Product Design Engineer

• We operate as a focused, senior, high-output group inside Filevine
• We move quickly, ship directly into Word and the browser, and define how AI shows up across the contract lifecycle for thousands of legal teams
• Design is central to everything we do
• Lawyers notice every detail, and their trust depends on the quality and clarity of the experience we build
• You’ll talk to customers, sit in on review sessions, and map real workflows
• Translate ambiguous product requirements into clear flows, UI patterns, and prototypes
• Design and implement UI surfaces across Word add-ins and the web app
• Build high-fidelity mocks that communicate ideas quickly to founders and engineers
• Write production-quality React and TypeScript to improve UX without waiting on engineering
• Define and maintain the design system, visual language, and interaction patterns
• Simplify multi-step legal workflows into intuitive, compact interfaces
• Validate ideas directly with users and iterate quickly based on feedback
• Identify UX gaps, propose changes, and drive them from concept to shipped feature
• Redesigning the Word add-in pane to reduce vertical layers and improve action discoverability
• Mapping user contract-review workflows and turning them into cleaner UI flows
• Building a new design system that brings consistency to actions, drawers, modals, and toolbars
• Prototyping a small-screen version of a complex playbook editor
• Simplifying the view: progress bars, action bars, multi-document navigation
• Improving the UI/UX based on customer interviews
• Designing and implementing an updated clause-analysis UX with fewer steps and clearer decisions

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance
• Competitive & Fair Pay
• Short & long-term disability
• Maternity & Paternity leave
• Centrally located open office in Sugar House
• Company swag that will make your friends envious
• Opportunity to make an impact on Day 1

Preferred experience

• Bias toward action: you see something broken, you fix it
• Ability to create polished mocks and prototypes without a dedicated designer
• Comfort working in a fast-moving environment with incomplete inputs
• Experience owning both design and engineering for a feature end to end
• Deep product taste and strong user empathy
• Bonus: experience with AI products, legal workflows, or highly technical interfaces
• Ability to run lightweight research: user interviews, workflow mapping, usability tests
• Experience designing for constrained interfaces (plugins, iOS, add-ins, extensions)
• Strong frontend engineering skills in React/TypeScript