Everlaw is looking for a highly-motivated and self-starter product designer with meticulous attention to detail and a process-driven mindset to lead the design of Bluebook, Everlaw’s design system. 

You will combine your drive for pixel-perfection with a pragmatic approach that strikes the right balance between flexibility and robustness in the components you create. Your product mindset and focus on collaboration will be the primary driver behind our design system’s roadmap. Your work will matter — the experience you design for using Bluebook will streamline the front-end development process and make it more intuitive to design for Everlaw, resulting in a more modern, consistent, and accessible experience for Everlaw users.

You will be a part of our Product organization which guides the strategy and development of our products. We deliver value to our users by setting our product roadmap and executing on high-quality product development with efficiency and keen attention to what users need. Our products serve as the fundamental driver of value to our users, and support the success of our business. We take pride in not only creating a powerful and intuitive user experience, but in supporting users with our product documentation and certification program. 

At Everlaw, our mission is to promote justice by illuminating truth. Our company culture is open and democratic and we’re committed to the professional growth of our team members, offering an annual learning and development stipend and regular check-ins with managers regarding career goals. If you’re looking for a place that values passion, integrity, thinking big, and a desire to learn, we’d love to hear from you! Think you’re missing some of the skills and are hesitant to apply? We do not believe in the ‘perfect’ candidate and encourage you to apply if you feel you can bring value to our team.  

This is a full-time on-site position located in Oakland, California.

Getting started

• We want you to feel like part of the team early on! Our onboarding process will integrate you into the company with informative sessions on our product, policies, processes, and team structure and goals
• We’re excited for you to learn, grow, and contribute right away! We trust that you’ll bring experience and knowledge that will uplevel the team and our product, but we don’t expect you to know everything on Day 1

In your role, you'll...

• Become product certified! You will learn the ins and outs of the Everlaw platform through a series of training modules
• Design and define interaction patterns through components, documentation, and prototypes
• Provide respectful, insightful, and actionable feedback to other designers’ components and platform feature work to ensure an elegant and cohesive user experience
• Ensure an effective and accessible implementation of a high-quality design system through regular collaboration with Engineering partners
• Audit and revise the component library on an ongoing basis to ensure it remains production-ready, meets our standards, and remains an effective tool
• Design increasingly complex and overarching components with the big picture in mind while caring for the small details and their downstream impact
• Partner with product designers to identify gaps in the platform, and advocate for additions to the design system roadmap that will address them
• Act as an owner for building and maintaining Bluebook, Everlaw’s design system, setting the vision and the standards for brand alignment, quality, consistency, and accessibility
• Improve our design and product development processes by collaborating with the teams and using your process-driven mindset to address inefficiencies
• Be a passionate ambassador for our design system, championing standards and accessibility within the Product Design team and cross-functionally on Everlaw-wide initiatives

About you

• You have a history of elevating design teams through systems work that are user-centered and effective, while appropriately addressing and reducing downstream impacts
• You’re comfortable defining and championing processes that make both Product Design and Engineering teams more effective
• You have strong expertise in governing and scaling a design system
• You combine your exemplary design skills, critical thinking skills, and systems thinking to thoughtfully and creatively craft solutions to complex problems
• You highly value feedback and collaboration. You believe that good ideas can come from anywhere, you are thankful for others calling out when a solution might not work and will exercise good judgment and iterate accordingly. You also believe that developing features requires teamwork, careful coordination, and clear communication
• You think in terms of systems and consider their long-term usage. You can distill designs into shareable components, patterns, and behaviors
• You are a self-starter who is comfortable navigating ambiguity and driven to ensure your work is implemented efficiently
• You are familiar with front-end development frameworks like React, HTML, and CSS that enables you to represent the Product Design team and work effectively with the Engineering team

Pluses

• You have at least 5 years designing experiences for B2B SaaS products, including 3 years designing for a B2B SaaS design system
• You have an aptitude for strategic product thinking that makes you a distinguished partner to the Product Design and Engineering teams
• You have experience creating visual assets such as illustrations and icon families
• You have experience leading design sprints and workshops
• You have experience advocating for accessibility and can advise on coding practices with accessibility in mind

Benefits

• The expected salary range for this role is between $140,000.00 - $180,000.00. The final offered salary will be dependent upon many factors including the candidate’s experience and skills. The base pay range is subject to change in the future.
• Equity program
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
• Health, dental, and vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses
• Paid parental leave and approximately 10 days (80 hours) per year of sick leave
• Seventeen paid vacation days plus 11 federal holidays
• Membership to Modern Health to help employees prioritize mental health and wellness
• Annual allocation for Learning & Development opportunities and applicable professional membership dues
• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
• Find out more about our Benefits and Perks

Perks

• Work in Uptown Oakland, just steps from the BART line and dozens of restaurants and walking distance to Lake Merritt
• Flexible work-from-home days on Tuesdays and Fridays
• Monthly home internet reimbursement
• Select your preference of hardware (Mac or PC) and customize your desk setup
• Enjoy a wide variety of snacks and beverages in the office
• Bond over company-wide out-of-the-box events and fun activities with your team
• Time off for company-sponsored volunteer events and 4 paid hours per quarter to volunteer at a charitable organization of your choice
• Take advantage of learning and career development opportunities 
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