Staff Web Designer

Harvey Harvey · AI Frontier · New York, NY · Marketing

Staff Web Designer for a legal AI company, responsible for defining and elevating the design experience across their web-facing surfaces. This role involves owning and evolving the website design system, leading user research and testing, and partnering with web engineers, motion designers, and product marketing to deliver end-to-end design solutions. The designer will also mentor junior designers and leverage AI tools to enhance design workflows and explore new interaction paradigms.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own and evolve the website design system—establishing scalable patterns, component libraries, and governance standards that maintain consistency and accelerate delivery across all web surfaces.
  2. Lead the end-to-end design process for web projects, from concept and user research through interaction design, prototyping, and detailed technical specification hand-off to web engineers and motion designers.
  3. Drive innovation through exploration, prototyping, and user testing to continuously improve user experience, conversion, and accessibility across [harvey.ai](http://harvey.ai) and related properties.
  4. Mentor junior web designers, embedding best practices around responsive design, accessibility, and design-system governance to raise the team's collective quality bar.
  5. Leverage AI tools and emerging technologies to accelerate design workflows, explore new interaction paradigms, and push the boundary of what a best-in-class legal AI website can be.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of professional design experience with a significant focus on web and digital product design
  • Portfolio showcasing mastery of user experience design, interaction design, responsive web design, and design-system architecture
  • Deep expertise in systems thinking—building, scaling, and governing design systems
  • Strong command of modern design tools (e.g., Figma)
  • Comfort working at the intersection of design and front-end development
  • Demonstrated ability to leverage AI-assisted design workflows
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills

Nice to have

  • providing pixel-level specifications and technical hand-offs
  • track record of raising quality and velocity in fast-paced, high-growth environments

What the JD emphasized

  • staff or senior-staff level
  • AI tools and emerging technologies
  • AI-assisted design workflows