Head of Design / Principle Designer

About [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] is reinventing legal drafting with a local Microsoft Word add-in that automates tedious formatting and elevates lawyers' day-to-day work. Founded by MIT and Stanford alumni, we've grown to 10,000+ paying users and earned adoption at 17 of Japan's top 20 law firms—mostly through word-of-mouth, profitability, and without external funding until January, 2025.

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Why you should join [REDACTED]

• You can enjoy the whole process of product market fit, and scale the business
• A lot of opportunities to learn from the founders / management, including leveraging our Japan experience and product development
• International environment with significant challenges to be met every day
• Lots of opportunities to interact with industry leaders who are focused on delivering products that offer exceptional user experiences
• You will use the latest technologies and will be encouraged to bring your flair to the role

What's your challenges

Drive user insight through rapid exploration

• Own and lead our user research practice, with a strong bias toward early, prototype-driven user testing.
• Default to using AI-assisted prototyping to quickly explore ideas, validate assumptions, and surface risks before engineering investment.
• Turn ambiguous feedback and fragmented requests into clear hypotheses, prototypes, and learnings that guide product direction.

Set the bar for product design

• Define and evolve our design philosophy and principles, including how we balance speed vs. polish and AI-enabled workflows vs. traditional processes.
• Ensure design decisions are grounded in evidence from real users, not opinions or hierarchy.

Make design a force multiplier

• Build, scale, and maintain a design system that enc…