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.

👉 [Apply here](https://www.adalat.ai/careers/lead-product-designer)