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# Senior or Staff Product Designer, Design Systems at Harvey

- **Company:** [Harvey](https://feeny.ai/companies/harvey)
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $206k–$315k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-02-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/harvey/aede4098-91f4-44f5-9d53-27c15cb2bae7/application

**Skills:** Design Systems, Component Architecture, Design Tokens, Accessibility Standards, Frontend Engineering Collaboration, Prototyping

> Define and evolve the core design system foundations, including components, patterns, and tokens, to ensure coherence and scalability across AI-powered experiences. Collaborate with engineering to ship production-ready systems while maintaining brand cohesion and accessibility.

## Job description

## Why Harvey

At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come. This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. We have strong product-market fit and world-class investor support. We’re scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth — personal, professional, and financial — is unmatched. Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission — operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you. At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.

## Role Overview

Harvey designs and builds for a legal industry being reshaped by AI, moving with the urgency and ambition the moment demands, not just adapting to change but architecting it. As a Design Systems Designer at Harvey, you will define the foundations that make our product coherent, scalable, and trustworthy as it grows in complexity. The design system is not just a library of components. It is the shared language between design, engineering, and AI that ensures consistency, quality, and confidence across every interaction. This is a design role with unusual technical depth. You lead with design: craft, systems thinking, and a strong point of view on product experience. But you're equally at home in architecture and implementation. You understand how tokens are structured, how components are composed, and how systems are built to scale, and you use that fluency to push the system forward rather than hand decisions over the wall. We're looking for someone who has lived through the evolution of the discipline, someone who understands not just how modern design systems work, but why they're built the way they are, and where the field is heading, especially as AI-native products reshape what a design system needs to be. This role will report to the Design org, and will be based in SF, NYC, or Toronto.

## What you’ll do

- Build an AI-native design system that sets the bar for design quality for Design, Engineering, and Product through technical direction and collaboration
- Design, prototype, and ship production-ready system components in tight collaboration with frontend and platform engineering, with shared ownership of quality, performance, and maintainability
- Define and evolve the core design system foundations (components, patterns, and tokens) that scale across complex, AI-powered experiences
- Push both the architecture and the implementation of the system: shape component APIs, token structure, theming, and composition patterns alongside engineering, not downstream of it
- Advocate for technical approaches with confidence, especially in new or ambiguous territory where established patterns don't yet exist
- Embed accessibility, responsiveness, and performance into the system by default
- Establish clear contribution, governance, and deprecation models that balance velocity with system integrity
- Raise the bar for system quality across the product through design reviews, critique, and hands-on work
- Build alignment across Design, Engineering, and Product through technical direction and collaboration
- Anticipate future product and platform needs, evolving the system proactively as Harvey scales
- Own AI design and implementation workflows for the design team, establishing best practices for prototyping and shipping with AI
- Establish in-code prototyping patterns that make it easier to be innovative and consistent as designers increasingly leverage IDEs to experiment and ship.
- Define AI-assisted design and implementation workflows, establishing best practices for prototyping and shipping with AI
- Document system usage and best practices in a way that is clear, practical, and trusted by product teams

## What you have

- 5+ years (Senior) / 8+ years (Staff) of product design experience, with significant ownership of design systems in complex product environments
- A design portfolio that demonstrates high design craft in system-level thinking, but a strong point of view on quality, and visual cohesion
- Deep design systems expertise, including an understanding of the history and evolution of the discipline. You know why the field moved from style guides to tokens to composable architectures, and you have a point of view on what comes next
- Excellent design engineering communication: you articulate system decisions and tradeoffs fluently to designers, engineers, and cross-functional partners
- Ability to clearly articulate system decisions and tradeoffs to designers, engineers, and cross-functional partners
- Strong knowledge of scalable system architecture and component implementation: component API design, design tokens, theming strategies, and how systems hold up across teams and codebases
- Design Engineer experience preferred, but not required in an AI-first world where the boundary between design and engineering is shifting
- High ownership: you treat the system as a product, not a ticket queue
- Strong opinions, loosely held, being comfortable challenging conventions and evolving best practices as the discipline changes
- Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and bringing structure where it doesn't yet exist

## Why design systems matter at Harvey

Harvey is an AI-native product. As the system reasons, responds, and adapts in real time, the interface must remain consistent and legible. A strong design system ensures that complexity does not leak into the experience. It enables teams to move faster, reduces cognitive load for users, and builds trust in moments where clarity matters most.

## Compensation

$205,760 - $315,000 USD

Depending on your location, an Applicant Privacy Notice may apply to you. You can find all of our Applicant Privacy Notices [[here](https://www.notion.so/harveyai/Harvey-Candidate-Privacy-Policies-319ac3fcdd7a803bb807d5094f249922)].

## #LI-JC1

Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing accommodations@harvey.ai

## About Harvey

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Harvey builds domain-specific AI software for legal and professional services, enabling law firms and in-house teams to automate research, contract analysis, due diligence, and complex workflows.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by leading venture capital firms)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Winston Weinberg (CEO), Gabriel Pereyra (President)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI software for legal and professional services (LegalTech)
- **Target customers**: B2B – large law firms (AmLaw 100), in-house legal teams at Fortune 500 enterprises, mid-sized firms, and professional service networks across 60+ countries.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To enable legal and professional services teams to focus on high-value work by providing a secure, expert AI platform that handles research, drafting, and complex workflows.

## Products & Services
- **Harvey Assistant**: Ask questions, analyze documents, and draft faster with domain-specific AI (SaaS).
- **Harvey Vault**: Securely store, organize, and bulk-analyze legal documents (SaaS).
- **Harvey Knowledge**: Research complex legal, regulatory, and tax questions across domains (SaaS).
- **Harvey Agents**: Purpose-built agents that execute complex legal work end-to-end (SaaS).
- **Harvey Contract Intelligence**: Surface insights, strengthen negotiations, and accelerate reviews (SaaS).
- **Harvey Command Center**: Analytics, benchmarking, and agentic insights for leading AI transformation (SaaS).
- **Harvey Mobile**: Mobile access to stay productive from anywhere (SaaS).
- **Harvey Shared Spaces**: Collaborate with legal teams across organizations in secure shared workspaces (SaaS).
- **Harvey Ecosystem**: Integration with existing tools to ground answers in trusted sources (API/platform).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (company is private).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) – reported in press but exact figure not disclosed; strong growth implied by 1,500+ customers and rapid hiring.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, GV (Google Ventures), OpenAI Startup Fund, Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz, EQT.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Named Time100 Most Influential Companies (2025).
  - LinkedIn Top 50 Startup of 2025.
  - CNBC Disruptor 50 List.
  - 1,500+ customers across 60+ countries, including AmLaw 100 firms.
  - Headcount: ~300 employees (as of mid-2025), with aggressive hiring (254 active job postings).
  - Office expansion: San Francisco, New York City, London.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Domain specialization**: AI models trained specifically for legal and professional services, not generic LLMs.
- **Enterprise security**: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/27701/42001, GDPR, CCPA compliance – meeting law firm security requirements.
- **Deep investor backing**: World-class VC network provides strategic guidance and access.
- **Strong product‑market fit**: Rapid adoption by top-tier law firms and in-house teams, with high switching costs due to embedded workflows.
- **First‑mover in agentic legal AI**: Purpose‑built agents execute end‑to‑end tasks, differentiating from simple document Q&A tools.

## Strategic Focus
- **Customization, collaboration, and simplicity**: Helping teams embed expertise into Harvey, collaborate across firms, and reduce complexity via agentic workflows.
- **Expansion beyond legal**: Long‑term ambition to transform professional services broadly (consulting, accounting, etc.).
- **Product innovation**: Continued investment in agentic AI, mobile access, and ecosystem integrations.
- **Global growth**: Scaling sales and engineering teams in existing hubs and expanding into new markets.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast‑paced, collaborative, ambitious. Values include **Decisiveness** (“take the square root of the weather” – avoid overanalysis), **Simplicity**, and **Job’s Not Finished** (continuous improvement).
- **Work environment**: Hybrid – 3+ days per week in office for roles based in San Francisco, New York City, or London. Some fully remote positions available (clearly marked).
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive health/dental/vision insurance, 401(k) match, paid parental leave (immediately eligible), annual professional development stipend, in‑office daily lunch, and more.
- **Growth opportunities**: Rapidly scaling (~300 employees, 254 open roles) provides internal mobility and ownership of impactful projects.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong blend of AI research (DeepMind background) and legal domain expertise. CTO Siva Gurumurthy recently joined. Emphasis on building secure, enterprise‑grade products.

## Sources
1. [harvey.ai](https://www.harvey.ai/)
2. [harvey.ai/company](https://www.harvey.ai/company)
3. [harvey.ai/blog/landing-a-job-at-harvey](https://www.harvey.ai/blog/landing-a-job-at-harvey)
4. [linkedin.com/company/harvey-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvey-ai)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/harvey](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/harvey)

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