DISCO is a legal tech software company focused on improving the practice of law by automating the parts of the practice that can be automated so that great lawyers can focus on tasks that really do require human legal judgment. To date, we have substantially disrupted the legal tech market with a lawyer inspired consumer-grade interface and a cloud-enabled technology platform that offers unprecedented performance and cost savings. Our objective is to own the legal tech market and become the leader in legal as Salesforce has done in the sales technology space. We are building a unified technology platform for the practice of law, composed of 7+ products to be released over the next 10 years.

Thoughtful product planning and product design are core tenets in our “product first” business strategy and culture. 

Your Impact

As a Senior Product Designer for DISCO focused on Northstar strategy, you’ll help craft our vision and roadmap for intuitive - and at times magical - digital tools that will improve the practice of law. To create these northstars, you’ll rapidly create and iterate high-fidelity visual mockups of complex legal workflows based upon insights that you elicit from in-house subject matter experts and representative users. 

Designing great user experiences requires someone that is a strong communicator and facilitator to extract the best ideas. At DISCO we expect a humble yet confident approach to design.

What You’ll Do

• Work effectively within a cross-functional team (product management, domain, our founder/CEO, design, and engineering) to define a vision of our future product offerings.
• Conduct research to understand user needs and use environments.
• Lead workshops and design sprints.
• Rapidly prototype ideas at various levels of fidelity and iteratively test them with representative users. 
• Communicate your designs and their underlying rationale clearly to clients and other team members through artifacts including site maps, journey maps, storyboards, and usability test reports.
• Collaborate with other designers and engineers to implement and maintain DISCO’s design system.
• Work with feature teams to accurately transition northstar vision into shipping products.

Things You Might Work On

• Synthesizing and simplifying complex workflows, often involving hundreds of lawyers collaborating on millions of documents.
• A visualized human communication network computed by AI.
• Defining enterprise-wide analytics and dashboards that inform legal strategies and ongoing data management policies.

Who You Are

• 7+ years of experience in software UI design creating artifacts including low- through high-fidelity mockups, interactive prototypes, and journey maps.
• 5+ years of experience designing the software UI of enterprise-level B2B or B2C applications that support users who are performing complex, technical tasks. 
• 5+ years experience as an embedded designer in cross-functional teams successfully taking your early concepts through to released products. 
• 2+ years experience in planning, conducting, or participating in UX generative and evaluative methods to discover user needs, structure content, define workflows and use cases, and iteratively refine prototypes. Representative activities include contextual inquiry, design sprints, semi-structured interviews, and scenario-based usability testing. 
• Holder of a degree or certification in design, human-computer interaction, human factors/ergonomics, software engineering, or experimental or cognitive psychology; or have equivalent training in product design and user experience principles and methods. 
• Owner of an online portfolio that represents your (non-confidential) latest and greatest work including an example of a product design flow with a high level of craftsmanship.

Even Better If You…

• Have experience rapidly visualizing complex concepts under tight time constraints such as while facilitating a workshop or in response to an urgent client brief.
• Have a balanced mix of information architecture, interaction design, visual design, and research skills.
• Have experience using Figma.
• Have familiarity with legal ediscovery and related workflows
• Bring a holistic end-to-end and user-centered view to problem solving, yet know how to isolate specific design issues and opportunities.
• Work independently, are a self-starter, and take proactive ownership of projects and tasks while effectively collaborating in a team environment. 
• Have experience in designing user interfaces for search.
• Have experience with HTML/CSS/JavaScript or other coding frameworks
• Have experience working on an Agile team.
• Leverage tried and true practices, but when necessary customize or invent a new standard.
• Have a design super-power, we can always leverage illustration, animation, typography, hand-lettering, event speaking, etc.
• Understand how to apply scientific thinking to your work, transforming business problems and user insights into designs that people find delightful and even magical.
• Enjoy meeting users of your products to discover insights and refine your designs.
• Demonstrate exceptional verbal and written communication skills.

Perks of DISCO

• Open, inclusive, and fun environment
• Benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, as well as 401K
• Competitive salary plus equity 
• Flexible PTO 
• Free catered lunches every day as well as free snacks and beverages 
• Opportunity to be a part of a startup that is revolutionizing the legal industry

Why Join DISCO

We intend to build a multi-billion dollar business and think you should come along for the ride because:

• We were the first movers to a cloud-based platform that has caused mass disruption within our market.
  
• Our CEO is a true market visionary.  He graduated with a computer science degree at the age of 15 and followed with a JD from Harvard Law School at the age of 19.  His unparalleled insights into the fundamental issues in legal and the potential of technology and artificial intelligence to change our market at its core provide the guiding light for DISCO’s long-term strategy.
  
• We believe that product delivery professionals including product managers, product designers, and engineers differ from one another by at least a factor of 10. We believe that product delivery professionals including product managers, product designers and engineers differ from one another by at least a factor of 10.  At DISCO, we only hire the top 1%. We pay them well and also include equity, which means , pay them well, and with equity, everyone has effectively been getting a raise each and every day. Given our product-focused mindset, product professionals are very much stars of the show. Given our product first mindset, product professionals are very much stars of the show.  Our logo, the circle and square, represents the best lawyers and the best product professionals in the world.
  
• We measure product delivery velocity by dollars of revenue per line of code, vs simply lines of code.  We hire many more product managers and designers per engineer than most companies to drive a very thoughtful and deliberate product design and development process that ensures we are going to make money when we ship products.  We hire many more product managers and designers per engineer than most companies to ensure that our engineers have a disambiguated product intent when they are building.
  
• As a rule, we don’t commit to external product delivery dates as we believe that unnecessarily constrains our creativity from both a product and technology point of view.
  
• At DISCO respect isn’t earned; it is assumed. Good humans inherently treat everyone respectfully. This is a very important concept at DISCO.
  
• Given the high caliber of talent, the cutting-edge cloud-based technology stack, and thoughtful and novel product and design approach, you’ll find yourself learning and growing at a rate you’ve not likely experienced in your career.  Given that we only hire professionals that are passionate about their craft, you’ll truly enjoy building a great software product and get in the best “career shape” of your life.
  
• We use the “2 Pizza Team” organization design where small autonomous teams own a piece of a product or platform and ship software at rates comparable to a very lean and scrappy startup.  We achieve consistency across these teams in the areas of design, product-wide use cases and technical concerns through a strategically focused set of overlay functions.
  
• Finally, while we’re an incredibly fast-growing organization, as a rule, we do not work crazy long hours.  We believe in continuous product delivery, continuous product planning and design, continuous regular sleep schedules, continuous regular vacation, and continuous fun if you’re passionate about your craft.