Senior Director, Product Design

Everlaw is looking for a Head of Product Design to lead, mentor, and scale our Product Design team. This is a critical leadership position where you'll be responsible for hiring and developing a high-performing design leadership team, elevating our design practices, and ensuring your teams deliver elegant, intuitive, and effective solutions that drive significant value for our users and the business. If you are a visionary, people-first leader with extensive design and management experience, we invite you to join us in fostering an environment where our designers can be leaders who do their best work and make a lasting impact.

About Everlaw

Everlaw's mission is to promote justice by illuminating truth. Our platform helps legal professionals uncover information and insight, supporting law firms, corporations, government agencies, and non-profit organizations in their investigation and litigation work. The Product Design team is at the forefront of this mission, shaping the future of our industry with a commitment to creating powerful, user-friendly, and innovative solutions. We take pride in our dedication to not only designing an exceptional product but also in building a strong culture of user-centered design across the company.

At Everlaw, we are driven by passion, integrity, curiosity, and a desire to make a difference. We offer a vibrant, open company culture and support our team’s growth through an annual learning and development stipend, regular career check-ins, and a commitment to fostering each team member's professional journey. We believe in building a diverse and inclusive team, and we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification listed.

This is a full-time position based in our Oakland, California office with a hybrid work schedule: in the office Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with the option to work from home Tuesday and Friday.

The Opportunity

As the Head of Product Design, you will be a key leader in the product organization, driving our long-term design strategy and building a world-class team. Your leadership will directly influence the user experience of our product and the growth of our people. 

In your role, you will:

• Build & Grow a High-Performing Team: Provide hands-on coaching, mentorship, and career pathing to your Product Design management team to grow their impact and careers. Elevate design excellence by championing best-in-class design practices and fostering a culture of continuous learning. Scale the team through strategic hiring, effective onboarding, and strong organizational design.
• Own a Design Vision: Define and articulate the product design strategy and vision across our core product, aligning it with company-wide objectives and translating it into a clear, actionable plan. You will reinforce this through feedback and collaboration with your team.
• Demonstrate Strategic Leadership: You will make strategic decisions to drive impact in alignment with Everlaw's goals. You'll apply your problem-solving skills and judgment to navigate complex strategic challenges to ensure Everlaw is well positioned for long term success.
• Set Clear Expectations: You'll set clear goals and define roles and responsibilities to ensure your team knows what success looks like and how to achieve it.
• Reinforce Accountability: Ensure strong performance and behavioral alignment across your team. You will be responsible for creating rhythms of accountability, rewarding strong performance, and addressing under-performance and behavioral gaps to maintain a healthy team culture.
• Exhibit People Leadership: You will serve as a model for how to work with, lead, and motivate others. You'll collaborate with senior leaders across Engineering, Product, and GTM teams, and you'll use your influence and communication skills to manage change and champion our values.

About you

• You have at least 10 years of experience in a product-focused design role.
• You have at least 5 years of experience managing and mentoring teams, including people leaders, with a track record of scaling and developing high-performing teams.
• You have direct experience driving strategic business outcomes through design for enterprise SaaS products. 
• You possess exceptional strategic thinking and execution skills, capable of translating high-level vision into tactical plans while maintaining a focus on detail.
• You are a seasoned leader with a strong ability to influence and align diverse stakeholders, from individual contributors to executive leadership.
• You have a deep understand