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Senior Manager, User Experience Research
Everlaw INC · 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States
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- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 11 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 1 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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The US Department of Labor certified 11 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 1 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
The Role As Senior Manager, User Experience Research , you'll lead Everlaw's user research function as a strategic player-coach, uncover foundational insights, bring clarity to complex problems and shape the future of our AI-powered litigation platform. You will partner with cross-functional leaders to focus research capacity on the highest-impact questions, personally lead strategic studies, and turn insights into compelling narratives that influence product strategy and priorities. In this role, you will build a durable understanding of our customers, elevate research craft, scale the practice through thoughtful democratization and AI-enabled tools, and develop researchers to do their best work. 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. How we’re different • Built for the AI Era: Everlaw has been committed to AI-assisted workflows for over a decade with tools like predictive coding, document clustering, and ML translation. We’ve continued this leadership into the generative AI era, with best-in-class AI features like deep dive and coding suggestions built with principled design, rigorous controls, and deep workflow expertise. We don’t layer AI onto legal work - we architect intelligent, trustworthy systems grounded in enduring trust. • Pursue truth while finding yours: We pursue truth for our customers and our employees alike. With a generous L&D budget, clearly codified norms, and a commitment to long-term thinking, integrity and discipline, we create an environment where careers grow with intention and purpose. • Design at the core: Design is embedded in product strategy and company direction. Our open, vibrant culture fosters strong belongingness and DEIB scores as reflected in team engagement surveys. We firmly believe that happy people make happy products. • Thoughtful onboarding: From day one, our structured onboarding program integrates you into our product, processes, team, and goals, setting you up to contribute thoughtfully and quickly. • Impact that matters: Through Everlaw for Good, we offer our technology free or at heavily discounted rates to journalists, nonprofits, and pro bono attorneys to advance equitable access to justice beyond the boundaries of business. What you'll do • Set the user research strategy and quarterly roadmap, translating business and product priorities into focused, high-impact research initiatives. • Drive impact through storytelling by synthesizing complex research findings into compelling narratives and durable artifacts that create shared understanding, build conviction, shape product strategy and drive decisions. • Personally lead strategic, highly ambiguous research projects, particularly around how legal professionals evaluate, interact with, and build trust in AI workflows. • Manage a small, high-performing team, creating clarity around roles, expectations, and impact while reinforcing strong performance, research quality, and team accountability. • Set a high bar for rigorous research, thoughtful critique, curiosity, and customer empathy. Help the team apply the right qualitative or quantitative method for the decisions at hand. • Partner closely with leadership across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Data Science to bring customer evidence into key decision-making processes. • Scale the impact of the research function by building self-service frameworks, AI-enabled tools, and operational systems that empower product teams while preserving rigor for critical questions. About you • You have at least 8 years of user research experience, with a track record of shaping product strategy for complex B2B SaaS, enterprise, data-heavy, or regulated product