Lead Product Designer

Circle is seeking a Lead Product Designer to join our Identity Team. This role is part of a horizontal platform team, focusing on designing foundational systems like Authentication, Roles & Permissions, and Billing that all other product teams at Circle will rely on.

About the role

• Transforming Chaos into Order: Circle is evolving from a startup to a mature tech organization. The Lead Product Designer will audit and unify fragmented workflows into a cohesive platform experience.
• Unified Identity: Designing intuitive experiences for Roles, Permissions, and Team Management, catering to both admins and end-users.
• Centralized Billing Infrastructure: Designing a scalable billing and subscription experience that integrates seamlessly across the Circle ecosystem.
• Security meets UX: Tackling high-stakes flows such as Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Single Sign-On (SSO) setup, and account recovery, ensuring robust security without compromising usability.

Responsibilities

• Audit existing, fragmented workflows and unify them into a cohesive platform experience.
• Design the systems for Roles, Permissions, and Team Management, making complex logic intuitive for both admins and end-users.
• Design a scalable billing and subscription experience that unifies how customers pay for different parts of the Circle ecosystem.
• Tackle high-stakes flows like MFA, SSO setup, and account recovery, ensuring security never comes at the expense of usability.

Requirements

• Proven track record working on platform teams, internal tools, or design systems.
• Mastery of typography, color, layout, and hierarchy in your portfolio.
• The ability to wrangle technical complexity and translate it into clean, logical UI designs.
• Expertise in Figma, creating scalable components using auto-layout, variables, and variants.
• Strategic communication skills to articulate design decisions and negotiate with engineering partners.
• Empathy for both internal and external users, understanding the needs of developers and designers who will build with your tools.

Qualifications

• Strong background in Visual and UI design.
• Adept at bringing a level of polish and craft that sets the standard for the organization.
• Experience with complex requirements documents and turning them into clean, logical UIs.
• Comfortable presenting to leadership and negotiating with engineering partners to maintain design quality.

Skills

• Platform & Systems Experience
• Exceptional UI & Visual Design Skills
• Complexity Wrangling
• Component-Based Thinking
• Strategic Communication
• Empathy for Internal & External Users

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

• Full-time

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Employee discounts
• Professional development opportunities