Product Designer

BoostDraft

Product Designer developing user-centric legal drafting experiences at BoostDraft. Collaborating with cross-functional teams and driving design innovation for global expansion.

Posted 6/29/2026full-timeRemote • 🇯🇵 JapanMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Learn — Our users are niche experts with years of training. You’ll continuously map what feels like friction vs. delight to them — and how that ties to the mental models behind their professional habits.
Scale — What small change improves usability fastest? When should a component join the design system — for quality, and to help engineers ship faster? How do we bring a feature to a new market with minimal localization cost?
Innovate — What’s the minimum design that tests a new hypothesis or job-to-be-done? How can design unblock hard engineering iterations, or capture cleaner user feedback?
Validate — Shipping fast isn’t enough. You’ll define the quantitative and qualitative signals that tell us whether an improvement worked, build conviction from the result, and share it back with the team.
Promote — The best features sell themselves, but a launch often needs a push. From time to time you may shape the assets, tone, and story that help our commercial team bring a new feature to market.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Craft & approach
- You obsess over the user problem before jumping to solutions — going deep with first-hand research where you can, and triangulating feedback from multiple sources (NPS, metrics, social, etc.).
- You own the **end-to-end design process** — from framing the problem to validating the solution — and move fast to test hypotheses and avoid sunk cost.
- You have strong interaction and UX skills, and you’re passionate about solving real user problems in a way that feels **delightful**, not just usable.
- You’re fluent in modern tools like Figma for specs and storytelling, and you reach for **AI tools to prototype, validate direction, and pressure-test interaction flows** — because you believe great designers are great builders too.
- You understand design systems and component-based design, and how to use them to resolve user pain and help engineers ship faster.
- You can write a clear research brief and build on the thinking of stakeholders, PMs, and engineering leads.
Experience
- Around **3 years** in a product design role (an internet/digital-first product, or a strong agency/consultancy) that shipped real software still in use today.
- Worked cross-functionally with PMs, engineers, and researchers — or with clients and business stakeholders.
- Owned gathering user insights, quantitative and qualitative, and turned them into design decisions with clear trade-offs.
- **Nice to have**: scaling a product from one market to several with different languages/cultures; SaaS or early-stage startup experience; and some comfort with marketing or brand design, which this role may occasionally involve.
Language
- Professional working proficiency in English, used at a business level in a previous role.
- Experience adapting design for East Asian language localization is a plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

How we work
We prioritize quality over quantity, and we’re engineering-first: around 60% of the team are software engineers, many from companies like Microsoft, IBM, HTC, Yahoo!, and NTT R&D. We build an environment that trusts and empowers the people closest to the work.
We’re fully remote and expanding globally. Our HQ is in Japan, but relocation isn’t required — if you’d like to move to Japan, we’ll help with your visa.
Working arrangement
Fully remote (optional in-person a few times a month for those near Tokyo).
Flexible hours — Flex: 6:00–11:30am / 3:00–10:00pm JST (work when you want within these windows); Core: 11:30am–3:00pm JST.
A virtual office where you create a character and interact with colleagues.
The details
Location: home, or anywhere equivalent (an occasional company-designated location is possible for business reasons).
Holidays: 5-day work week (Sat, Sun, public holidays, year-end/New Year, and others set by the company).
Employment: full-time, permanent (fixed overtime pay included).
Probation: 6 months.
Passive-smoking prevention: yes.
Additional details shared during the hiring process.

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Hard Skills & Tools

User ResearchInteraction DesignUX DesignDesign SystemsComponent-Based DesignPrototypingHypothesis TestingQuantitative AnalysisQualitative AnalysisDesign Validation

Soft Skills

Problem SolvingCollaborationCommunicationAdaptabilityCreativity