Senior Architect, User Experience

Summary

Join Onit as a Senior Architect, User Experience in Pune, India, partnering with product and engineering teams to design intuitive and secure experiences for our LegalTech platform. You will lead design for features developed by Pune engineering squads, conduct research with legal practitioners, and act as the UX voice for the Pune site, aligning local delivery with global standards. This role involves mentoring junior designers, influencing product roadmaps, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will define and track UX measures, maintain design documentation, and contribute to the design system. Success involves rapid design turnaround, increased user satisfaction, reduced onboarding time, consistent design system application, and high collaboration scores.

Requirements

• 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 LegalTech, 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

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

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