Lead Product Designer

At Circle, we are moving from a phase of rapid expansion to one of sophisticated scale. As we grow, the foundational systems that power our products need to mature.

We are looking for a Lead Product Designer to join our Identity Team. This is a horizontal platform role, meaning you won’t just be building features for one user type; you will be architecting the "front door" of Circle. You will design the systems—like Authentication, Roles & Permissions, and Billing—that every other product team at Circle will rely on.

We need a builder who loves logic, systems, and consistency, but who refuses to compromise on beauty. We are looking for someone with a strong background in Visual and UI design who can bring a level of polish and craft that sets the standard for the rest of the organization.

What you'll work on:

Transforming Chaos into Order: Circle is transforming from a startup to a mature tech organization. You will audit existing, fragmented workflows and unify them into a cohesive platform experience.

Unified Identity: You will design how users experience Roles, Permissions, and Team Management, taking complex logic and making it intuitive for admins and end-users alike.

Centralized Billing Infrastructure: You will design a scalable billing and subscription experience that unifies how customers pay for different parts of the Circle ecosystem.

Security meets UX: You will tackle high-stakes flows like Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), SSO setup, and account recovery, ensuring that security never comes at the expense of usability.

What you’ll bring to Circle:

• Platform & Systems Experience: You have a proven track record working on platform teams, internal tools, or design systems. You understand the difference between designing a feature and designing a framework.

• Exceptional UI & Visual Design Skills: Your portfolio demonstrates a mastery of typography, color, layout, and hierarchy. You care deeply about "fit and finish" and pixel perfection.

• Complexity Wrangling: You are not intimidated by technical complexity. You can take a messy requirements document regarding permissions or enterprise billing and turn it into a clean, logical UI.

• Component-Based Thinking: You are an expert in Figma. You don't just draw screens; you build scalable components using auto-layout, variables, and variants that other designers can easily consume.

• Strategic Communication: As a Lead, you can articulate the "why" behind your design decisions. You are comfortable presenting to leadership and negotiating with engineering partners to maintain design quality.

Empathy for Internal & External Users: You understand that your "users" are both the customers of Circle and the internal developers and designers who have to build with your tools.