Product Designer (UX/UI)

Role overview

nu:legal is creating an AI-driven platform that helps companies handle legal, regulatory, and administrative work from start to finish. The product is aimed at businesses themselves rather than law firms, with a focus on mid-sized companies and fast-growing teams that want a simpler way to manage legal work. The team is small, ambitious, and based in Berlin/Potsdam.

This position gives you end-to-end ownership of the design function as the company’s first dedicated designer. There is no large design hierarchy or art direction layer, so the role offers substantial influence, responsibility, and the chance to shape the product from its earliest stage.

What you will do

• Take full ownership of UX, including planning and conducting user testing, reviewing the findings, and translating them into product changes.
• Advance the product experience from concept to interface design and deliver solutions in Figma.
• Keep the design system healthy and evolving by improving components, tokens, and reusable patterns so it remains practical for engineering and scalable with the product.
• Partner closely with engineering, marketing, and leadership in a direct, iterative working style.
• Contribute beyond the core product by helping define brand direction, marketing visuals, and the website.

What the role asks for

• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in product design with both UX and UI responsibilities, plus the ability to manage a design process independently from start to finish.
• Strong command of Figma, including components, variants, auto layout, design tokens, and design libraries.
• Ability to present and defend thoughtful design choices, even when working as the only designer in the room.
• A strong talent for simplifying complexity without oversimplifying the underlying problem.
• Comfort using AI tools and applying them to improve or rethink workflows.
• A self-driven, structured working style with clear ownership of the design area.
• Willingness to challenge existing processes and product decisions, with openness to meaningful innovation and active use of AI as a working tool.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with equity so you share in the company’s long-term success.
• Meaningful design ownership from day one on a product you help define.
• Direct exposure to the founders and close collaboration within a small, motivated team.
• Regular work-from-home days plus the option to work remotely from anywhere for one month.
• Provided equipment, including a laptop and a design monitor.

Application process

The hiring flow includes an introductory call of about 30 minutes, a design interview focused on your portfolio and design thinking, a practical design task based on real problems, a team meeting, a final discussion with the CEO/founder, and then an offer.

Applicants are asked to share a portfolio, case studies, or Figma files. The team values real work and clear design reasoning more than AI-generated portfolios. They also state that they reply to every serious application within two weeks.

Additional information

The company describes itself as a small team in Berlin/Potsdam building an AI platform for legal automation. The role is for the first and central designer in the organization, with broad responsibility across product design, design systems, and external-facing brand work. The posting notes a career-change fit score of 8/10, highlights that the team is small, and says there is no on-call work.

The source also indicates that the role is full-time and remote, based in Berlin, Germany.