Head of Design
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Job description
Lead the product design function at Orbital, an AI platform for real estate legal work, reporting to the CTO and setting the design agenda for AI-native products used by legal professionals.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- On-site · London, United Kingdom
What you'll do
- Lead from the product as part of the product engineering leadership team, bringing a strategic design perspective to business challenges
- Form a view on where the product experience is constraining growth and where the interface creates friction for users
- Pressure-test product decisions against user reality and spot bottlenecks in information architecture, interaction patterns, or visual clarity
- Set the design agenda from product context, prioritising information architecture, interaction design, design systems, user research, and AI interface patterns
- Define what AI-native design looks like at Orbital, including explainability, trust, agentic UX and confidence signals
- Set the standard for how Orbital helps lawyers trust AI outputs and present reasoning behind analyses
- Hold the wider team accountable for the quality of the experience shipped
- Build the design function, invest in the team's growth, develop clear ownership, and be accountable for its development over time
What we're looking for
- Significant experience leading product design at a senior level at a scaling B2B tech company
- A track record of sitting at the product leadership table and influencing business decisions
- Experience scaling a design function through a high-growth phase
- Experience designing AI-native products, working through explainability, trust, agentic UX and confidence signals
- Experience designing for expert professional users
- Strong commercial instincts connecting design decisions to adoption, retention and revenue
- Ability to translate product context into a design strategy and challenge existing priorities
- Experience leading through a design team, setting direction and standards without owning every deliverable
Nice to have
- Direct experience of a Series B to Series C growth journey
- Built a design function from an early-stage base rather than inherited one
- Familiarity with legal tech, fintech, compliance tech or another domain where precision and professional accountability shape design decisions
- Experience building or significantly evolving a design system that improved team velocity at scale
Your team
Design
A small team of three designers today, reporting to the CTO and working alongside engineering, product, legal engineering and AI.
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About Orbital
The AI platform for real estate legal work
Orbital connects the legal and physical record for real estate, accelerating due diligence, drafting and negotiation, and deal coordination with legal-grade precision. It is built with former practising real estate lawyers and 250+ years of combined legal expertise.
Mission
To make real estate transactions faster, clearer, and less manual.
Key facts
- AI legal tech for real estate
- Raised a $60m Series B led by Brighton Park Capital, $75m raised to date
- Trusted by 5,000+ real estate professionals, spanning UK Magic Circle and US Am Law 100 firms
- Built with former practising real estate lawyers and 250+ years of combined legal expertise
- Product live and scaling across the UK and US
Partners & customers
What they value
- Flexibility with in-person collaboration
- Ownership and real impact from day one
- Experimentation, rapid learning, and iterating quickly based on real feedback
- Diverse and inclusive team
- Security is everyone's responsibility