Lead Product Designer - Circle

About Us

Circle is building the world’s leading AI-powered, all-in-one platform for digital businesses. We make it possible for creators, coaches, educators, and businesses to bring together their audience with engaging discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments — all in one place, all under their own brand.

We’re proud to be a fully remote company of around 270 team members from 30+ countries around the world. We collaborate across time zones, are highly async, and like to document a lot. Twice a year, we bring the whole company together in beautiful places around the world for our company offsites.

About the Role

You’ll own design for one of Circle’s most important product areas. That means you define the problem, shape the direction, and ship the experience—not wait for a brief. The specific area will be determined based on your strengths and company priorities.

You’ll report into the product design organization and work as the most senior design IC on your product area, partnering directly with product managers, engineers, and design leadership.

Circle’s design team builds with AI tools daily: exploring product directions, prototyping with code-generation tools, and stress-testing ideas faster than traditional workflows allow. We’re looking for someone who already works this way and wants to push it further.

What You'll Be Doing

• Own a product area end-to-end: identify opportunities, frame the problem, set design direction, and ship.
• Design complex, multi-step product flows that serve multiple user types, balancing creator needs against member experience.
• Prototype and test at speed using AI-assisted tools and code-generation workflows.
• Influence product strategy beyond your own surface and connect dots across the product.
• Drive the craft standard on your area—interaction design, visual quality, and polish.
• Collaborate closely with engineers and design engineers to turn concepts into working experiences.
• Raise the bar for the broader design team through feedback and shared frameworks.

What You'll Need to Be Successful

• Strong alignment with Circle's company values.
• Proficiency in English (CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5).
• 5–7+ years of product design experience with shipped 0→1 work, complex multi-user flows, and evidence of shaped product direction.
• Experience operating as the most senior designer on a product area.
• Strong prototyping skills (bonus for experience with AI-assisted tools like Cursor, Claude Code, v0, or Lovable).
• Proficiency in Figma for high-fidelity design and collaboration.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication for async, distributed environments.
• Comfort designing in ambiguity and building conviction through iteration.
• An active, evolving AI workflow used in your daily design process.

Compensation & Benefits

• U.S.-benchmarked compensation globally.
• Company equity with ongoing refresh grants.
• 35 days of paid time off each year.
• Annual company retreats in international destinations.
• Comprehensive benefits supporting health, wellbeing, and professional growth.