Lead Product Designer, Marketplace

Circle; Portugal; Teletrabalho; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Equity with refresh grants

35 days paid time off

Remote-first with luncheons/retreats

Resumo da oferta

Circle is seeking a Lead Designer for Discover, an end-to-end design lead role in a privacy-conscious, AI-driven marketplace. You will identify opportunities, set direction, and ship experiences that elevate discovery at scale across creators and consumers.

You will join a founder-led team with strong vision, ownership, and a data-informed, async culture. You will mentor designers, collaborate across time zones, and help us deliver on Circle’s ambitious product roadmap.

Qualificações

• 5+ years of product design experience, including shipped 0→1 work and multi-user flows.
• Experience leading design direction for a product area with ownership of outcomes.
• Proficiency with AI-assisted prototyping tools and rapid iteration.

Responsabilidades

• Own design end-to-end for Discover: frame problems, set direction, and ship features.
• Connect platform components to support discovery across communities, courses, and events.
• Design AI-driven discovery experiences, including interfaces, curation, and trust signals.

Conhecimentos

Marketplace design

AI-assisted prototyping

Design leadership

Figma proficiency

Cross-functional collaboration

Ferramentas

Cursor

Claude Code

v0

Lovable

Descrição da oferta de emprego

About Circle

• Circle is building the world’s leading AI-powered, all-in-one platform for digital businesses.


• They make it possible for creators, coaches, educators, and businesses to bring together their audience with engaging discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments — all in one place, all under their own brand.


• The company is fully remote with around 270 (and growing!) team members from 30+ countries.


• They do not track hours, but manage for high expectations closely.


• The team collaborates across time zones, is highly async, and documents extensively.


• Twice a year, the company holds offsites in locations such as Turkey, Portugal, Mexico, Thailand, Colombia, Italy, and Ireland.

About the Role

• Discover is a two-sided marketplace spanning communities, courses, events, and more.


• You’ll own Discover end-to-end as the lead designer: identifying opportunities, setting design direction, and shipping work that raises the bar for how discovery feels at Circle.


• You’ll work closely with a founder-led product team that has strong vision and high standards.


• You’ll join a design team where context is shared openly, ownership is real, and talented people are trusted to do their best work.


• This role is for designers with deep experience in consumer marketplace products — owning discovery, ranking, and engagement at scale.


• The challenge involves serving two audiences with opposing needs: creators who need visibility, trust signals, and growth; and consumers who need signal through noise, confidence to commit, and experiences that deliver on their promise.


• AI is the core interaction model — not a filter or a recommendation widget, but the primary way Discover understands intent and surfaces what’s worth someone’s time.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Own Discover’s design end-to-end: identify opportunities, frame problems, set design direction, and ship.


• Connect dots across the platform, understanding how a community business compound product feeds into what Discover surfaces.


• Design AI-driven discovery experiences, including interfaces, curation experiences, and trust signals that make AI-driven discovery feel effortless.


• Serve both sides of the market by understanding how creator visibility is earned and how consumer confidence is built at a systems level.


• Prototype at speed using AI-assisted tools like Cursor, Claude Code, v0, and Lovable.


• Stay in the problem through to launch, working closely with engineers to close the gap between concept and shipped experience.


• Mentor and elevate the craft standard on Discover through personal work and by developing other designers.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong alignment with company values.


• Proficiency in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5.


• Marketplace or two-sided platform experience (hard requirement), specifically designing for both sides of a market and shaping outcomes.


• 5+ years of product design experience, including shipped 0→1 work, complex multi-user flows, and evidence of driving product direction.


• Experience as the most senior designer on a product area, setting direction, making tradeoffs, and owning outcomes without constant guidance.


• Genuine fluency with AI-assisted prototyping using tools like Cursor, Claude Code, v0, or Lovable.


• Proficiency in Figma for high-fidelity design and cross-functional collaboration.


• Proactive communication, sharing thinking early and keeping the team informed.


• Comfort designing in ambiguity and building conviction through iteration.

Compensation & Benefits

• Hiring is at a Lead level, but may be considered at a Senior level depending on experience.


• Circle offers 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 twice-yearly company retreats.


• Benefits package that supports health, wellbeing, and professional growth.