Wordsmith
Product Designer
Edinburgh. Posted 5 months ago
The role
You will design and build UX and UI to simplify complex legal workflows. You will prototype concepts in code and bridge the gap between design and engineering.
What you will do
- Design and build the UX and UI
- Rapidly prototype new concepts in code to validate ideas
- Bridge design and engineering by turning designs into shipped code
- Own the quality of UI implementation across the product
- Help define product direction and frame ambiguous problems
- Contribute to the design system and component libraries
- Use AI to explore, prototype, and think past traditional UX and UI patterns
Required qualifications
- Can build and ship your own front-end (TypeScript, React, CSS, animation)
- Can shape the direction of projects and bring people with you
- Self-sufficient to take a problem from ambiguity to shipped experience
- Eye for detail and care deeply about craft
- Finishes what you start
- Moves fast, prototyping ideas in hours, not days
- Thinks in systems and builds reusable, maintainable UI
- Excited about AI and defining new interaction paradigms
Nice to have
- Experience building or scaling design systems
- Experience building developer tools, technical products, or other complex software for expert users
- Formal design training, or a track record that makes it irrelevant
- A real interest in how legal work actually gets done
Benefits
- Real ownership over product direction and design decisions
- Complex, meaningful problems at the intersection of AI and real-world legal work
- A small team of engineers, designers, and domain experts who ship
- Competitive salary
- Meaningful equity
About the company
Wordsmith is building the legal operations platform for in-house teams. More than 500 companies use Wordsmith.