Lead Product Designer

About the Position

Lead Product Designer

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 (and growing!) team members from 30+ countries around the world. We seek exceptional individuals around the world, set them up to do the best work of their lives, and in turn, create a meaningful impact in their own lives.

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

Requirements

• Strong alignment with our values
• 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
• 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

We Offer

• U.S.-benchmarked compensation globally
• Equity in the company with ongoing refresh grants
• 35 days of paid time off each year
• Twice a year company retreats in incredible destinations around the world
• Benefits package that supports health, wellbeing, and professional growth

About the Company

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 (and growing!) team members from 30+ countries around the world. We seek exceptional individuals around the world, set them up to do the best work of their lives, and in turn, create a meaningful impact in their own lives.

Check out our Careers page for more about working at Circle.