Staff Web Designer
Job Description
Harvey is seeking a Staff Web Designer to help define and elevate the design experience across harvey.ai and other web-facing surfaces. This onsite role in San Francisco brings together design systems leadership, hands-on UX and interaction design, and cross-functional collaboration to raise the quality bar while improving user experience, conversion, and accessibility.
As a member of the Web team, you will own and evolve the website design system, lead end-to-end web design execution from early research through technical specification hand-off, and partner with web engineers and motion designers to deliver complete web experiences. You will also explore emerging technologies and AI-assisted workflows to accelerate design delivery and continue pushing interaction and experience quality forward.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the website design system, establishing scalable patterns, component libraries, and governance standards that keep web surfaces consistent and speed delivery.
- Lead the end-to-end design process for web projects, including concept and user research, interaction design, prototyping, and detailed technical specification hand-off to web engineers and motion designers.
- Drive continuous improvement through exploration, prototyping, and user testing, focusing on user experience, conversion, and accessibility across harvey.ai and related properties.
- Mentor junior web designers by embedding best practices for responsive design, accessibility, and design-system governance.
- Run design demos and present work to marketing leadership and other cross-functional stakeholders, clearly articulating design rationale.
- Use AI tools and emerging technologies to accelerate workflows, explore new interaction paradigms, and support the creation of a best-in-class legal AI website experience.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional design experience with a strong focus on web and digital product design, including impact at a staff or senior-staff level.
- A portfolio demonstrating mastery across user experience design, interaction design, responsive web design, and design-system architecture.
- Deep systems thinking, with experience building, scaling, and governing design systems across multiple teams and use cases.
- Strong command of modern design tools, including Figma, plus comfort working at the design and front-end intersection through pixel-level specifications and technical hand-offs.
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted design workflows, with a track record of improving quality and velocity in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, including experience running design reviews, stakeholder demos, and cross-functional critiques.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- 401k match up to 4% and retirement benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Eligible to participate in the equity plan and benefits program
Employment type: Full time
Department: Marketing
Location: San Francisco, CA (onsite)
Compensation: USD $146,600 - $219,800 per year
Accommodations: Harvey is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Requests can be made by emailing [email protected].