Senior Architect, User Experience

Senior Architect, User Experience

Pune, India

Overview:

hands‑on UX functional leader

Key Responsibilities

Hands‑On Experience Design

• Own end‑to‑end design for features developed by Pune engineering squads—from discovery and journey mapping to wireframes, prototypes, and high‑fidelity specs.
• Conduct primary and secondary research with legal practitioners across APAC to uncover regional needs and ensure inclusive, accessible design.

Functional Leadership & Evangelism

• Act as the UX voice for the Pune site, aligning local delivery with our global design system, brand guidelines, and accessibility standards.
• Provide design critique, coaching, and knowledge‑sharing across time zones; mentor junior designers.
• Influence product roadmaps with data‑driven insights, usability metrics, and research‑backed recommendations.

Collaboration & Process

• Embed with cross‑functional scrum teams, ensuring design representation during planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Legal SMEs, and Customer Success to simplify legal workflows—such as CLM, e‑billing, document automation, and matter management—without sacrificing accuracy or control.

Operational Excellence

• Define and track UX measures relevant to legal tech adoption (e.g., time‑to‑contract, error reduction, task success rates).
• Maintain design documentation, contribute to the Figma‑based design system, and steward research repositories for continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional UX/UI design experience for B2B or SaaS applications, with demonstrable depth as an individual contributor.
• Proven success designing solutions for regulated, workflow‑heavy, or complex domains—ideally Legal Tech, FinTech, or HealthTech.
• Deep understanding of human‑centered design, information architecture, and accessibility in enterprise software.
• Fluency with Figma, Miro, Dovetail, and analytics platforms such as Mixpanel or FullStory.
• Experience collaborating with distributed teams and working autonomously within a remote‑first environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience on legal platforms (e.g., CLM, ELM, legal spend management, or contract analytics).
• Understanding of legal and compliance considerations (audit trails, permissioning models, security protocols).
• Familiarity with legal personas: lawyers, paralegals, general counsel, legal ops managers, contract admins.

What Success Looks Like

• Rapid design turnaround that supports on‑time delivery of Pune engineering sprints.
• Increased adoption and satisfaction among legal users across roles and jurisdictions.
• Measurable reduction in onboarding time and task completion cycles for key legal workflows.
• Consistent application of the global design system across new features shipped from Pune.
• High collaboration scores from Product, Engineering, and Legal stakeholders.

About Onit

Onit creates solutions that transform best practices into smarter workflows, better processes, and operational efficiencies. We do this for legal, compliance, sales, IT, HR and finance departments. We specialize in enterprise legal management, matter management, spend management, contract management and legal holds. We also specialize in AI/ML (NLP) based models for our platform for contract reviews.

Onit partners with businesses to build custom enterprise-wide software solutions that can be implemented quickly, are easy to use, and drive better decisions.