The posting
Role Overview
As Lead Product Designer, you will own design for Adalat AIs flagship product and help define the design vision across our growing product suite. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who has led small to mid-sized design teams in fast-moving environments and enjoys product ownership.
Youll work closely with the founders to define product vision, and with our on-ground legal partnerships team to embed user-first, research-driven practices across the design process.
This role is less about pixel-perfect mobile UI and more about systems thinking, product strategy, team leadership, and taste.
Key Responsibilities
Product Leadership & Ownership
- Own problem definition and solution design for Adalat AIs core product areas (Judges Chamber and Live Court)
- Partner with founders to shape roadmap decisions, trade-offs, and long-term product and design vision
- Lead major feature revamps and workflow improvements
- Design for unique constraints of Indian Judiciary: multilingual usage, varying digital literacy, legacy legal processes
Design & Team Leadership
- Design with and for AI with focus on human-in-the-loop workflows, explainability, and trust in AI-assisted features
- Lead, mentor and hire junior designers for our growing design team
- Set a high bar for craft, critique, and user-first decision-making
- Establish scalable design processes while staying lightweight and execution-focused
Systems, Research & Scale
- Spearhead Adalat AIs design system
- Lead AI-assisted design initiatives to improve velocity and consistency
- Build a strong user research and voice of customer pipeline with the partnerships team to ground decisions in real courtroom insights
Qualifications
- 7+ years of product design experience, with 1–2+ years leading designers
- Experience owning complex B2B or workflow-heavy products
- Strong systems thinking and experience building or scaling design systems
- Comfortable working directly with founders and senior stakeholders
- Portfolio showing product thinking, shipped work, and leadership impact
Nice to have: Familiarity with legal-tech or gov-tech, experience with AI-driven audio-first products
What You Will Achieve in a Year
- Overhaul design of our voice-first text editor
- Launch multiple text-based AI-powered tools for judiciary
- Build and scale our design system to serve 3000+ judges and law staff
- Design for one of Indias most complex and impactful systems: the judiciary
- Shape both our flagship product and the design culture behind it
- High ownership, real-world impact, and room to define how design operates at scale



