Lead UX Designer (AI / LegalTech)

Senior, Staff, Lead, or Principal level designer. Great relevant experience is more important than high seniority.

You will report to the CEO.

Do you have experience in Web accessibility?, Core Requirements

• 3+ years designing SaaS or workflow products (portfolio required).
• Ability and experience using AI for design (especially prototypes).
• Proven record of shipping data-dense or professional-grade tools and improving a key metric (conversion, NPS, retention).
• Experience designing generative AI workflows and strong knowledge of the AI tools/techniques and how they fit with workflows.
• Expertise in Figma (auto-layout, variants, prototyping).
• Basic grasp of front-end constraints (React components, CSS, accessibility).

Soft Skills

• Clear, concise communicator, low words : insights ratio.
• Ownership mindset: you do what you say and surface risks early.
• Ability to work well with ambiguity and low amounts of process & collaborate with others, and we ship fast and iteratively.
• Excellent problem solving capabilities.

Passion & Dedication

• Genuine excitement for AI and building category-defining products.
• Fantastic work ethic & ability to take on a very demanding role (similar culture to xAI, Amazon, Figure, etc.).

Nice-to-Haves

• LegalTech experience / understanding of legal workflows.
• Comfort running user research and turning findings into IA and interaction patterns.
• An interest in running tests but a great eye for likely outcomes.
• Deep understanding of generative AI from an engineering perspective.
• Motion design chops (Lottie / After Effects) or ability to contribute to front-end code.
• Design degree.

Pulled from the full job description

• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance, * Base Salary: $140,000 - $185,000
• Meaningful equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage + Life Insurance
• PTO + company holidays

Why Join StrongSuit?

• Build on the cutting edge of the most transformative tech since . . . fire?
• Lead our design for a company that believes purpose-built designs is its competitive advantage.
• Work alongside an engineering team that ships in the top 5% of startups and see your work come to life.
• Tackle high-impact, challenging hard problems that competitors avoid.
• Reap outsized rewards in equity and professional growth.

We're at the start of the most consequential technology shift in a generation, and the trillion-dollar legal industry sits squarely in its path. StrongSuit is building the legal-native AI platform that transforms litigation; we've raised $13M since 2023 and just won Legal Research Platform of the Year. StrongSuit is a deeply integrated, end-to-end platform, spanning legal research, drafting, fact and timeline organization, discovery, and an agentic Assistant, all organized around a single legal matter, where insights from one workflow feed the rest. We are making a big bet on purpose-built, interactive, visual, iterative workflows while most of the rest of the industry is betting on the command-line. The most critical key to our success is amazing design. We work hard, ship fast, and win together. Your Role We're searching for a designer who: * Turns frontier AI into intuitive lawyer workflows, reducing cognitive load & driving elegance and consistency across our platform. * Treats craft and speed as inseparable. Rapidly prototype, user-test, polish, and ship. * Owns the end-to-end design stack: research IA wireframes hi-fi design QA. * Helps us rethink onboarding, training, and our "prosumer" sales funnel. * Wants to go "all-in" on a high-growth startup and thrives in ambiguous, 0 1 environments