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 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 functionalities are intuitive for both administrators 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: Addressing high-stakes flows such as Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Single Sign-On (SSO) setup, and account recovery, while maintaining a balance between security and 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 different parts of the Circle ecosystem.
• Tackle high-stakes flows like MFA, SSO setup, and account recovery, ensuring 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 UI and visual design.
• Experience wrangling technical complexity and turning messy requirements into clean, logical UIs.
• Expertise in Figma, creating scalable components using auto-layout, variables, and variants.
• Strong strategic communication skills, able to articulate design decisions and present to leadership.
• Empathy for both internal and external users, understanding the needs of both Circle's customers and its internal developers/designers.

Qualifications

• Exceptional UI & Visual Design Skills: A portfolio demonstrating mastery of typography, color, layout, and hierarchy.
• Complexity Wrangling: Comfortable with technical complexity and able to transform messy requirements into clean, logical UIs.
• Component-Based Thinking: Expertise in Figma, creating scalable components using auto-layout, variables, and variants.
• Strategic Communication: Strong ability to communicate design decisions effectively and negotiate with engineering partners.
• Empathy for Internal & External Users: Understanding the needs of both Circle's customers and its internal developers/designers.

Skills

• Platform & Systems Experience: Proven track record working on platform teams, internal tools, or design systems.
• UI & Visual Design Skills: Mastery of typography, color, layout, and hierarchy.
• Complexity Wrangling: Comfortable with technical complexity and able to transform messy requirements into clean, logical UIs.
• Component-Based Thinking: Expertise in Figma, creating scalable components using auto-layout, variables, and variants.
• Strategic Communication: Strong ability to communicate design decisions effectively and negotiate with engineering partners.
• Empathy for Internal & External Users: Understanding the needs of both Circle's customers and its internal developers/designers.

Benefits

• Starting pay range: $172,500 - $225,000
• Equal Opportunity Employer
• Participation in the E-Verify Program in certain locations

Pay

• Base Pay Range: $172,500 - $225,000

Schedule

• Not specified