Design Operations Manager

The role

The Design Operations Manager will partner with design and product leadership to structure the organization and set operating rhythms. You will own organizational structure, planning, prioritization, and the systems that keep the team moving.

What you will do

• Maintain a live map of design organization and delivery needs.
• Manage design hiring processes from approval to onboarding and offboarding.
• Establish a stable planning cadence and clear goals tied to company OKRs.
• Act as the DRI for cross-team programs to move them to shipped outcomes.
• Help move the team to agentic ways of working and maintain documentation.
• Track adoption and impact of new processes.
• Ensure a written quality bar exists and is applied consistently.
• Build reporting to monitor the tradeoff between speed and quality.

Required qualifications

• 4–6+ years of experience running operations, programmes or a chief-of-staff function inside a product or design organisation.
• Experience through a period of rapid growth.
• Track record of building org structures, planning cadences and hiring processes from scratch.
• Systems thinker comfortable with ambiguity.
• Fluent in how modern product teams build.
• Early adopter of AI-native and agentic ways of working.
• Strong communicator.
• Caring about design and the people who do it.

Nice to have

• Line management experience

About the company

Legora is building an AI-native workspace for legal professionals to move faster and operate with precision. The company has 2,100+ customers across 80+ countries and has scaled to $200M+ in ARR.