Lead Product Designer

Circle is seeking a Lead Product Designer to join their Identity Team. This role is a horizontal platform position, 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 how users interact with Roles, Permissions, and Team Management, ensuring these complex systems are intuitive for both admins and end-users.
• Centralized Billing Infrastructure: Designing a scalable billing and subscription system that integrates seamlessly across different parts of 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 and unify fragmented workflows into a cohesive platform experience.
• Design intuitive user interfaces for Roles, Permissions, and Team Management.
• Develop a scalable billing and subscription system that integrates seamlessly across the Circle ecosystem.
• Tackle high-stakes flows like MFA, SSO setup, and account recovery, ensuring robust security without compromising usability.

Requirements

• Proven track record working on platform teams, internal tools, or design systems.
• Mastery of typography, color, layout, and hierarchy in your portfolio.
• Experience wrangling technical complexity and turning messy requirements into clean, logical UIs.
• Expertise in Figma, creating scalable components using auto-layout, variables, and variants.
• Strategic communication skills, able to articulate design decisions and negotiate with engineering partners.
• Empathy for both internal and external users, understanding the needs of both Circle's customers and the developers and designers who build with your tools.

Qualifications

• Strong background in Visual and UI design.
• Exceptional UI & Visual Design Skills: A mastery of fit and finish and pixel perfection.
• Experience with complex systems and processes.
• Ability to communicate effectively with leadership and engineering partners.
• Understanding of the importance of transparency and inclusivity in financial services.

Skills

• Platform & Systems Experience: Working on platform teams, internal tools, or design systems.
• UI & Visual Design Skills: Mastery of typography, color, layout, and hierarchy.
• Complexity Wrangling: Ability to handle technical complexity.
• Component-Based Thinking: Expertise in Figma, creating scalable components.
• Strategic Communication: Ability to articulate design decisions and negotiate with engineering partners.
• Empathy for Internal & External Users: Understanding the needs of both internal and external users.

Benefits

• Transparent compensation range: $172,500 - $225,000 based on relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and organizational needs.
• Equal Opportunity Employer: Circle considers a wide variety of elements when crafting compensation ranges and total compensation packages.
• E-Verify Participation: Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.

Pay

• Base Pay Range: $172,500 - $225,000

Schedule

• Flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.

Company Culture

• High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence are the core values of Circle.