User Experience Designer, AI Solutions

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Job Description

McDermott, Will & Schulte LLP is building one of the most ambitious AI programs in the legal industry — and great design is central to making it work. We're looking for a UX Designer to serve as the design authority across our AI Solutions Delivery team: advising analysts on UX approaches, setting the quality bar for every user-facing solution we ship, and stepping in to drive design directly when it matters most. This is not a production design role. It's a judgment role — for a designer who can look at an AI-generated interface and immediately know what's right, what's wrong, and exactly how to make it better.

WHY MWS

• Shape quality standards for an entirely new category of legal AI solutions — from the ground up
• Work with frontier AI tools to build and run tests faster than traditional QA methods allow
• High-visibility role reporting to Director of QA with direct impact on every solution the team ships
• Remote-first, technically rigorous team that takes production quality seriously

What You'll Do

• Serve as the UX authority for the AI Solutions Delivery team — advising analysts on design approach, interaction patterns, and user experience strategy for every solution they build
• Review AI-generated UIs produced via AI-assisted development platforms, providing precise, actionable design direction to iterate toward production quality
• Drive UI design directly for high-visibility or complex solutions, taking ownership from concept through delivery
• Establish and maintain UX standards and design patterns across the firm's growing library of AI-powered tools
• Conduct lightweight user research and stakeholder feedback sessions to validate design decisions with attorneys and operational teams
• Champion accessibility, consistency, and usability across all solutions — ensuring AI tools are intuitive for legal professionals, not just technically functional
• Stay ahead of evolving AI interface patterns, conversational UX, and agentic workflow design — bringing emerging best practices to the team

What You Bring

• 3+ years of UX or product design experience, with a portfolio of shipped digital products
• Strong design judgment — the ability to evaluate any interface, articulate exactly what's working and what isn't, and direct iterative improvement with precision
• AI fluency — you use AI tools regularly, understand their output, and can direct AI-assisted design workflows rather than being dependent on traditional design tooling
• Experience designing for complex workflows — multi-step processes, data-dense interfaces, or tools used by professional or expert users
• Excellent communication and advisory skills — you can explain a design decision to a non-designer stakeholder as confidently as to a developer
• Solid grasp of accessibility standards, responsive design, and web UI fundamentals
• Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, Computer Science, or equivalent demonstrated experience

Preferred

• Experience designing conversational interfaces, AI agents, or prompt-driven workflows
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development and design tools, including code-generating and UI-generating platforms
• Exposure to legal, financial, or other professional services environments
• Experience contributing to or establishing a design system in a fast-moving organization

DESIGN PHILOSOPHY

We are tool-agnostic. Whether you reach for Figma, an AI-assisted development platform, a whiteboard, or a live prototype depends entirely on what the situation calls for. What we care about is design judgment — the ability to make the right call, explain it clearly, and raise the bar on everything the team ships.

Successful candidates will be provided with outstanding career opportunities and will receive a competitive total rewards package with the opportunity to earn performance-based bonuses.

Target Hiring Range $110,000 - $169,000

Please note that quoted salary ranges are not guarantees of what final salary offers may be. Base pay is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and geographic location. Base pay is only one part of the Total Rewards that MWE provides to compensate and recognize our staff professionals for their work. Full time positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and a comprehensive benefits package.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Physical Demands And Work Environment

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit, use hands, reach with hands and arms, stoop, talk and hear
• Employee must occasionally lift up to twenty (20) pounds

Work Environment

Typical indoor office environment

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people within this classification. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this job.