Transform your approach to litigation and investigations. Everlaw powers your legal teams and the AI tools they use. Backed by a16z and Menlo.
About the role
As a Design Program Manager at Everlaw, you'll establish the operating system for our growing product design team, bringing structure, visibility, and predictability to how we design AI-powered litigation tools. As our first dedicated Design Program Manager, you'll absorb operational friction and cross-functional complexity so product designers can focus entirely on craft, quality, and solving complex user workflows.
What they're looking for
- You have at least 5 years of experience in Design Program Management or Design Operations supporting product design teams in complex, enterprise B2B SaaS or data-heavy environments
- You excel at balancing competing priorities across multiple stakeholders, steering teams through ambiguity with structure, clear prioritization, and empathy
- You've built and scaled lightweight design operations frameworks, delivery plans, and resource tracking processes without stifling creative momentum
- You bring excellent communication and storytelling skills, with a proven ability to translate design progress and complex trade-offs into business-relevant narratives for leadership
- You bring a strong understanding of user-centered design methodologies, modern UX workflows, and tools like Figma
- You have experience working with project tracking tools like Jira or emerging AI tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Design)
More about this role
As a Design Program Manager at Everlaw, you'll establish the operating system for our growing product design team, bringing structure, visibility, and predictability to how we design AI-powered litigation tools. As our first dedicated Design Program Manager, you'll absorb operational friction and cross-functional complexity so product designers can focus entirely on craft, quality, and solving complex user workflows.
This is a full-time, exempt position based in our Oakland, CA office with a hybrid work schedule: in office M/W/Th with the option to work from home on Tu/Fr.
- Own the design operating model for planning and delivery — define how design work is estimated, sequenced, and handed off, and maintain the system that makes dependencies and timeline risk visible before they become escalations.
- Define design readiness criteria and coordinate pre-launch quality reviews to ensure shipped features meet high standards for craft, responsiveness, accessibility, and edge cases.
- Own the working interfaces between Design, Product Management, Engineering, User Research, and Technical Writing — define how scope is agreed, how dependencies are tracked, and where conflicts get...
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