# Lead Product Designer

**Company:** [Circle](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/circle)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $140k – $170k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Figma, Prototyping, Ai-Assisted Design Tools, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Product Design, System Design, AI Workflows, Cursor, Claude Code
**Posted:** 2026-04-02

> Lead product designer owns end-to-end product areas, designs complex multi-user flows, prototypes rapidly with AI tools, influences strategy, and collaborates with engineering. Requires 5-7+ years experience, Figma proficiency, strong communication, and active AI use in design.

## Job Description

## What you'll be doing

- 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

## What you'll need to be successful

- Strong alignment with our values
- Proficient in English at CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5
- **5–7+ years** of product design experience; portfolio showing systems-level thinking, 0→1 work, complex multi-user flows, and product direction influence
- Experience as the most senior designer on a product area—setting direction, making tradeoffs, owning outcomes
- Strong prototyping skills (build clickable prototypes); **bonus**: AI-assisted tools like Cursor, Claude Code, v0, Lovable
- **Proficiency in Figma** for high-fidelity design and collaboration
- Exceptional written and verbal communication for influencing teams asynchronously
- Comfortable designing in ambiguity, building conviction through iteration
- Active, evolving **AI workflow** in design process

**Compensation**: $140,000 - $170,000 USD per year (cash; subject to annual review). Includes equity, benefits, perks. May consider Senior level within range.

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