Senior UX Designer

Job Description

Join Our Team at Litera: Where Legal Technology Meets Excellence

Litera has been at the forefront of legal technology innovation for over 25 years, crafting legal software to amplify impact and maximize efficiency. Developed by the best legal minds in the industry, our comprehensive suite of integrated legal tools is both powerful and user-friendly and simplifies the way modern firms manage core legal workflows, secure collaboration, and organize firm knowledge and experience. Every day, we help more than 2.3 million legal professionals focus on their craft. Litera: Less busy work, more of your life’s work.

Overview: The Senior UX Designer leads the end-to-end design process, from discovery to delivery. This role involves understanding users through customer feedback, research findings, and analytics, and collaborating with product managers and developers to advocate for user needs. The ideal candidate will have strong UX design discovery and interviewing skills, experience with design systems, and fluency with tools like Figma or Sketch & InVision .

Key Responsibilities:

• Strive to understand users through customer feedback, research findings, and analytics.

• Partner with product managers and developers to provide input on our roadmap by advocating for user needs.

• Plan and facilitate workshops for the pod using design thinking and sprint principles.

• Collaboratively scope and phase each feature into smaller value slices and evaluate feasibility from a design perspective.

• Explore and experiment with various design options within constraints.

• Collaborate with UX researchers to observe feedback sessions and conduct usability testing for your own designs.

*Delivery:

• Create compelling flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and UI mockups while keeping in mind the overall architecture and experience of the system.

• Ensure designs are well documented for developers, answer questions around edge cases, and tweak things as needed during a release cycle.

• Ensure your POD is delivering thoughtful and delightful user experiences.

• Involved in post-launch testing to continue iterating on enhancements.

*Overall:

•  Contribute to our design system for the overall success and coherence of the product.

•  Be an advocate and educator for good design practices within Litera.

Qualifications:

• 4+ years experience as a Product Designer in a SaaS product role, B2B or B2C.

• Agile Scrum experience.

• A strong understanding of the end-to-end design process from user research to wireframing and prototyping.

• Fluency with tools like Figma or Sketch & InVision .

• Design System (MUI React) experience.

• Strong UX Design Discovery and interviewing skills (Design Thinking).

• Bachelor's degree.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

• Excellent problem-solving skills.

• Attention to detail and a strong sense of design aesthetics.

• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines.

Why Join Litera?

• The company culture: We emphasize helping each other grow, doing the right thing always, and being part of a journey to amplify impact, creating an exciting and fulfilling work environment

• Commitment to Employees: Our people commitment is based on what employees love most about being part of the team, focusing on tools that matter to the difference-makers in the legal world and amplifying their impact

• Global, Dynamic, and Diverse Team: Our is a global company with ambitious goals and unlimited opportunities, offering a dynamic and diverse work environment where employees can grow, listen, empathize, and problem-solve together

• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Experience peace of mind with our health insurance, retirement savings plans, generous paid time off, and a supportive work-life balance. We invest in your well-being and future, ensuring a rewarding career journey.

• Career Growth and Development: We provide career paths and opportunities for professional development, allowing employees to progress through various technical and leadership roles