Director, Product Design
Harvey
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $213,000 - $288,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Own and drive design strategy across multiple product pillars, ensuring a cohesive, high-quality end-to-end experience
- 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
- 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 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Product DesignAI-powered product designInteraction designSystems thinkingVisual executionUser researchDesign strategyDesign leadershipPortfolio developmentComplex problem solving
Soft Skills
Excellent judgmentStrong product instinctsExceptional communicationInfluencing senior stakeholdersGrowth mindsetResilienceEmpathyAccountabilityClarityTeam leadership