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Job Description
Lead Product Designer
Join Circle as a Lead Product Designer and take ownership of design for one of our key product areas. You'll define problems, shape experiences, and work closely with product managers and engineers to deliver impactful solutions.
About the Role
In this role, you will lead design efforts in a critical area of our product. You will determine the direction and ensure that the experience meets user needs. You will collaborate with a talented team and contribute to the overall product strategy. Your work will set a high standard for design across the company.
What You'll Do
- Own a product area from start to finish: identify opportunities, frame problems, set design direction, and ship solutions.
- Design complex, multi-step product flows that cater to different user types, balancing creator needs with member experience.
- Prototype and test quickly using AI-assisted tools and other efficient methods.
- Influence product strategy by contributing to roadmap discussions and identifying opportunities across teams.
- Maintain high craft standards in your area, focusing on interaction design and visual quality.
- Work closely with engineers to turn concepts into working products.
- Elevate the design team through feedback and by sharing best practices.
What We're Looking For
- Strong alignment with our company values.
- Proficiency in English at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5.
- 5–7+ years of product design experience with a portfolio demonstrating systems-level thinking and complex user flows.
- Experience as the senior designer on a product area, making decisions and owning outcomes.
- Strong prototyping skills, with the ability to create realistic prototypes independently.
- Proficiency in Figma for high-fidelity design and collaboration.
- Exceptional communication skills, able to explain complex ideas clearly and align teams.
- Comfortable designing in ambiguity and iterating to build conviction.
- An active use of AI tools in your design process.
Nice to Have
- Experience with AI-assisted prototyping tools like Cursor, Claude Code, v0, or Lovable.
What We Offer
- Fully remote work: you can work from anywhere in the world.
- Autonomy and trust to do your job: we focus on outcomes.
- 35 days of paid time off annually, plus a paid sabbatical after 5 years.
- Generous compensation and startup equity, benchmarked to U.S. standards.
- 100% medical coverage for you and your family, or medical reimbursement options where applicable.
- Parental leave for expanding families.
- Home office stipend to help you set up your workspace.
- Learning and development stipend to enhance your professional skills.
- Annual bonus potential for eligible roles.
- Company retreats twice a year in beautiful locations around the world.
Salary: $140,000 - $170,000 USD per year. This range is a starting point and may vary based on experience. We are hiring at a Lead level, but may consider a Senior level depending on your qualifications.
Candidate Safety & Interview Process Notice
We prioritize the safety and trust of our candidates. All applications are submitted through our official system. If selected, you may be invited to a video interview. We do not conduct interviews via chat apps or use AI bots.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
As a remote international company, diversity is essential to us. We seek talent from underrepresented areas and provide competitive compensation regardless of location.