Lead Product Designer, Marketplace - 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 twice a year we bring the whole company together for our company offsites in beautiful places around the world.

About Discover

Discover is where Circle becomes visible to the world — the surface where creators get found and people find experiences worth their time. It's a two-sided marketplace problem spanning communities, courses, events, and more.

About the role

As the lead designer, you'll own Discover end-to-end: identifying opportunities, setting design direction, and shipping work that raises the bar for how discovery feels at Circle. You'll work closely with a founder-led product team that has strong vision and high standards.

Note: This role is for designers with deep experience in consumer marketplace products — owning discovery, ranking, and engagement at scale.

What you'll be doing

• Own Discover's design end-to-end: Identify opportunities, frame problems, set design direction, and ship.
• Design AI-driven discovery experiences: Design interfaces, curation experiences, and trust signals that make AI-driven discovery feel effortless and human.
• Serve both sides of the market: Balance creator visibility and consumer confidence at a systems level.
• Prototype at speed: Use AI-assisted tools (Cursor, Claude Code, v0, Lovable) to stress-test ideas fast.
• Mentor and elevate: Raise the craft standard on Discover through your own work and by developing designers.

What you'll need to be successful

• Marketplace or two-sided platform experience (hard requirement).
• 5+ years of product design experience, including shipped 0→1 work and complex multi-user flows.
• Experience as the most senior designer on a product area.
• Genuine fluency with AI-assisted prototyping tools.
• Proficiency in Figma for high-fidelity design and collaboration.
• Proactive communication skills and comfort designing in ambiguity.
• CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5 English proficiency.