Staff AI UX Product Designer, LegalZoom
$140.5-249.2k
Online legal advice platform
Open for applications
Online legal advice platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$140.5-249.2k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To transform how people navigate the legal system.
Role
Who you are
- Strong design fundamentals: you defend a direction with evidence, not instinct, and you explore meaningfully different approaches before you converge on one
- Comfort designing from ambiguity, a problem before it has a spec, a system before it has documentation
- Fluency building with AI development tools (Claude Code or equivalent) to take a concept to a working, production-quality prototype
- Front-end implementation fluency, including the judgment to tell when AI-generated code preserves your design intent and when it degrades it, and the ability to wire components to real data and APIs rather than static mocks
- Git and GitHub workflow: branches, pull requests, and code review as a normal part of how you ship
- Prompt and context scaffolding to keep AI output consistent and minimize drift across a project
- A track record of closing gaps in a design system, not just applying what already exists
- Clear communication and the ability to influence people who don't report to you
- A strategic mindset: you connect the decision in front of you to where the product and the team are headed, not just what's due this sprint
What the job involves
- LegalZoom's product design team builds in code, not just in mockups
- As a Staff Product Designer, internally referred to as an AI UX Designer, you solve problems end to end and build the production-ready prototypes and components that prove out your thinking, then hand off directly to engineering
- You're the person other builders turn to for the call on whether something meets the bar while it's being built, not after
- Design judgment is the primary craft on this team: defining the right problem, exploring genuinely different directions, and knowing which one actually serves the customer
- What sets this role apart is build fluency on top of that judgment, taking the strongest direction to a working, production-quality prototype yourself instead of handing off a static spec
- Seniority on this team shows up as leading a domain, a product surface, an emerging AI experience, a growth surface, as a natural extension of doing the work well, not through a separate title or ladder
- Develop frameworks that simplify ambiguous problem spaces, and generate novel product directions grounded in genuine exploration of alternatives before converging
- Build and ship functional prototypes at production quality, testing real interactions with real data rather than presenting static screens
- Take features from requirements to shipped experience using AI development tools, contributing directly to front-end implementation where it improves the customer experience
- Recognize gaps in the design system and initiate new patterns: build and document components that integrate with the system's architecture rather than working around it
- Read and respond to CI/CD checks, visual regression, accessibility, token audits, before work reaches customers
- Judge when AI-generated or AI-assisted work carries the intended design and when it needs refinement, closing that loop yourself instead of routing it through a separate review
- Instrument what you ship so real usage feeds back into the next round of design, not just what shipped but how it performed
- Help the cross-functional team make roadmap trade-offs, balancing speed and quality using AI to compress the build-test-learn loop without lowering the evidence bar
- Shape how AI-powered features in your domain calibrate user trust: when to surface confidence, when to require confirmation, when to show alternatives
- Mentor peers and elevate the craft bar for the team, not just your own work
- Establish and raise the quality standards the team builds against
- Align with the other teams and functions your work touches, product, engineering, brand, so what ships holds together beyond your own domain
Our take
LegalZoom is an online legal technology service that can help people create their own legal documents. It believes legal advice and services should be clear, easy-to-understand, and affordable, and provides services to help people make a will, start a business, lodge a trademark application, and more.
LegalZoom has helped millions of people who otherwise could not hire a lawyer with its extensive range of legal solutions. It competes with a handful of other companies, such as IncFile and Rocket Lawyer, that also provide online legal technology.
Despite operating in a competitive market, LegalZoom has continued to expand, helped in part by growing demand for digital legal solutions, Its 2021 IPO provided further momentum, allowing it to scale its operations and invest in new growth opportunities.
Most notably, the company has now been named the provider of 'legal help' for Perplexity - a partnership that could potentially reshape how consumers and small businesses discover and engage with legal services, positioning legal support as something more accessible.
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Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2011
$66m
SERIES B
Mar 2007
$45m
SERIES A
Total funding: $111m
Company benefits
- Remote-friendly work, encouraging time outside the office to relax and recharge
- Comprehensive health benefits, including mental health and fertility care
- A culture of growth, fostering learning and development and opportunities to give back
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Jeff Stibel
(CEO)Jeff has been the CEO of LegalZoom since 2014. Alongside this role, he is also a Partner at Bryant Stibel, on the Board of Trustees at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and a Chairman at The BrainGate Company.
Noel Watson
(COO & CFO)Noel joined LegalZoom in 2020 as CFO, adding COO to his title in 2024. Prior to this, he was the CFO at TrueCar and VP of Finance/Chief Accounting Officer at TripAdvisor.
Nicole Miller
(CLO & General Counsel)Nicole joined LegalZoom in 2020 as a General Counsel, adding CLO to her title in 2024. Prior to this, she spent 6 years at The Honest Company, joining in 2014 as a Senior Corporate Counsel before becoming VP of Legal Affairs and Associate General Counsel in 2016 and then moving into the role of General Counsel in 2018.
Prior to joining LegalZoom in 2021, Sheily was the VP of Global Human Resources at Activision Blizzard. She also spent nearly 10 years at Google in various roles, including Director of Global Trust & Safety Operations.
Daniel Lysaught
(CMO)Daniel joined LegalZoom in 2022 as a VP of Growth Marketing before stepping into the role of CMO in 2023. Prior to this, he was a VP of Growth Product & Marketing at Good Eggs. He also spent 6 years at TrueCar in various roles, including Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships & Marketing and VP of Customer Acquisition.
Kathy Tsitovich
(Chief Corporate Development & Partnership Officer)Prior to joining LegalZoom in 2020, Kathy spent 21 years at Intuit. While there, she held a number of roles, including VP of Consumer Group and Business Development.
Aaron Stibel
(CBO & CCO)Alongside LegalZoom, Aaron is a Founding Partner at Bryant Stibel, a Board Member at RBmedia, and an Advisory Board Member at Tufts University.
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