<p>nu:legal is building the first AI platform that takes legal, regulatory, and bureaucratic processes off companies' plates end-to-end. Not for law firms, but for the companies themselves, from mid-sized businesses to fast-growing teams that finally want their legal handled without the hassle. We're a small, ambitious team in Berlin/Potsdam.</p> <p>You own the entire design area as the first and central designer in the company. That means no art director and no huge structure. Instead, real influence, real responsibility, and a product you shape from the start.</p> <h2>Tasks</h2> <ul> <li>Own UX as your core focus: plan and run user tests with real users, analyze them, and turn the insights directly into product improvements.</li> <li>Evolve the nu:legal product, from UX concept through UI design to implementation in Figma.</li> <li>Actively maintain and grow our existing design system, components, tokens, and patterns, so it scales with the product and stays usable for engineering.</li> <li>Work closely with engineering, marketing, and management, iteratively and directly.</li> <li>Beyond the product, help shape what we show the outside world: brand, marketing assets, and website.</li> </ul> <h2>Requirements</h2> <ul> <li>At least 3 years of professional experience in product design / UX and UI. You can independently run a complete design process.</li> <li>You're a Figma pro: components, variants, auto layout, design tokens, design library.</li> <li>You can make and defend clear, well-reasoned design decisions, even when you're the only designer in the room.</li> <li>You're good at reducing complexity: not leaving things out, but making them understandable.</li> <li>You're comfortable with AI tools and ready to use them to optimize and rethink processes.</li> <li>You bring your own ideas, work in a structured way, and take ownership of the entire design area.</li> <li>You question existing workflows and product decisions, are open to real innovation, and use AI actively as a tool.</li> </ul> <h2>Benefits</h2> <ul> <li>Competitive salary plus equity. You build with us, you participate in the upside.</li> <li>Real design ownership over a product from day one.</li> <li>Direct collaboration with the founders and a small, ambitious team.</li> <li>Regular home-office days and one month of remote work anywhere.</li> <li>Top equipment (laptop, design monitor).</li> </ul> <p><strong>Application Process</strong></p> <ul> <li>Intro call (~30 min): a first read on both sides and a check against the honest "What to expect".</li> <li>Design interview: we go through your portfolio, your process, and your UX decisions together.</li> <li>Practical design task: compact and on real problems, not a throwaway test.</li> <li>Meet the team.</li> <li>Final conversation with the CEO/founder.</li> <li>Offer.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Application</strong></p> <p>Include a link to your work (portfolio, case studies, Figma files). You'll convince us more with real content and