Lead Product Designer

About the Company

Adalat AI is building an end-to-end justice tech stack that automates manual and clerical pain points in courtrooms, giving judges back time to focus on what matters most: decision-making and delivering justice. Our solutions - from AI-powered transcription in Indian languages to case-flow management and document navigation - are now deployed across 9 states, covering nearly 20% of India’s judiciary. Backed by leading technology companies and funders, and incubated at MIT and Oxford, Adalat AI is working to eliminate judicial delays and expand access to timely justice. Founded by a team with backgrounds in law, technology, and economics from Harvard, Oxford, MIT, and IIIT Hyderabad, we are scaling rapidly across India and the Global South.

Role Overview

As Lead Product Designer, you will own design for Adalat AI’s 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.

You’ll 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 AI’s core product areas
• 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 AI’s 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

• 8-10 years of product design experience, with 2-3 years leading a team
• 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

• Launch multiple text-based AI-powered tools for judiciary
• Build and scale our design system to serve thousands of judges and law staff
• Design for one of India’s 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

Join Our Team

If you're driven by meaningful work and want to build technology that changes how justice is delivered — we'd love to hear from you. Apply now and be part of a team that ships fast, thinks deeply, and works on problems that matter.

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Interview Process

We keep our process straightforward and transparent. Here's what to expect:

R1 — Intro Call (30 minutes)
An introduction to Adalat AI — our mission, the problem we're solving, and an initial conversation around role fit.

R2 — Design Deep-Dive (45 minutes)
A discussion on your past experience, design process, and how your background connects to the work we're doing.

R3 — Portfolio Review (60 minutes)
A walkthrough of your portfolio with a cross-functional panel — walk us through your work, decisions, and design thinking.

R4 — Culture Fit — Founder Chat (30 minutes)
A conversation with one or more of our founders to assess mutual fit and shared values.

R5 — Offer
If it's a great match on both sides, we'll move forward with an offer.

Note: The process may vary depending on seniority and role. For lead roles, a whiteboarding challenge may be added after the portfolio review.