Product Design Manager - 232

About Rocket Lawyer

We believe everyone deserves access to affordable and simple legal services. 

Founded in 2008, Rocket Lawyer is the largest and most widely used online legal service platform in the world. With offices in North America and Europe, Rocket Lawyer has helped over 25 million people create over 50 million legal documents, and get their legal questions answered. 

We are in a unique position to enhance and expand the Rocket Lawyer platform to a scale never seen before in the company’s history, to capture audiences worldwide. We are expanding our team to take on this challenge! 

About the Role

Rocket Lawyer, the world’s first global legal platform, is looking for a Product Design Manager to help craft the future of our legal service experiences. Our international (headquartered in San Francisco), multi-disciplinary design team values collaboration, sharing ideas, and championing user-centered experiences across the organization. Product Design Managers at Rocket Lawyer are collaborative leaders who know how to have an impact on product roadmaps while also driving and inspiring a team of direct reports towards success. You mentor and bring out the best in your team by creating opportunities, eliminating roadblocks, and inspiring creativity.

In addition to driving impact through managing a small team of product designers, you will be responsible for expanding our mission’s reach through our enterprise product offerings. You will demonstrate excellence through execution and take projects from the whiteboard to final visual specifications. We believe in innovative hybrid designers who are fully capable of owning each stage of product design. The ideal candidate will have end-to-end design experience and have worked in teams that have launched successful B2B2C enterprise solutions.

Ours is a design-led organization that takes pride in shipping functional and engaging products. This is an opportunity to develop and define how small businesses and consumers get legal solutions anywhere, anytime. We are looking for a mobile-first design leader who has the UX chops to turn complicated processes into simple and effective experiences.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Know and deeply understand the product vision and business strategies
• Meet regularly with cross-functional peers to ensure work your team is engaged in aligns with business goals and release targets
• Lead and manage product designers whose skills range from senior to mid level
• Ensure consistency across processes and UI patterns within your team
• Collaborate with the product manager in shaping innovative experiences
• Lead cross-functional teams through hands-on product design ideation sessions
• Bring the voice of the customer into your everyday work through running user research, talking to customers, and leaning on personas in your designs
• Design storyboards, wireframes and high-fidelity mockups/prototypes of simple, engaging experiences that meet clear project goals and milestones
• Present designs to key stakeholders and product organization
• Deliver detailed, pixel perfect assets and specs to our front-end developers

Qualifications

• Experience with managing and helping designers level up in their careers
• Experience designing for responsive web and native mobile applications
• Excellent verbal communication skills in expressing design and product decisions to your team members
• Strong aptitude for giving and taking direction
• Approach problem solving with a positive attitude and eagerness to collaborate with your teammates
• Expert knowledge in user experience principles, graphic design and native mobile app standards
• Passion for user research and metrics that track product successes
• Strong portfolio demonstrating high-caliber visual and interaction design skills
• Mastery of the Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite or whatever tools you prefer to get the job done
• Authorization to work in the United States
• Minimum 5-8 years experience in UX/UI design

Preferred Qualifications / Personal Characteristics

• Native mobile app design experience
• Experience developing consumer or commercial native mobile or web application interfaces
• Working knowledge of interaction animation
• Detail oriented, driven and self-motivated

Benefits & Perks

• Comprehensive health plans (including Medical, Dental and Vision insurance for full-time employees)
• Unlimited PTO
• Competitive salary packages
• 401k program
• Life insurance
• Disability benefits
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter/Transit Program
• Your choice of a MAC or PC