Circle.so - Lead Product Designer
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Requirements
• Strong alignment with our values, find our values on our career page if you haven’t read up on them yet • You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5. • 5–7+ years of product design experience. Your portfolio should show systems-level thinking: shipped 0→1 work, complex multi-user flows, and evidence that you shaped the product direction—not just the interface • Experience operating as the most senior designer on a product area—setting direction, making tradeoffs, and owning outcomes without constant guidance • Strong prototyping skills—you build clickable, realistic prototypes yourself. Bonus if you’re already using AI-assisted prototyping tools like Cursor, Claude Code, v0, or Lovable • Proficiency in Figma for high-fidelity design and collaboration • Exceptional written and verbal communication—able to clearly explain complex ideas, influence decisions, and align teams asynchronously. You write well because that’s how decisions get made in a distributed team • Comfortable designing in ambiguity and building conviction through iteration, not waiting for perfect requirements • An active, evolving AI workflow—you already use AI tools in your design process and can speak concretely about how. This isn’t a checkbox; it’s a real part of how we evaluate fit • $140,000 - $170,000 USD per year
Responsibilities
• Own a product area end-to-end: identify opportunities, frame the problem, set design direction, and ship—operating as a peer to Product and Engineering, not a downstream executor • Design complex, multi-step product flows that serve multiple user types—balancing creator needs against member experience, and making sophisticated behavior feel simple • Prototype and test at speed—using AI-assisted tools, code-generation workflows, and whatever gets you to a testable concept fastest • Influence product strategy beyond your own surface: contribute to roadmap conversations, flag opportunities other teams miss, and connect dots across the product • Drive the craft standard on your area—interaction design, visual quality, and the small details that separate polished product from “good enough” • Collaborate closely with engineers and design engineers to turn concepts into working, shippable experiences—not hand off specs and hope • Raise the bar for the broader design team through feedback, shared frameworks, and the quality of your own output
Benefits
• Fully remote: work from anywhere in the world! • Autonomy and trust to do your job: we care about outcomes over everything else. • Paid time away: all employees are given 35 days of PTO annually. We also offer a paid sabbatical after 5 years. • Generous U.S. benchmarked compensation and startup equity no matter where you are in the world.* • Awesome medical coverage with 100% coverage for you and your family, or medical reimbursement options where applicable!* • Parental leave for parents expanding their family, or just starting one. • Learning & development stipend to help you level up your professional skills. • Annual bonus potential for roles that don't already receive variable income or commission. • Company retreats: Twice a year, the Circle team gets together for a fully paid company retreat in incredible places around the world! We’ve had past retreats in Colombia, Portugal, and Mexico, with more planned on the horizon. • Check out our Careers page for more. • Your role, location and unique circumstance may affect this. • Candidate Safety & Interview Process Notice • At Circle, the safety and trust of our candidates is extremely important to us. Unfortunately, recruiting fraud is increasingly common in the job market, and bad actors sometimes impersonate companies or employees. • To help protect you, here’s what you can expect from our hiring process: • How Our Process Works • All applications are submitted through our official applicant tracking system (Greenhouse). • If selected to move forward, you may be invited to record a short introductory video, or directly into a live interview. • All live interviews are conducted face-to-face over video (Zoom or Google Meet) with a member of the Circle team. • We do not conduct text-only interviews. • We do not conduct interviews via chat apps or messaging platforms. • We do not use AI bots to interview candidates. • Official Communication Channels • All official communication from Circle will come from [email protected], or an email address ending in @circle.co or @circle.so. • We will never contact you from unofficial domains (such as “.team”, “.careers”, or similar variations). • We will never request sensitive personal information early in the process, or ask for payment of any kind. • If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Circle, please do not respond. • We appreciate your vigilance, and look forward to connecting with you through our official channels. • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion • As a fully-remote international company, diversity is baked into our DNA. Here’s how our CEO, Sid Yadav, frames our hiring mission: “let’s find talent in underserved and under-represented corners of the world, set them up to do the best work of their lives, and in turn, change their life.” To achieve this hiring mission, we offer competitive U.S. benchmarked compensation no matter where someone’s located in the world, and we proactively seek candidates who expand representation of backgrounds, cultures and lived experiences in our teams. • Equal Employment Opportunity
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