Harvey

Director, Product Design

Harvey

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California • United States

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Salary

💰 $213,000 - $288,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Own and drive design strategy across multiple product pillars, ensuring a cohesive, high-quality end-to-end experience.
  • 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 are world-class AI design.
  • Own org design, resourcing, and prioritization across multiple teams and initiatives.
  • Build, lead, and grow a team of senior product designers 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 in designing AI-powered products in high-trust, high-stakes environments.
  • Represent design in high-stakes conversations with executive leadership.

Requirements

  • 10-12+ years of experience in Product Design, with 7+ years directly managing product designers.
  • Experience designing and shipping AI-powered or highly technical products across multiple product areas or a large platform.
  • 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 senior Product and Engineering.
  • Demonstrated ability to define and ship high-quality experiences in complex, ambiguous problem spaces with velocity
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Offers Equity
  • Offers Bonus
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Product DesignAI-powered product designInteraction designSystems thinkingVisual executionDesign strategyUser experience designDesign leadershipPortfolio developmentComplex product design
Soft Skills
JudgmentLeadershipCommunicationInfluenceGrowth mindsetResilienceEmpathyAccountabilityCollaborationProblem-solving