Hybrid Director, Product Design

at Harvey

• Job title: Director, Product Design
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $213,000 - $288,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, New York City, United States

About the role

• Director of Product Design leading design strategy across multiple product pillars at Harvey. Implementing world-class AI design to enhance professional workflows for legal services.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive design strategy across multiple product pillars, ensuring a cohesive, high-quality end-to-end experience., in close partnership with Product and Engineering leadership.
• Identify new problems and opportunities rooted in user problems, working intimately with user research and data to propose paths forward
• For roadmap delivery, navigate trade-offs across scope, quality, and speed while maintaining a high bar for craft and outcomes.
• Proactively identify risks, unblock teams, and drive alignment across functions to ship high-quality work.
• Define and champion what “great” looks like for AI-powered professional workflows at Harvey.
• Set and maintain the craft bar across interaction design, systems thinking, content, and visual execution.
• Lead your teams to define bold product bets—especially where AI meaningfully changes how work gets done.
• Translate complex technical capabilities into simple, trustworthy, and intuitive user experiences that is world-class AI design
• Own org design, resourcing, and prioritization across multiple teams and initiatives.
• Build, lead, and grow a team of senior product designers with strong craft, systems thinking, and product instincts.
• Drive strategic, visual and systems-oriented feedback for end-to-end flows and experiences to ensure they are simple and delightful
• Champion process improvements that streamline team workflows, governance models, and cross-team collaboration, ensuring your domain/pillar scales efficiently.
• Partner with design, product, and engineering leaders to evolve Harvey’s design culture, processes, and operating model.
• Establish best practices for decision-making designing AI-powered products in high-trust, high-stakes environments.
• Partner closely with Design Ops, Research, Product Ops, and Engineering leadership to improve how teams work together.
• Represent design in high-stakes conversations with executive leadership.

Requirements

• 10-12+ years of experience in Product Design, with 7+ years directly managing product designers.
• Experience designing and shipping AI-powered or highly technical products across multiple product areas or a large platform.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating design leadership of high craft, complex products from concept through launch, with clear impact on users and the business.
• Excellent judgment—you know when to go deep, when to delegate, and when to push.
• Proven experience leading design strategy and execution in close partnership with senior Product and Engineering.
• Demonstrated ability to define and ship high-quality experiences in complex, ambiguous problem spaces with velocity
• Strong product instincts—you can zoom out to strategy and zoom in to details with equal confidence.
• Deep commitment to growing people and raising the craft bar across a team.
• Comfort operating in fast-moving environments with evolving priorities.
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• A growth mindset, resilience, and a bias toward learning through doing.
• Strong people leadership instincts with a bias toward clarity, empathy, and accountability.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
• Retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%)
• Flexible PTO