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# Forward Deployed Product Designer at Norm Ai

- **Company:** Norm Ai
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/norm-ai/cb9138eb-aca2-4fdb-83ea-3bd8523ae612

## Job description

## About Norm Ai

Norm Ai, the agentic law company, has a client base with a combined $30 trillion in assets under management.

Norm Ai pioneered Legal Engineering, the process that empowers lawyers to build and supervise domain-specific AI agents with Norm’s proprietary suite of no-code software tools. Norm Ai technology is deployed inside many of the largest and most consequential institutions in the world.

Norm Ai is also the technology behind Norm Law, LLP, a separate but affiliated AI-native law firm built for the era of agentic AI. Norm Law’s attorneys advise leading institutions across private funds, private equity, venture capital, real estate, registered funds, and financial regulation, using the same legal intelligence platform that powers Norm Ai’s products.

AI Fluency: Norm Ai expects all team members to be fluent in AI. Successful candidates actively use AI in their day-to-day work to support thinking, creation, and problem-solving. They use it to improve the quality and speed of their work and to continuously refine how work gets done end-to-end.

Candidates should be prepared to demonstrate and discuss their AI usage throughout the interview process, including concrete examples of tools, workflows, and outcomes. We look for practical, hands-on experience, not theoretical familiarity.

## THIS ROLE

Design the client experience for a new kind of law firm.

Norm Law pairs excellent legal service with software that makes working with outside counsel more transparent, interactive, and modern than the traditional law firm experience.

As a Staff Product Designer on the Deployment Team, you’ll design practice-group-specific software that brings that experience to life: tools that help clients see what is happening, help partners deliver excellent service, and make complex legal work easier to navigate.

This is a forward-deployed role. You’ll work directly with Norm Law partners, clients, and Forward Deployed Engineers: defining the ideal attorney and client experience, turning messy requirements into prototypes and shipped products, and making the work tangible for internal and external stakeholders.

You’ll work in a continuous design and delivery loop, not a traditional handoff model. You’ll sketch and prototype quickly, bring a point of view, and stay close to implementation and QA as the product takes shape. Some problems will need deep exploration; others will need a sharp call that day. You’ll need the judgment to know the difference.

Success means improving the quality and coherence of what ships while matching the pace of the Deployment Team. The work should also push Norm’s design system forward, revealing the reusable components and interaction patterns we need as practice-group workflows become more sophisticated.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Lead product design for practice-group-specific software delivered by the Deployment Team.
- Join client and partner scoping conversations from day one, alongside the internal team.
- Turn ambiguous needs into clear workflows, prototypes, and product decisions.
- Design workflows that help clients and legal teams understand progress, make decisions, and move matters forward.
- Prototype in code or with AI-assisted tools when that helps the team learn faster.
- Work alongside Forward Deployed Engineers through implementation and QA, giving hands-on product and design feedback as the build takes shape.
- Help the team make high-quality product decisions under real client, technical, and time constraints, while partnering with FDEs on the technical approach to realizing the target experience.
- Identify when a client- or practice-specific solution should become a reusable product, component, or design-system pattern.
- Bring what you learn from client delivery back to the broader product, engineering, and design teams.

## WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

## CORE QUALIFICATIONS

- 6+ years of product design experience, including ownership of complex B2B or enterprise product experiences.
- Strong interaction, visual, and systems design craft.
- Experience designing complex workflow, data-dense, or client-facing software.
- Comfort working through ambiguity without waiting for a perfect brief.
- Strong client-facing presence and the ability to explain design decisions to senior stakeholders.
- Experience partnering directly with engineers from early scoping through implementation.
- Ability to move quickly without losing clarity, judgment, or product quality.
- Good taste, strong product judgment, and a bias toward making ideas concrete.
- Fluency with AI-assisted design, prototyping, and development tools.
- A portfolio demonstrating shipped product work, not only concepts or final mockups.

## NICE TO HAVES

- Experience in a forward-deployed, solutions, consulting, agency, or other client-embedded environment.
- Experience designing legal, financial, healthcare, or other expert professional workflows.
- Experience designing collaboration tools or software that connects external users to complex internal workflows.
- Comfort with Git, React, and version-controlled prototyping workflows.
- Experience turning fast-moving product work into reusable components, interaction patterns, or design-system contributions.
- Experience working at an early-stage or fast-growing company.

## COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

Base salary: $215,000 to $265,000 per year

The range displayed in this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salary for this position. Within the range, individual pay is determined by various factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Equity: Included

Benefits: 401(k) with employer match, health, dental, vision coverage, unlimited paid time off, free lunch in office daily, employee referral bonus program

Relocation: Financial support to ease your move to New York City, designed to make the transition smooth and stress-free.

## WORK LOCATION

Location: New York City

Work model: Hybrid

In-office expectation: 3-4 days per week

To learn more about Norm Ai, visit our website https://www.norm.ai.

## About Norm Ai

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Norm Ai builds Legal & Compliance AI agents that automate regulatory and compliance tasks by embedding law directly into AI systems.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Private Equity-backed)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA (7 World Trade Center, 39th Floor)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: John Nay (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Legal Technology, Regulatory Compliance, Artificial Intelligence
- **Target customers**: Large financial institutions, asset managers, and enterprises in regulated sectors (finance, healthcare, legal). Clients include firms with a combined $20+ trillion in assets under management.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To make compliance advice abundant and set the norms for an agentic implementation of law and policy.

## Products & Services
- **Norm Ai Platform (Regulatory AI)**: AI agents that automate compliance tasks such as risk identification, compliance checks, and regulatory report generation, while adhering to legal and regulatory requirements.
- **Supervisory AI**: A verification and oversight layer for every AI agent operating under law, ensuring compliance and governance.
- **Norm Law**: The world's first fully AI-native law firm for global institutional clients, launched in early 2026.
- **Legal AGI Lab**: The R&D arm (launched April 2026 at Stanford FutureLaw) advancing Legal AGI and the science of AI agents governed by human law.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Total Funding**: $136.1M raised to date.
- **Key Funding Rounds**:
  - January 2025: $48M raised from Vanguard, Blackstone, Bain Capital, Citi, TIAA, and Coatue.
  - Early 2026: Additional $50M investment from Blackstone alongside the launch of Norm Law.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Blackstone, Coatue, Citi Ventures, Vanguard, Bain Capital, TIAA, New York Life Ventures.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Trusted by institutions managing over $30T in combined assets.
  - Client base includes firms with a combined $20 trillion in assets under management.
  - 99 total employees as of mid-2026.
  - Founded in 2023 and already raised $136M+.
  - High-profile hires: Mike Schmidtberger (former Chairman of Sidley Austin) joined as Chairman of Norm Law in January 2026.
  - Senior policy advisors include Susan Dudley (former White House Regulatory Czar) and Troy Paredes (former SEC Commissioner).

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in "Agentic Law"**: Pioneered the concept of embedding legal rules directly into AI agents, creating a defensible position in a nascent category.
- **Institutional Trust**: Backed by and serving the world's largest asset managers, providing a powerful network effect and credibility.
- **Dual Structure (AI + Law Firm)**: Operates both a technology company (Norm Ai) and an affiliated AI-native law firm (Norm Law), allowing it to practice law directly and encode legal judgment.
- **Supervisory AI Moat**: A verification layer that governs AI agents under law, addressing the critical societal-AI alignment problem.
- **Talent Network**: Engineers from Palantir, Google, Stripe, Meta, AWS; Legal Engineers from Harvard Law, Stanford Law, Yale Law, top law firms, and regulators.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling Agentic Law**: Expanding the deployment of Regulatory AI agents across the largest financial institutions globally.
- **Building the Legal AGI Lab**: Advancing long-term R&D toward Artificial General Intelligence for legal reasoning.
- **Growing Norm Law**: Recruiting world-class law firm partners and scaling the AI-native law firm for institutional clients.
- **Policy Leadership**: Convening regulators and industry leaders (e.g., U.S. Senators, SEC commissioners) to shape the norms for AI governance.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: Work on the societal-AI alignment problem by embedding democratically-determined law into AI systems.
- **High-impact environment**: Fast-paced learning alongside experts at the intersection of law, AI, and technology.
- **Talent density**: Colleagues from top tech companies (Palantir, Google, Stripe) and top law schools/firms.
- **Compensation**: Competitive salary and equity, 401(k) with employer matching, paid parental leave, premium healthcare.
- **Work model**: Hybrid (employees work from physical offices in NYC at the World Trade Center). Relocation reimbursement available.
- **Culture**: High ownership and high trust environment. Free daily lunches, snacks, and drinks in-office. State bar fee reimbursement for legal professionals.
- **Career growth**: Opportunity to define a new category ("Legal Engineering") and work on cutting-edge AI deployment.

## Sources
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