Senior Product Designer

About Us

UniCourt is a Legal Data as a Service (LDaaS) company dedicated to unlocking the potential of court data for Am Law 200 firms and Fortune 500 companies. Delivered via the only API-first platform in the legal technology market, UniCourt provides real-time state and federal court data for legal analytics. Our proprietary technology turns disparate court records into accessible, actionable insights. The UniCourt Enterprise API is the gold standard in legal data delivery, powering data-driven revenue growth and client satisfaction strategies.

Our company creates some of the world’s most cutting-edge software solutions for legal data. We solve difficult problems, work on innovative technology, and build world-class API platforms for people and enterprises to interact with legal data and other public data sets. 

Position Summary

Making products that are easy to use for customers is core to UniCourts DNA. As a senior product designer for UniCourt, you will be part of the critical team that is shaping UniCourt’s new products and offerings. You will have the rare opportunity to help shape the design direction of early stage products, apply your skills in a dynamic environment and frequently iterate on your vision.  

What You’ll Do:

• Own, along with your team, a large product area and translate vision, feedback, and ideas into high-quality product designs

• Collaborate closely with other designers, engineers, and product managers, as well as marketing, sales, and customer success team members

• Work with flexibility and autonomy to identify the most feasible design direction, process, and tools to use depending on project constraints and available data, while maintaining our standards of quality

• Design iteratively, from sketches to wireframes to high fidelity, to continually facilitate team alignment on design choices

• Build prototypes, design websites, brochures and other marketing assets that help tell the story of our products

• Make decisions with awareness of common practices like user research techniques, job stories, agile methodologies, content strategy, prototyping, and experimentation

• Regularly participate in or lead feedback and ideation sessions internally and with clients to continuously improve our design practices, frameworks, products, and company

• Have a focus on taking initiative, constantly learning, and improving

What You Bring:

• Solid experience with the entire product design process, from research and problem discovery through to detailed interaction and visual design

• Experience designing solutions that involve creating data views from large amounts of data

• Familiarity working within and designing for systems that have a deep integrated technical stack, rather than isolated features.

• A user centric, solution driven and methodical approach to problem solving

• Strong communication and facilitation skills, and the ability to clearly express ideas, present your point of view, and give kind and direct feedback

• The desire to collaborate and prioritize building trusting relationships

• Comfort working towards measurable outcomes in a fast-paced and dynamic environment

• Ability and familiarity working within complex technical constraints

• Experience working with AI or ML-based projects

Qualifications:

• Minimum 7 years of experience working as a product designer.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field preferred.

• Include a portfolio, website, or any other link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions)

• Have previously launched at least one product from concept to launch, owning all the stages of product design, including user discovery, ideation, wireframing, prototyping, iterative launches and feedback incorporation.

• Highly skilled with various design tools, including Figma, Adobe PS, Miro, 

What Success Looks Like:

30 days:

• You have a complete understanding of UniCourt’s technology, current product functionality and roadmap.

60 days:

• You will independently lead design sessions for UniCourt’s flagship product and can visualize improvements to UniCourt’s core products.

90 days:

• You will own UniCourt’s design vision that aligns with our product roadmap, and independently break it down into iterative milestones through your discussions with engineering and product managers.