Director, Product Design, Core Product

WHY HARVEY At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come. This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. With 1500+ customers in 60+ countries, strong product-market fit, and world-class investor support, we’re scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth — personal, professional, and financial — is unmatched. Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission — operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you. At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started. ROLE OVERVIEW We’re looking for a Director of Product Design to lead design for our Core Product portfolio at a senior leadership level. Our core product is an AI-powered legal copilot that helps lawyers move from chat prompt to high-quality work product faster and more reliably. It brings together a conversational assistant, drafting and editing capabilities, and workflow automation into a unified system designed for real legal workflows. You’ll operate as a strategic partner to Product, Engineering leadership, owning how design contributes to business outcomes, customer trust, and long-term product vision. You’ll set direction, develop designers, and ensure Harvey ships cohesive, high-craft experiences as our surface area and ambition grow. You will be responsible for innovating and delivering unprecedented experience across end end-to-end user experiences of complex, multi-step workflows—where clarity, speed, and trust are non-negotiable. Your work will directly influence how thousands of lawyers reason, draft, and decide with AI. As leader, you will be a foundational member on the Design leadership team, and embody strong operations and communications skills that guide the team to build great products anchored in real user needs. You will define best practices, design for challenges both big and small, and lay the foundations for our product for years to come. You’ll report to VP Design at Harvey and have portfolio-wide impact to how our product, team, and culture scale. WHAT YOU'LL DO Strategy owner & influencer with strong product sense: - Own and drive design strategy across portfolio of teams, 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. Craft bar raiser - 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 People manager: - Own org design, resourcing, and prioritization across multiple teams and initiatives. - Build, lead, and grow a team of product designer ICs 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. Organizational leader: - 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. WHAT YOU HAVE - 10-12+ years of experience in Product Design, with 7+ years directly managing product designers. - Expe