Design Program Manager

The Role

As a Design Program Manager at Everlaw, you'll establish the operating system for our growing product design team, bringing structure, visibility, and predictability to how we design AI-powered litigation tools. As our first dedicated Design Program Manager, you'll absorb operational friction and cross-functional complexity so product designers can focus entirely on craft, quality, and solving complex user workflows.

This is a full-time, exempt position based in our Oakland, CA office with a hybrid work schedule: in office M/W/Th with the option to work from home on Tu/Fr.

What you'll do

• Own the design operating model for planning and delivery — define how design work is estimated, sequenced, and handed off, and maintain the system that makes dependencies and timeline risk visible before they become escalations.
• Define design readiness criteria and coordinate pre-launch quality reviews to ensure shipped features meet high standards for craft, responsiveness, accessibility, and edge cases.
• Own the working interfaces between Design, Product Management, Engineering, User Research, and Technical Writing — define how scope is agreed, how dependencies are tracked, and where conflicts get decided, so those questions have a standing answ