Product Designer (Full-remote)

About BoostDraft

BoostDraft enables legal professionals and the teams they work with to radically save time in drafting and reviewing transactional documents (e.g., contracts). Founded by MIT and Stanford grads, BoostDraft is already used by all 5 major law firms in Japan, law firms in the USA, and is rapidly expanding its user base among corporate users globally. Inspired by programming IDEs, BoostDraft applies various automation, UX, and AI principles that help software engineers scale to document creation. Not only is BoostDraft a user-centric company centered around software engineering, but BoostDraft also has a dynamic and diverse team from all walks of life, creating a melting pot for innovation and growth.

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Background & Traction

We are currently focusing on lawyers who draft relatively standardized but long documents, such as contracts. Only three years after our product launch, we already have more than 10,000 actively paid users. We have several long-term, large-scale contracts with famed enterprises and law firms. As a result, we have achieved significant success, including profitability and exponential growth, all while relying on no external funding for nearly four years.

Why BoostDraft?

At BoostDraft, we prioritize quality over quantity. As an engineering-focused company, around 70% of our team members are software engineers with extensive experience from companies such as Microsoft, Google, IBM, Yahoo!, and R&D in NTT. Our CEO, Yohei, who has proven experience in both Software Engineering and Business management, has built an organization that values and empowers software engineers.

At BoostDraft, we offer:

• A wealth of real-world applications in NLP/GenAI/DL/ML with access to practical and sensitive data. Currently, our platform serves over 10,000 active users, entrusted with confidential document creation.
• Focus on R&D for new technology: We heavily focus on research for knowledge extraction leveraging user data
• An Engineering-first approach: The CEO is also a software engineer and over 70% of members are software engineers. We believe in empowering our engineers and providing them with the resources they need to succeed.
• Rapid organic growth : We have experienced 300% revenue growth in 2023, are profitable, and have achieved this without outside investment.

BoostDraft was accepted by prestigious accelerator program: 

• MassChallenge (Top 30 US accelerator)
• StartX (Stanford Accelerator, 7% acceptance rate)
• MIT Sandbox (Accelerator of Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Your challenges as a Product Designer

Learn: Our core customers are niche users with many years of academic training. You need to continuously develop an understanding of what is friction and what is delight for them, and how that relates to the mental models that govern their professional habits.

Scale: What incremental change could we make quickly to improve usability? Where and how should we standardize a design system component not only for better quality but to help our engineering teams ship faster? How can we introduce an existing feature to a new market with minimal localization cost?

Innovate: What is the minimum design that fits the core hypothesis when we expand to a new JTBD? How can we use design to unblock difficult engineering iterations? How can design be used to create more accuracy through seamless user feedback?

Promote: The best features sell themselves, but more often than not, an initial boost is required. What content and assets should we use for product marketing? What should be the language and tone of a brand new feature? How can we package these to enhance the storytelling of our commercial team members?

Validate: Shipping fast isn’t enough. What would you introduce as quantitative and qualitative trackers to validate the user reaction of your improvements? Success or failure, you need to use that to build your conviction and regularly share that back with the wider team.

Core skills

• You have strong interaction and UX design skills, and can apply many modern methodologies to help yourself and your team.
• You are proficient with using modern design tools (e.g., Figma) for creating specs as well as storytelling.
• You are devoted to validating a hypothesis quickly with user flows and prototypes at the appropriate fidelity to avoid sunk cost.
• You can be relied on to create user research briefs and/or expand on the thinking of the stakeholder, Product Manager, and engineering lead.
• You obsess over collecting feedback and can dissect large qualitative data from multiple sources (NPS, Social, Rating, etc.).
• You have a solid understanding of design systems and component-based design and how to use them to resolve user pain as well as help software engineering ship faster.

Depth of expertise

• 3-5 years of experience in a Product Design role at an internet economy, digital-first, or digital agency/consultancy, that resulted in shipping real software products (still running today).
• Worked cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, and researchers or with clients, 3rd-party consultants, and business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ownership and independence in a role where you had to spearhead gathering of user insights, both quantitative and qualitative, and translate them into design decisions with clear trade-offs.
• (Preferred) Experience in launching a product in one local market and then successfully scaling it to multiple countries with different language/culture.
• (Preferred) Experience in building SAAS software or working in an early-state startup.

Language Requirement

• Proficiency in English and has used it at a working level in another role at a business level.
• Experience in adjusting design for Eastern language localization preferred.

IMPORTANT:

For interview consideration, please include your portfolio showcasing real-world shipped products and design rationale.

Visa and Relocation

Our teams are working fully remotely, and we are expanding our global presence. While our headquarters are currently in Japan, relocation to Japan is not mandatory. If you wish to relocate, we are happy to help you obtain a visa.

Working Arrangement

• Fully remote

※For employees residing near Tokyo, there may be opportunities to work in person several times a month

• Flexible working time
• Flexible time: 6:00 am - 11:30 am / 3:00 pm - 10:00 pm
• Core time: 11:30 am - 3:00 pm
• Virtual Office
• You'll have the ability to craft a character within a virtual office environment and engage with fellow colleagues through interactive experiences

Others
<Location>
Home, or any other place equivalent to home
※There is a possibility of commuting to a location designated by the company due to business reasons

<Holidays>
5-day work week (Saturday, Sunday, Public Holidays / End of Year and New Year holidays (set by company) / others set by company)

<Employment Status>
Full-time (Fixed overtime pay included)
※permanent employment

<Probation Period>
6 months

<Prevention of Passive Smoking>
Yes

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