Design Program Manager
Core
Establish the operating system for a growing product design team, bringing structure, visibility, and predictability to how AI-powered litigation tools are designed.
Role type
Design Program Manager (first hire)
Builds
Design operating model, planning and delivery systems, working interfaces between Design/Product/Engineering/Research, lightweight operations rhythms, and reporting layers.
Domain
Legal Tech / AI-powered litigation tools / Enterprise B2B SaaS
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Design Program Management, Design Operations, stakeholder prioritization, design readiness criteria, cross-functional interface management, resource bandwidth tracking, user-centered design methodologies, Figma, project tracking tools (Jira), AI tools (Cursor, Claude Design)
Preferred skills
Communication and storytelling, translating design progress to business narratives, low-ego collaborative style
Technologies
Figma, Jira, Cursor, Claude Design
Responsibilities
Define how design work is estimated, sequenced, and handed off; coordinate pre-launch quality reviews; define working interfaces between Design, Product, Engineering, and Research; build and champion lightweight design operations frameworks; manage design resourcing and bandwidth tracking; build and maintain reporting layers for leadership planning.
Seniority
Mid-Senior, hands-on IC
