--- title: 'Founding Designer at WilsonAI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/founding-designer-wilsonai-san-francisco-bvsw7xszw2tv' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Founding Designer at WilsonAI - **Company:** WilsonAI - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-01-18 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wilson/4e880709-64ff-45f4-b09d-74eaf8b0d9bd ## Job description WilsonAI is building Cursor for lawyers, helping legal teams review, negotiate, and manage contracts with unprecedented speed and accuracy. We are backed by Nomad Ventures and Autopilot and raised a $1.7M pre seed round at the end of 2024. Since then, we have stabilised our product with early customers, beaten competitors in head to head pilots with teams handling hundreds of millions in revenue, and scaled through founder led sales to multi six figure revenue. We have been featured in The Lawyer, Artificial Lawyer, and more. We are at the very beginning of a once in a generation opportunity to transform the trillion dollar legal industry with AI. ## THE ROLE We are looking for an exceptional Founding Design Engineer with outstanding aesthetic taste and strong frontend engineering skills. You will work very closely with our CTO, interface directly with customers, and act as the founding tastemaker for WilsonAI. You will shape how the product looks, feels, and behaves across every surface, from core product workflows to marketing and presentation assets. This is a hands on role with end to end ownership. You will move quickly, get deep into the details, and be responsible for taking ideas from concept through to polished production. This role is demanding and high impact. ## WHAT YOU WILL DO - Design and build polished, high quality product interfaces using React and TypeScript - Own complex, information dense workflows such as document review and AI assisted contract flows - Craft smooth, intuitive AI native interfaces that make LLM powered features feel fast and trustworthy - Work directly with customers to understand pain points and validate design decisions - Own the full design to implementation pipeline, from early concepts to shipped features - Act as the aesthetic bar setter across the product and all digital assets ## WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR - Exceptional aesthetic judgement and attention to detail - Strong frontend engineering skills, particularly in React and TypeScript - Product intuition for complex, professional grade interfaces - Sharp instincts for AI driven UX and how to present LLM outputs cleanly - Deep care for craft and a desire to build something genuinely beautiful - Comfortable working directly with customers and incorporating feedback quickly - High agency, self directed, and comfortable owning outcomes end to end - Ex founders and startup oriented engineers are especially welcome ## WHY THIS ROLE You will be the founding tastemaker for WilsonAI. Your fingerprints will be everywhere. We are operating at the frontier of applied AI in a conservative, high stakes industry. We optimise for speed and quality and are looking for people who want responsibility, ownership, and impact. If you want to define the look and feel of a category defining AI product and grow faster than you would anywhere else, we would love to hear from you. ## About WilsonAI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: WilsonAI is building the world’s first AI paralegal for in-house legal teams, automating repetitive legal requests and streamlining workflows. - **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-seed) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Gus Neate (CEO, ex-Clifford Chance lawyer) and Alex Wang (CTO, ex-D.E. Shaw developer & quant) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Legal Technology / AI-powered legal operations - **Target customers**: In-house legal teams at high-growth technology companies (B2B, Enterprise) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To eliminate the legal bottleneck by handling routine legal work, allowing lawyers to focus on strategic, high-value tasks. ## Products & Services - **AI Paralegal (Legal Large Action Model – LLAM)**: An AI agent that integrates with a legal team’s existing systems and data. Automates routine legal requests, answers common questions, reviews contracts, and captures knowledge. It learns from real-world usage to improve over time. (SaaS / AI Agent) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $1.7 million (Pre-seed) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Nomad Ventures (lead), Autopilot Ventures, Entrepreneur First, Transpose Platform, and strategic angels including Mei Z and several exited founders and law firm partners. - **Growth Signals**: - Deployed with 10 high-growth technology companies. - Automates over 50% of routine legal queries and accelerates contract review processes by up to 70%. - In-house lawyers report redirecting 15–20 hours per week to strategic work. - Team includes experts from Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, Starling Bank, Portofino Technologies, Julia Computing, and D.E. Shaw. ## Competitive Advantages - **Proprietary Legal Large Action Model (LLAM)** – unlike static AI tools, it continuously refines capabilities based on real-world usage, making it adaptive to each legal team’s workflows. - **Deep domain expertise** – founded by a former lawyer and a quant developer, combining legal knowledge with cutting-edge AI. - **Seamless integration** – designed to plug into existing legal tech stacks and internal knowledge bases, reducing friction for adoption. ## Strategic Focus - Enhance AI capabilities and expand integrations with existing legal tech stacks. - Accelerate customer onboarding across industries. - Scale the team and product to become the essential AI paralegal for in-house legal teams worldwide. ## Why Work Here - **Early-stage impact** – Join a small, high-caliber team (currently ~6 employees) where you’ll directly shape the product and company culture. - **Founders with top-tier backgrounds** – Work alongside leaders from Clifford Chance, D.E. Shaw, and other elite institutions. - **Remote-friendly culture** – The team is distributed across the United States and United Kingdom, suggesting a flexible, hybrid/remote environment. - **Cutting-edge AI work** – Build a proprietary Legal Large Action Model, pushing the boundaries of applied AI in a high-value domain. - **Notable perks** – Free trial and demo available; likely a strong engineering culture with a stack including TypeScript, React, Python, PostgreSQL, Docker, and more. ## Sources 1. [Ashby Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wilson) 2. [WilsonAI Blog – Funding Announcement](https://www.getwilson.ai/blog/wilsonai-raises-1-7m-pre-seed-for-ai-paralegal) 3. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/wilsonai-company) 4. [EU-Startups Article](https://www.eu-startups.com/2025/02/wilsonai-raises-e1-6-million-for-worlds-first-ai-paralegal-for-in-house-legal-teams/) 5. 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