Lead Product Designer

Overview

Lead Product Designer cle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. Circle’s platform includes the world’s largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC, Circle Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet.

Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Circle to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation. Learn more at

• Lead Product Designer on the Identity Team; work on a horizontal platform to architect the front door of Circle and design systems such as Authentication, Roles & Permissions, and Billing that other product teams rely on.
• Audit existing, fragmented workflows and unify them into a cohesive platform experience.
• Design how users experience Roles, Permissions, and Team Management, making complex logic intuitive for admins and end-users alike.
• Design a scalable centralized billing and subscription experience that unifies how customers pay for different parts of the Circle ecosystem.
• Address high-stakes flows like Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), SSO setup, and account recovery with usability and security.

• Platform & Systems
  
  Experience:
  
  proven track record on platform teams, internal tools, or design systems; understand designing a framework as well as a feature.
• Exceptional UI & Visual Design
  
  Skills:
  
  strong typography, color, layout, hierarchy; attention to finish and pixel perfection.
• Complexity Wrangling: ability to translate messy requirements into clean, logical UI.
• Component-Based Thinking: expert in Figma; build scalable components with auto-layout, variables, and variants for reuse.
• Strategic Communication: able to articulate the rationale behind design decisions and present to leadership; able to negotiate with engineering partners to maintain design quality.

Empathy for Internal & External Users:
You understand users are both Circle customers and internal developers and designers who build with your tools.

Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core. Compensation ranges and total compensation packages vary by factors including experience, skill set, and location. Base Pay Range: $157,500 - $207,500.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other protected status required by law. Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.

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