Role Overview As Lead Product Designer, you will own design for Adalat AIs flagship product and help define the design vision across our growing product suite. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who has led small to mid-sized design teams in fast-moving environments and enjoys product ownership. Youll work closely with the founders to define product vision, and with our on-ground legal partnerships team to embed user-first, research-driven practices across the design process. This role is less about pixel-perfect mobile UI and more about systems thinking, product strategy, team leadership, and taste. Key Responsibilities Product Leadership & Ownership • Own problem definition and solution design for Adalat AIs core product areas (Judges Chamber and Live Court) • Partner with founders to shape roadmap decisions, trade-offs, and long-term product and design vision • Lead major feature revamps and workflow improvements • Design for unique constraints of Indian Judiciary: multilingual usage, varying digital literacy, legacy legal processes Design & Team Leadership • Design with and for AI with focus on human-in-the-loop workflows, explainability, and trust in AI-assisted features • Lead, mentor and hire junior designers for our growing design team • Set a high bar for craft, critique, and user-first decision-making • Establish scalable design processes while staying lightweight and execution-focused Systems, Research & Scale • Spearhead Adalat AIs design system • Lead AI-assisted design initiatives to improve velocity and consistency • Build a strong user research and voice of customer pipeline with the partnerships team to ground decisions in real courtroom insights Qualifications • 7+ years of product design experience, with 1–2+ years leading designers • Experience owning complex B2B or workflow-heavy products • Strong systems thinking and experience building or scaling design systems • Comfortable working directly with founders and senior stakeholders • Portfolio showing product thinking, shipped work, and leadership impact Nice to have: Familiarity with legal-tech or gov-tech, experience with AI-driven audio-first products What You Will Achieve in a Year • Overhaul design of our voice-first text editor • Launch multiple text-based AI-powered tools for judiciary • Build and scale our design system to serve 3000+ judges and law staff • Design for one of Indias most complex and impactful systems: the judiciary • Shape both our flagship product and the design culture behind it • High ownership, real-world impact, and room to define how design operates at scale