--- title: 'Product Designer at Wordsmith AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/product-designer-wordsmith-ai-edinburgh-r9vk30fqgksa' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-16' --- # Product Designer at Wordsmith AI - **Company:** Wordsmith AI - **Location:** Edinburgh, United Kingdom - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-05-29 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wordsmith/ddbc4f1c-7198-4342-ab1a-97f53533a83a/application **Skills:** TypeScript, React, CSS, Animation, Design Systems, Component Libraries, Developer tools, Technical products > Design and build UX/UI for a legal operations platform, bridging design and engineering by prototyping in code. The role involves owning end-to-end product experiences, contributing to design systems, and leveraging AI to define new interaction paradigms. ## Job description Product Designer Edinburgh Wordsmith Wordsmith is building the legal operations platform for in-house teams, and we are growing fast. We believe in-house legal is becoming one of the most important functions in the AI era. Every business is moving faster, but legal work is still too often scattered across inboxes, chats, documents, and disconnected systems. Wordsmith brings that work into one system. Requests come in from across the business, AI agents handle the routine, lawyers stay in control where judgment matters, and every step is captured as work happens. We are built for in-house legal, not law firms. Our goal is to help legal teams move faster, reduce unnecessary external counsel spend, and become a function the business can run with. More than 500 companies, including Financial Times, Safelite, Trip.com, Canva, Starling, and Sage, use Wordsmith. Backed by $100M from Index Ventures, General Catalyst, Highland Europe, and others, we are building one of the defining companies in legal AI. ## The role We're looking for someone who lives at the intersection of design and code. You'll work directly with product and engineering to frame the problem, design the flows, then prototype, build, and polish the experiences that make Wordsmith feel effortless, even when the workflows underneath are anything but. This role suits someone who thinks like a designer and builds like an engineer, or the other way round. You'll design products where the behaviour is not always fixed, the inputs are messy, and the outcome still has to feel simple and reliable. You'll own that outcome end to end, and you'll be trusted to run with it on your own. ## What you'll do - Design and build the UX and UI: the flows, components, and interactions that simplify complex legal workflows - Rapidly prototype new concepts in code to validate ideas before committing to a full build - Bridge design and engineering: turn designs into shipped code, and push design forward through technical craft - Own the quality of UI implementation across the product, from pixel-perfect execution to the small interactions that make it feel alive - Help define product direction, frame ambiguous problems, and design the end-to-end flows behind the interface - Contribute to the design system and component libraries that let the team ship faster - Use AI as part of how you work, to explore, prototype, and think past traditional UX and UI patterns You might be a fit if - You can shape the direction of projects and bring people with you. You've earned the trust of engineers, PMs, and senior stakeholders before, and you know how to move a team without holding a mandate - You can build and ship your own front-end (TypeScript, React, CSS, animation). AI writes a lot of it now, so the real bar is taste and judgment: knowing what good looks like and getting it the last 10% - You're self-sufficient: you can take a problem from ambiguity to shipped experience on your own, no hand-holding required - You have an eye for detail and care deeply about craft, in the flows and logic as much as the pixels - You finish what you start: polished and shipped, not left at good enough - You move fast, prototyping ideas in hours, not days - You think in systems and build reusable, maintainable UI - You're excited about AI and want to help define new interaction paradigms for an entire industry ## Nice to have - Experience building or scaling design systems - Experience building developer tools, technical products, or other complex software for expert users - Formal design training, or a track record that makes it irrelevant - A real interest in how legal work actually gets done ## How we work We're an in-office team in Edinburgh. We work together because it helps us collaborate closely, move faster, and make better product decisions. Expect the office as your default. Design sits tightly with product and engineering, so you'll be in the room for the decisions, not working in isolation. ## What you can expect - Real ownership over product direction and design decisions - Complex, meaningful problems at the intersection of AI and real-world legal work - A small team of engineers, designers, and domain experts who ship - Competitive salary and meaningful equity At Wordsmith, you'll build category-defining tools that change how an entire industry works. If you want your design work to have real-world impact at scale, we'd love to hear from you. ## About Wordsmith AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Wordsmith provides an AI-native legal operations platform that captures, triages, resolves, and records every legal request from the business, enabling in-house legal teams to work at the speed of AI. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: London, England, United Kingdom - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Ross McNairn (CEO), Volodymyr Giginiak (CTO), Robbie Falkenthal (COO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Legal Technology (LegalTech), Enterprise AI, Workflow Automation - **Target customers**: In-house legal departments at mid-to-large enterprises across all industries (B2B, Enterprise) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To be the Northstar for legal intelligence in business — to bring the legal function in-house by making it measurable, compressible, and owned, just as every other major corporate cost centre has been. ## Products & Services - **The Wordsmith Platform (Legal Operations System)**: An end-to-end AI-native system built around four core workflows: **Receive** (captures legal requests from Slack, email, Salesforce, Teams, and procurement systems), **Route** (assigns ownership, priority, and context), **Resolve** (automates routine legal work using AI agents — drafting, redlining, research, translation — while escalating complex decisions to lawyers), and **Record** (logs every decision, action, and rationale in real time for audit-ready governance). - **Contract Review & Workflow Integration**: End-to-end contract review embedded directly into business tools like Slack, Gmail, and procurement systems. Reviews are collaborative and web-native. - **Word Integration**: A plugin allowing lawyers to review, redline, draft, research, and translate without leaving Microsoft Word. - **AI Agents**: Chain drafting into a full end-to-end workflow — receive the request, draft the document, route for approval, and send — with no manual step required. - **Global Legal Intelligence Engine**: Covers hundreds of trusted sources across 130+ jurisdictions, combined with deep knowledge of the customer’s own entities, risk profile, and prior positions. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised — **$100M** across two rounds. Last round: **€60.2M ($70M) Series B** (announced June 2026). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Index Ventures, Highland Europe, General Catalyst (the firms behind Figma, Stripe, Discord, Airbnb, Revolut, and Canva). - **Growth Signals**: - Used by **500+ organisations globally**, including major enterprises such as **BT, Financial Times, Safelite, Trip.com, and Canva**. - Reports that **Trustpilot cut contract review time by 85%** using the platform. - Planning to grow workforce from ~100 to **~300 employees**, with significant **US market expansion**. - Founded in 2023 and achieved this scale in just over two years. ## Competitive Advantages - **Category-defining position**: Wordsmith is not a legal copilot for individual lawyers — it is an **operating system for the entire in-house legal function**, managing complete request flows across the organisation. This system-level approach is a structural shift away from traditional point-tools. - **Conflict-free business model**: Wordsmith sits on the side of the *buyer* of legal services (the in-house team), not the *seller* (law firms). All other legacy tools were built to serve law firms. Wordsmith’s incentives are aligned with removing friction and cost for the enterprise. - **Vertical-first AI strategy**: Deeply specialised in legal workflows rather than a generalist AI platform, making the product deeply relevant and defensible in a $1.1T global legal market. - **Founding team**: Led by a CEO (Ross McNairn), CTO (Volodymyr Giginiak), and COO (Robbie Falkenthal) who blend legal domain expertise with deep AI and engineering capability. ## Strategic Focus - **Scale globally, with a US expansion priority**: The Series B is explicitly earmarked to accelerate growth in the US market. - **Hire exceptional talent**: Grow the team to ~300 people, maintaining a “fewer, better people” philosophy — a small group of brilliant specialists rather than a crowd of generalists. - **Product depth**: Continue to invest in AI agents, global legal intelligence, and deeper integration into enterprise workflows (Slack, Salesforce, Word, Gmail). - **Move beyond task assistance to full automation**: The stated vision is to make legal “the last black box” in the enterprise — measurable, compressed, and owned internally. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Philosophy**: Described as a team of “lawyers and engineers blending two worlds.” Core operating principles include: **“fewer, better people”** (small, elite teams), **relentless focus on simplicity**, and building products that are so elegant they “feel like magic.” The company explicitly values **judgment** as the key differentiator in an AI-powered world. - **Growth Trajectory**: A rare stage — Series B with $100M in funding, a small enough team that individual contributions matter every day, and early enough to shape how the company builds. Significant US expansion ahead. - **Work Environment**: Hybrid (roles listed for Edinburgh and London). The hiring process is transparent and values speed: a 30-min screening call, a 45-min technical interview, a short take-home challenge (a couple of hours), and a culture interview. - **Funding Backing**: Backed by the same investors who backed Figma, Stripe, and Canva — strong signal of ambition and long-term thinking. - **Impact**: Working on a problem that is “genuinely new” — building the platform to run in-house legal teams, which is a category that did not exist before AI made it possible. ## Sources 1. [wordsmith.ai](https://www.wordsmith.ai/) 2. [wordsmith.ai/company](https://www.wordsmith.ai/company) 3. [wordsmith.ai/careers](https://www.wordsmith.ai/careers) 4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/wordsmith-ai) 5. 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