User Experience Designer, AI Solutions
About The Position
McDermott, Will & Schulte LLP is building one of the most ambitious AI programs in the legal industry — and great design is central to making it work. We're looking for a UX Designer to serve as the design authority across our AI Solutions Delivery team: advising analysts on UX approaches, setting the quality bar for every user-facing solution we ship, and stepping in to drive design directly when it matters most. This is not a production design role. It's a judgment role — for a designer who can look at an AI-generated interface and immediately know what's right, what's wrong, and exactly how to make it better. WHY MWS Shape quality standards for an entirely new category of legal AI solutions — from the ground up Work with frontier AI tools to build and run tests faster than traditional QA methods allow High-visibility role reporting to Director of QA with direct impact on every solution the team ships Remote-first, technically rigorous team that takes production quality seriously
Requirements
- 3+ years of UX or product design experience, with a portfolio of shipped digital products
- Strong design judgment — the ability to evaluate any interface, articulate exactly what's working and what isn't, and direct iterative improvement with precision
- AI fluency — you use AI tools regularly, understand their output, and can direct AI-assisted design workflows rather than being dependent on traditional design tooling
- Experience designing for complex workflows — multi-step processes, data-dense interfaces, or tools used by professional or expert users
- Excellent communication and advisory skills — you can explain a design decision to a non-designer stakeholder as confidently as to a developer
- Solid grasp of accessibility standards, responsive design, and web UI fundamentals
- Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, Computer Science, or equivalent demonstrated experience
Nice To Haves
- Experience designing conversational interfaces, AI agents, or prompt-driven workflows
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development and design tools, including code-generating and UI-generating platforms
- Exposure to legal, financial, or other professional services environments
- Experience contributing to or establishing a design system in a fast-moving organization
Responsibilities
- Serve as the UX authority for the AI Solutions Delivery team — advising analysts on design approach, interaction patterns, and user experience strategy for every solution they build
- Review AI-generated UIs produced via AI-assisted development platforms, providing precise, actionable design direction to iterate toward production quality
- Drive UI design directly for high-visibility or complex solutions, taking ownership from concept through delivery
- Establish and maintain UX standards and design patterns across the firm's growing library of AI-powered tools
- Conduct lightweight user research and stakeholder feedback sessions to validate design decisions with attorneys and operational teams
- Champion accessibility, consistency, and usability across all solutions — ensuring AI tools are intuitive for legal professionals, not just technically functional
- Stay ahead of evolving AI interface patterns, conversational UX, and agentic workflow design — bringing emerging best practices to the team
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
1-10 employees
