Design Program Manager, Everlaw
$140-178k
Plus equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Oakland, CA)
Unified platform for e-discovery and litigation
Posted today
Unified platform for e-discovery and litigation
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$140-178k
Plus equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Oakland, CA)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower organizations to better navigate litigation and investigations to chart a straighter path to the truth
Role
Who you are
- You have at least 5 years of experience in Design Program Management or Design Operations supporting product design teams in complex, enterprise B2B SaaS or data-heavy environments
- You excel at balancing competing priorities across multiple stakeholders, steering teams through ambiguity with structure, clear prioritization, and empathy
- You've built and scaled lightweight design operations frameworks, delivery plans, and resource tracking processes without stifling creative momentum
- You bring excellent communication and storytelling skills, with a proven ability to translate design progress and complex trade-offs into business-relevant narratives for leadership
- You bring a strong understanding of user-centered design methodologies, modern UX workflows, and tools like Figma
- You have experience working with project tracking tools like Jira or emerging AI tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Design)
- You operate with a low-ego, highly collaborative style, finding genuine fulfillment in making design teams visible and successful
- You are authorized to work in the United States without restrictions. Please note that at this time, Everlaw is not sponsoring F-1 visas, including OPT, for this role
- Think you're missing some of the skills and are hesitant to apply? We do not believe in the 'perfect' candidate and encourage you to apply if you feel you can bring value to our team. We often revisit candidates who may have applied for a different role if something comes up that's a better fit
What the job involves
- As a Design Program Manager at Everlaw, you'll establish the operating system for our growing product design team, bringing structure, visibility, and predictability to how we design AI-powered litigation tools
- As our first dedicated Design Program Manager, you'll absorb operational friction and cross-functional complexity so product designers can focus entirely on craft, quality, and solving complex user workflows
- Own the design operating model for planning and delivery — define how design work is estimated, sequenced, and handed off, and maintain the system that makes dependencies and timeline risk visible before they become escalations
- Define design readiness criteria and coordinate pre-launch quality reviews to ensure shipped features meet high standards for craft, responsiveness, accessibility, and edge cases
- Own the working interfaces between Design, Product Management, Engineering, User Research, and Technical Writing — define how scope is agreed, how dependencies are tracked, and where conflicts get decided, so those questions have a standing answer instead of being renegotiated per project
- Build and champion lightweight design operations rhythms, frameworks, and templates—such as design briefs and critique structures—to streamline team workflows
- Manage design resourcing and bandwidth tracking to inform staffing decisions, highlight capacity constraints, and help leadership plan for future team growth
- Own how design's work is represented to the business — build and maintain the reporting layer (capacity, throughput, readiness) that lets product and executive leadership plan against design, rather than assembling narrative updates each cycle
Our take
Everlaw builds technology to help corporations, law firms and government entities solve the toughest problems in the legal industry. The company's platform includes features to help speed up legal work, freeing up time to be spent on more value-add activities. Everlaw’s clients include most of the top 10 class action firms in the US and it is also used by state attorney generals in every state in the US.
Law is a big industry where a lot of money is spent, but it has been largely untouched by technology until recently, leaving a big opportunity. Testament to this, the company was able to expand to Australia and New Zealand following a partnership with Australian e-discovery provider Adio. It continues to deliver new features such as "AI Deep Dive" which lets legal teams uncover and verify key evidence from documents.
The company is also pursuing growth for its Everlaw for Good Program, seen at the 2024 Equal Justice Conference in Detroit. That year, it appointed its first program director as it works to dismantle barriers to justice for low-income Americans and marginalised communities in need of legal representation. It now has over 225 participating organizations.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2021
$202m
SERIES D
Mar 2020
$62m
SERIES C
Total funding: $298.6m
Company benefits
- Mind & Body - Everlaw cares about the whole person, and that is underscored by our health care plan. Everlaw offers employees and their dependents private health insurance which covers 100% of employee health insurance premiums and 60% of dependent premiums.
- Investing in Your Future - Everlaw believes in building for the long-term – for both our product and our employees. Everlaw enrolls employees in a pension fund upon hire where employees contribute 4% of their salary with a company match of 4%. An additional 1% comes from the UK government in the form of tax relief.
- Family Bonding - Everlaw supports growing families by ensuring employees receive 100% of their salary for up to 10 weeks for family-bonding leave, in addition to 8 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing parents.
- Everlawlidays and More - When you have a group of highly skilled, highly driven truth-finders, it’s important to build in breaks for recharging. Everlaw offers employees 20 days of paid holiday per calendar year in addition to the eight public holidays in England and Wales. Everlaw also recognises four ‘Everlawlidays’ that are designated days off for the whole company. Upon their fourth work anniversary, employees are upgraded to 23 days of holiday and to 27 days on their seventh work anniversary.
- On-Site Lunches and Snacks - Enjoy delicious daily catered lunches and sample the rotating snack and beverage selections in our London office.
- Never Stop Learning - We are committed to Everlawyers’ professional growth and encourage employees to pursue the right learning and development opportunities for wherever they are in their journey. With an annual Learning & Development stipend of £1,600, Everlawyers can attend conferences, obtain certifications, join classes and meet with career coaches.
- Giving Back - We are committed to supporting our local communities so we build in time for you to give back. In addition to time off for company-sponsored volunteer events, employees get four paid hours per quarter to volunteer at any charity recognised by the HMRC.
- Creating Community - Everlaw is filled with empowered, passionate problem solvers who like to have fun. From team dinners to holiday parties, Everlaw hosts optional company-wide bonding events regularly. Additionally, each department is given a monthly budget for activities and events planned by you and your colleagues. Events have included go-karting, escape rooms, trapeze classes and intramural sports.
Company HQ
Downtown, Oakland, CA
Leadership
AJ Shankar
(CEO & Founder)Previously a Senior Software Engineer at TheFind (acquired by Facebook).
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