We’re building a world-class team to redefine knowledge work with AI

Zeno is a legal AI startup building a platform that helps lawyers research, review, and draft documents with real legal reasoning — not just text prediction. We’re developing technology that can:

• Search and retrieve statutes, case law, and commentary with high precision.

• Reason step-by-step, applying legal tests and weighing precedents.

• Explain every answer transparently, so lawyers can trace conclusions back to the exact sources.

Where most tools automate surface-level tasks, we’re focused on replicating the way lawyers actually think through legal problems, making depth and trust the foundation of everything we build.

You’re joining an early-stage startup that is already working with leading firms. Backed with €3M in seed funding, we’re now scaling a team of engineers and thinkers who want to solve real problems, drive innovation, and create lasting change in the legal sector.

The role

Zeno is building an intelligence-native product for legal work. Not “chat for lawyers” — a system professionals can rely on when the stakes are real.

As a Staff Product Designer, you’ll shape how a complex product comes together into a clear, reliable experience for legal professionals. You’ll work at the system level: defining how research, document work, drafting, and revision connect, how users stay oriented, and how trust is built through design choices that hold up under pressure.

A big part of the role is designing the intelligence layer of the product: the shared interaction model that makes AI work consistently across multiple workflows and surfaces. You’ll establish coherent mental models that users actually adopt — especially as the product scales and complexity increases.

You’ll partner closely with product, engineering, and leadership to influence direction, while staying deeply hands-on in interaction and visual craft. This is a high-ownership role for a designer who likes hard, ambiguous problems and wants real responsibility for how the product evolves as it scales.

What you’ll be working on

• Lead design across the core product

  Drive coherence across workflows so Zeno feels like one system, not a bundle of features.

• Design the intelligence system

  Define how intelligence behaves across the product — consistent patterns for how Zeno reads, reasons, drafts, revises, and explains itself, so users build a clear mental model of what’s happening and what to do next.

• Influence product direction through design

  Help frame the hardest problems, challenge assumptions early, and make calls on when to simplify vs. when to introduce more capability.

• Set and raise the quality bar

  Establish standards for interaction, hierarchy, accessibility, and polish, and ensure the bar holds as speed and scope increase.

• Ship tightly with engineering

  Work side-by-side with engineers to make thoughtful tradeoffs, move fast, and keep the experience strong in real usage.

• Design for work that unfolds over time

  Create flows for iterative, revision-heavy work — new documents, new facts, changing conclusions, and ongoing accountability.

What we’re looking for

• 8+ years of product design experience (or equivalent) with a portfolio showing shipped, complex work — ideally in B2B or professional software.

• Strong interaction design instincts and high visual craft; you sweat details without losing the system.

• You’ve designed system-level experiences that span multiple workflows and surfaces, not just isolated features.

• You’re comfortable in high-stakes domains where clarity, reliability, and traceability matter more than novelty.

• You think in prototypes — it’s how you explore interactions, validate complexity, and decide what the product should feel like before it’s built.

• You can move fluidly between hands-on execution and higher-level product thinking.

• You communicate clearly, take feedback well, and can build trust across product, engineering, and leadership.

Nice to have

• Experience designing AI-assisted workflows where trust, control, and “why” matter.

• High fluency with AI tools to explore, prototype, or build interaction concepts quickly.

• Experience in legal, finance, healthcare, or other high-accountability domains.

• Familiarity with design systems and scaling patterns across a product.

The ride from startup to scale-up

Things will break, priorities will shift, and there won’t always be a playbook. You’ll wear multiple hats, ship fast, and learn faster. Some weeks will feel chaotic, some problems will feel bigger than your role. That’s the nature of the ride from startup to scale-up: if you need stability and structure, this won’t fit. But if you thrive on ownership, speed, and building from zero, you’ll love it here.

Why join us

• Be part of a product-driven team reinventing how legal professionals work.

• Join early and shape the foundation of a fast-growing, high-impact startup.

• Work in a place where hierarchy doesn’t matter — only the best ideas do.

• Collaborate with a top-tier team of engineers, researchers, and entrepreneurs.

• Competitive compensation, employee benefits and strong upside as we grow.

• An inspiring place to work in the heart of Rotterdam.

Shape the future of legal work with us.

Department

Design

Locations

Rotterdam

Remote status

Hybrid