Lead Product Designer: AI-Driven, End-to-End Ownership

Circle; Portugal; Remote; EUR 123,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity with refresh grants

35 days PTO

Remote-first with semi-annual retreats

Health & wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Circle is seeking a Senior Product Design Lead to own a key product area end-to-end, defining the problem, shaping direction, and shipping the experience. You’ll report to the product design organization and work as the most senior IC on your product area, partnering directly with product managers, engineers, and design leadership.

In a fully remote, async environment, you’ll raise the bar for the design team, drive craft standards, prototype with AI tools, and influence roadmap conversations

Qualifications

• 5–7+ years of product design experience.
• Portfolio showing systems-level thinking with shipped 0→1 work and multi-user flows.
• Experience as the most senior designer on a product area—setting direction and owning outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own a product area end-to-end: frame the problem, set design direction, and ship—peer to Product and Engineering.
• Design complex multi-step flows serving multiple user types.
• Prototype and test quickly using AI-assisted tools and code-generation workflows.
• Influence product strategy and roadmaps beyond your surface area.
• Raise craft standards: interaction design, visual quality, and attention to detail.
• Collaborate closely with engineers and design engineers to turn concepts into working experiences.
• Mentor and raise the bar for the broader design team.

Skills

Systems thinking

Prototyping

Communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Portfolio

Leadership IC

AI workflow

Tools

Figma

Cursor

Claude Code

v0

Lovable

Job description

Circle is seeking a Senior Product Design Lead to own a key product area end-to-end, defining the problem, shaping direction, and shipping the experience. You’ll report to the product design organization and work as the most senior IC on your product area, partnering directly with product managers, engineers, and design leadership.

In a fully remote, async environment, you’ll raise the bar for the design team, drive craft standards, prototype with AI tools, and influence roadmap conversations