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    Lead Product Designer

    Circle
    Remote
    Remote
    Senior
    Full Time
    3 days ago
    💰$140,000 - $170,000
    remoteleadproduct designerAI toolsfully remoteequitypaid time offmedical coverageparental leavehome office stipend

    Requirements

    • Strong alignment with company values
    • Proficient in English at CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5
    • 5–7+ years of product design experience with systems-level thinking: shipped 0→1 work, complex multi-user flows, and evidence of shaping product direction
    • Experience as the most senior designer on a product area—setting direction, making tradeoffs, and owning outcomes without constant guidance
    • Strong prototyping skills—building clickable, realistic prototypes yourself
    • Proficiency in Figma for high-fidelity design and collaboration
    • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills for explaining complex ideas, influencing decisions, and aligning teams asynchronously
    • Comfortable designing in ambiguity and building conviction through iteration
    • Active, evolving AI workflow using AI tools in design process

    What You'll Do

    • Own a product area end-to-end: identify opportunities, frame the problem, set design direction, and ship—operating as a peer to Product and Engineering, not a downstream executor
    • Design complex, multi-step product flows that serve multiple user types—balancing creator needs against member experience, and making sophisticated behavior feel simple
    • Prototype and test at speed—using AI-assisted tools, code-generation workflows, and whatever gets you to a testable concept fastest
    • Influence product strategy beyond your own surface: contribute to roadmap conversations, flag opportunities other teams miss, and connect dots across the product
    • Drive the craft standard on your area—interaction design, visual quality, and the small details that separate polished product from “good enough”
    • Collaborate closely with engineers and design engineers to turn concepts into working, shippable experiences—not hand off specs and hope
    • Raise the bar for the broader design team through feedback, shared frameworks, and the quality of your own output

    Nice to Have

    • Experience using AI-assisted prototyping tools like Cursor, Claude Code, v0, or Lovable

    Benefits

    • Fully remote: work from anywhere in the world
    • Autonomy and trust to do your job with focus on outcomes
    • 35 days of paid time off annually
    • Paid sabbatical after 5 years
    • Generous U.S. benchmarked compensation and startup equity regardless of location
    • Awesome medical coverage with 100% coverage for you and your family or medical reimbursement options where applicable
    • Parental leave for parents expanding or starting a family
    • Home office stipend
    • Learning & development stipend
    • Annual bonus potential for roles without variable income or commission
    • Company retreats twice a year in various international locations

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