Circle is building the world’s leading all-in-one platform for online communities, enabling creators, coaches, educators, and businesses to engage their audiences with discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments under their own brand. As a fully remote company of around 200 team members across 30+ countries, Circle emphasizes high expectations, async collaboration, and documentation. The role involves owning design for a critical product area, defining problems, shaping direction, and shipping experiences while partnering with product managers, engineers, and design leadership. AI tools are integral to the design process, and the team seeks someone who already leverages them to push boundaries further.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- Strong alignment with Circle’s values
- Proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5
- 5–7+ years of product design experience
- Portfolio should show systems-level thinking: shipped 0→1 work, complex multi-user flows, and evidence that you shaped the product direction—not just the interface
- Experience operating as the most senior designer on a product area—setting direction, making tradeoffs, and owning outcomes without constant guidance
- Strong prototyping skills—you build clickable, realistic prototypes yourself
- Proficiency in Figma for high-fidelity design and collaboration
- Exceptional written and verbal communication—able to clearly explain complex ideas, influence decisions, and align teams asynchronously
- Comfortable designing in ambiguity and building conviction through iteration, not waiting for perfect requirements
- An active, evolving AI workflow—you already use AI tools in your design process and can speak concretely about how
Nice to have
- Already using AI-assisted prototyping tools like Cursor, Claude Code, v0, or Lovable
Benefits
- U.S.-benchmarked compensation globally
- Equity in the company with ongoing refresh grants
- 35 days of paid time off each year
- Remote-only team with flexibility and autonomy
- Company retreats twice a year in incredible destinations around the world
- Benefits package that supports health, wellbeing, and professional growth
Additional details
- We are hiring at a Lead level for this role; however, we may consider offering this position at the Senior level depending on a candidate’s experience level alignment with the role. In either case, the offer would fall within the published compensation range.
- We’re a fully remote company of around 200 (and growing!) team members from 30+ countries around the world. We seek exceptional individuals around the world, set them up to do the best work of their lives, and in turn, create a meaningful impact in their own lives. We don't track hours, but we do manage for high expectations very closely. We collaborate across time zones, are highly async, and like to document a lot.
- So far, we’ve hosted offsites in Turkey, Portugal, Mexico, Thailand, Colombia, Italy, Ireland, and more, with still more to come!
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