Lead Product Designer

Circle is seeking a Lead Product Designer to join its 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 into a cohesive platform experience.
• Unified Identity: Design roles, permissions, and team management, making complex logic intuitive for both admins and end-users.
• Centralized Billing Infrastructure: Design a scalable billing and subscription experience that unifies how customers pay across the Circle ecosystem.
• Security meets UX: Tackle high-stakes flows such as Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Single Sign-On (SSO) setup, and account recovery, ensuring security without compromising usability.

Responsibilities

• Audit and unify existing workflows into a cohesive platform experience.
• Design 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 without compromising usability.

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; a portfolio demonstrating pixel perfection.
• Complexity Wrangling: Comfortable with technical complexity; able to transform messy requirements into clean, logical UI.
• Component-Based Thinking: Expertise in Figma; builds scalable components using auto-layout, variables, and variants that other designers can easily consume.
• Strategic Communication: Can articulate the "why" behind design decisions; comfortable presenting to leadership and negotiating with engineering partners.
• Empathy for Internal & External Users: Understands both internal developers and designers who build with your tools and external customers.

Qualifications

• Proven track record working on platform teams, internal tools, or design systems.
• Mastery of typography, color, layout, and hierarchy; a portfolio demonstrating pixel perfection.
• Comfortable with technical complexity; able to transform messy requirements into clean, logical UI.
• Expertise in Figma; builds scalable components using auto-layout, variables, and variants that other designers can easily consume.
• Can articulate the "why" behind design decisions; comfortable presenting to leadership and negotiating with engineering partners.
• Understands both internal developers and designers who build with your tools and external customers.

Skills

• Strong visual and UI design skills.
• Experience with platform teams, internal tools, or design systems.
• Comfortable with technical complexity.
• Expertise in Figma.
• Ability to articulate the "why" behind design decisions.
• Understanding 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.
• Participation in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.

Pay

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

Schedule

• Flexible work environment.