Lead Product Designer

Circle is seeking a Lead Product Designer to join their Identity Team. This role is part of a horizontal platform, focusing on transforming chaotic workflows into a cohesive platform experience.

About the role

• Transforming Chaos into Order: Audit and unify existing, fragmented workflows.
• Unified Identity: Design roles, permissions, and team management for administrators and end-users.
• Centralized Billing Infrastructure: Design a scalable billing and subscription experience.
• Security meets UX: Tackle high-stakes flows like MFA, SSO setup, and account recovery.

Responsibilities

• Audit existing workflows and unify them into a cohesive platform experience.
• Design how users experience Roles, Permissions, and Team Management.
• Design a scalable billing and subscription experience.
• Tackle high-stakes flows like Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), SSO setup, and account recovery.

Requirements

• Platform & Systems Experience: Proven track record working on platform teams, internal tools, or design systems.
• Exceptional UI & Visual Design Skills: Mastery of typography, color, layout, and hierarchy; attention to detail and pixel perfection.
• Complexity Wrangling: Comfortable with technical complexity; can transform messy requirements into clean, logical UI.
• Component-Based Thinking: Expertise in Figma; builds scalable components using auto-layout, variables, and variants.
• Strategic Communication: Can articulate design decisions; comfortable presenting to leadership and negotiating with engineering partners.
• Empathy for Internal & External Users: Understands both internal developers/designers and external customers.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in platform design and development.
• Mastery of visual and UI design principles.
• Experience with Figma and component-based design.
• Strong communication skills and ability to present design decisions effectively.
• Understanding of user experience across internal and external stakeholders.

Skills

• Visual and UI design skills.
• Component-based thinking and Figma expertise.
• Strategic communication and presentation skills.
• Understanding of user experience across internal and external stakeholders.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment.
• Company values: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence.

Pay

• Base Pay Range: $172,500 - $225,000.

Schedule

• Flexible work schedule.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Health insurance options.
• Retirement savings plans.
• Employee assistance programs.