Design Program Manager

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.

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• 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.

Requirements:

• 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.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with a proven ability to translate design progress and complex trade-offs into business-relevant narratives for leadership.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design methodologies, modern UX workflows, and tools like Figma.
• Experience working with project tracking tools like Jira or emerging AI tools.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses
• Membership to Modern Health to support mental health and wellness
• Paid parental leave
• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
• Competitive equity grants
• 401(k) plan with company matching of up to 4% of eligible annual compensation
• 17 paid vacation days, 11 federal holidays, and paid sick leave
• Four "Everlawlidays" per year
• Annual allocation for learning & development and relevant professional membership dues
• Hybrid work with regular work-from-home days and flexibility for life's logistics
• Monthly home internet reimbursement, plus a stipend for your desk setup
• Catered lunch each workday, plus snacks and company-wide events in our offices