What it's about
nu:legal is building the first AI platform that takes legal, regulatory, and bureaucratic processes off companies' plates end-to-end. Not for law firms, but for the companies themselves, from mid-sized businesses to fast-growing teams that finally want their legal handled without the hassle. We're a small, ambitious team in Berlin/Potsdam.
You own the entire design area as the first and central designer in the company. That means no art director and no huge structure. Instead, real influence, real responsibility, and a product you shape from the start.
What you'll do
- Own UX as your core focus: plan and run user tests with real users, analyze them, and turn the insights directly into product improvements.
- Evolve the nu:legal product, from UX concept through UI design to implementation in Figma.
- Actively maintain and grow our existing design system, components, tokens, and patterns, so it scales with the product and stays usable for engineering.
- Work closely with engineering, marketing, and management, iteratively and directly.
- Beyond the product, help shape what we show the outside world: brand, marketing assets, and website.
What to expect
We're honest upfront so you can decide whether this fits you:
- We're early and small. Priorities shift, and not every day is plannable.
- The load is uneven: quieter stretches alternate with very intense ones.
- Roles overlap. As the only designer, you'll sometimes do things outside the classic design profile.
- We give direct, honest feedback and expect the same from you.
- You'll often make design decisions without a ready template and without a second design opinion in the room.
If that excites you more than it scares you, you'll fit in well here.
What you should bring
Required
- At least 3 years of professional experience in product design / UX and UI. You can independently run a complete design process.
- You're a Figma pro: components, variants, auto layout, design tokens, design library.
- You can make and defend clear, well-reasoned design decisions, even when you're the only designer in the room.
- You're good at reducing complexity: not leaving things out, but making them understandable.
- You're comfortable with AI tools and ready to use them to optimize and rethink processes.
- You bring your own ideas, work in a structured way, and take ownership of the entire design area.
- You question existing workflows and product decisions, are open to real innovation, and use AI actively as a tool.
Nice to have
- Experience at an early-stage startup or with a product still being built.
- Experience with vibe coding is a real plus.
- Interest in legal tech, AI-driven workflows, or regulated domains.
- You've built or co-built a design system before, not just used one.
What we offer
- Competitive salary plus equity. You build with us, you participate in the upside.
- Real design ownership over a product from day one.
- Direct collaboration with the founders and a small, ambitious team.
- Regular home-office days and one month of remote work anywhere.
- Top equipment (laptop, design monitor).
Interview process
- Intro call (~30 min): a first read on both sides and a check against the honest "What to expect".
- Design interview: we go through your portfolio, your process, and your UX decisions together.
- Practical design task: compact and on real problems, not a throwaway test.
- Meet the team.
- Final conversation with the CEO/founder.
- Offer.
Include a link to your work (portfolio, case studies, Figma files). You'll convince us more with real content and solid design process and UX decisions than with AI-generated portfolios. We respond to every serious application within two weeks.