Key skills
GoAILeadershipUser ResearchCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Role Overview
- Own and drive user-centered design strategy for a major domain surface at Harvey, in close partnership with Product and Engineering leadership. Identify new problems and opportunities rooted in user problems, working intimately with user research and data to propose paths forward
- For roadmap delivery, navigate trade-offs across scope, quality, and speed while maintaining a high bar for craft and outcomes. Proactively identify risks, unblock teams, and drive alignment across functions to ship high-quality work.
- Define and champion what “great” looks like for AI-powered professional workflows at Harvey.
- Set and maintain the craft bar across interaction design, systems thinking, content, and visual execution.
- Lead your teams to define bold product bets—especially where AI meaningfully changes how work gets done. Translate complex technical capabilities into simple, trustworthy, and intuitive user experiences that is world-class AI design
- Own org design, resourcing, and prioritization across multiple teams and initiatives.
- Build, lead, and grow a team of product designer ICs with strong craft, systems thinking, and product instincts.
- Drive strategic, visual and systems-oriented feedback for end-to-end flows and experiences to ensure they are simple and delightful.
- Champion process improvements that streamline team workflows, governance models, and cross-team collaboration, ensuring your domain/pillar scales efficiently.
- Partner with design, product, and engineering leaders to evolve Harvey’s design culture, processes, and operating model.
- Establish best practices for decision-making designing AI-powered products in high-trust, high-stakes environments.
- Partner closely with Design Ops, Research, Product Ops, and Engineering leadership to improve how teams work together.
- Represent design in high-stakes conversations with executive leadership.
Requirements
- 8
- 10+ years of experience in Product Design, with 5+ years directly managing product designers.
- Experience designing and shipping AI-powered or highly technical products.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating design leadership of high craft, complex products from concept through launch, with clear impact on users and the business.
- Excellent judgment—you know when to go deep, when to delegate, and when to push.
- Proven experience leading design strategy and execution in close partnership with Product and Engineering.
- Demonstrated ability to define and ship high-quality experiences in complex, ambiguous problem spaces.
- Strong product instincts—you can zoom out to strategy and zoom in to details with equal confidence.
- Deep commitment to growing people and raising the craft bar across a team.
- Comfort operating in fast-moving environments with evolving priorities.
- Exceptional communication skills and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- A growth mindset, resilience, and a bias toward learning through doing.
- Empathy—for users, teammates, and the realities of high-stakes professional work.
- Strong people leadership instincts with a bias toward clarity, empathy, and accountability.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%)
- Flexible PTO