Lead Product Designer (AI-First, Community Platform) — Circle, Remote Worldwide
About Circle
Circle is building an AI-powered, all-in-one platform for digital businesses — helping creators, coaches, educators, and brands bring together audiences with discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments, all under their own brand. It's a fully remote company of around 270 people across 30+ countries, highly async, documentation-first, and united by twice-yearly company offsites in places like Portugal, Mexico, and Thailand.
About the Role
We're looking for a Lead Product Designer to own design for one of Circle's most important product areas. You define the problem, shape the direction, and ship the experience — not wait for a brief. Reporting into the product design organization, you'll be the most senior design IC on your product area, partnering directly with product managers, engineers, and design leadership.
What You'll Be Doing
- Own a product area end-to-end: identify opportunities, frame the problem, set direction, and ship
- Design complex, multi-step flows that serve multiple user types — balancing creator needs with member experience
- Prototype and test at speed using AI-assisted tools and code-generation workflows
- Influence product strategy beyond your own surface, connecting dots across the product
- Drive craft standards — interaction design, visual quality, and the details that separate polished from "good enough"
- Collaborate with engineers and design engineers to ship working experiences, not hand off specs
- Raise the bar for the broader design team through feedback and shared frameworks
What You'll Need
- 5–7+ years of product design experience with a portfolio showing systems-level thinking
- Shipped 0→1 work and complex multi-user flows, with evidence you shaped product direction
- Proficiency in English (C2 level) and strong alignment with Circle's values
- A workflow that already embraces AI tools daily
Why Join?
This is a true anywhere-in-the-world role: no hours tracking, async collaboration across time zones, high ownership, and a team that treats AI as how work gets done — not a buzzword. If you're a senior designer who wants your fingerprints on an entire product area, this is it.
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