Lead Platform Product Designer - Remote, High-Impact UX

Cycloid; France; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote work

Home office setup budget up to €1200

Choose your own device policy

One company retreat per year somewhere

Competitive salary and benefits

Job summary

Cycloid is seeking a Lead Product Designer to drive the design vision of our platform. You will shape product direction, craft high-quality design, and collaborate with product, frontend, backend, and DevOps teams to deliver impactful features.

This is a hands-on design role focused on complex workflows and platform UX, with autonomy and strong alignment to business goals. Fluency in English is required; French is a plus.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in product design with lead/senior ownership > 10 years.
• Ability to start from scratch a team and scale it up to 5 designers.
• Experience designing complex digital products, developer tools, platforms or technical SaaS.
• Excellent skills in interaction design, UX architecture, and visual/UI design.
• Solid understanding of frontend fundamentals and ability to read code.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the product design vision for Cycloid, in alignment with product strategy and company goals.
• Design new product features end to end, from discovery and user flows to prototypes, high fidelity UI, and iterative improvements.
• Lead design decisions on complex, technical topics such as platform UX, permissions, workflows, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, frontend, backend, and DevOps teams to define requirements, challenge solutions, and validate designs.
• Ensure consistency, scalability, and quality across the product through design systems and shared patterns.
• Collaborate closely with another product designer in the team through regular feedback, design reviews, and day to day collaboration - making sure they are working toward your vision.
• Work closely with frontend engineers to translate designs into high quality Vue.js implementations, and when relevant, implement visual or interaction changes yourself.
• Provide a clear weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly retrospective and reporting to the Founder.

Skills

Lead product designer

Team scaling

UX architecture

Interaction design

English fluency

French (bonus)

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Tools

Vue.js

Job description

Cycloid is seeking a Lead Product Designer to drive the design vision of our platform. You will shape product direction, craft high-quality design, and collaborate with product, frontend, backend, and DevOps teams to deliver impactful features.

This is a hands-on design role focused on complex workflows and platform UX, with autonomy and strong alignment to business goals. Fluency in English is required; French is a plus.