Lead Product Designer

Circle; United States; Remote; USD 157,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative financial technology company is seeking a Lead Product Designer to shape the future of currency and payments solutions. In this pivotal role, you will drive design outcomes that enhance customer engagement and satisfaction, working closely with cross-functional teams. With a commitment to excellence and integrity, you will help foster a strong design culture, ensuring that your contributions impact millions of users globally. Join a forward-thinking firm that values diversity and is dedicated to creating an inclusive financial future, where your creativity and expertise will thrive.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of UX or product design experience.
• Strong contributions to design culture and team elevation.
• Ability to connect work across product areas.

Responsibilities

• Drive design outcomes that meet customer needs.
• Collaborate across teams to align on solutions.
• Leverage data to inform decision making.

Skills

UX Design

Product Design

Service Design

Customer-Centric Work

Job description

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Circle is a financial technology company at the epicenter of the emerging internet of money, where value can finally travel like other digital data — globally, nearly instantly and less expensively than legacy settlement systems. This ground-breaking new internet layer opens up previously unimaginable possibilities for payments, commerce and markets that can help raise global economic prosperity and enhance inclusion. Our infrastructure – including USDC, a blockchain-based dollar – helps businesses, institutions and developers harness these breakthroughs and capitalize on this major turning point in the evolution of money and technology.

What You’ll Be Part Of

Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we're expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: Multistakeholder, Mindfulness, Driven by Excellence and High Integrity. Circlers are consistently evolving in a remote world where strength in numbers fuels team success. We have built a flexible and diverse work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

Circle is looking for a Lead Product Designer to drive design outcomes that meet our customer needs, offering them new ways to interact and engage with currency, treasury, and payments solutions. You’ll own the end-to-end design for your product space, partnering with Product Management, Engineering, and our customers to craft solutions that will be used by thousands of businesses to impact millions of end-users around the world.

What You'll Work On

• Driving an understanding of our customers and their needs in the rapidly changing crypto and blockchain problem space
• Identifying and prioritizing customer needs with your product and engineering partners
• Collaborating across many teams at Circle to drive early alignment around problem spaces and their possible solutions
• Leveraging quantitative and qualitative data to inform both yours and stakeholders’ decision making
• Contributing to a growing design team, helping install best practices and processes as we scale

You Will Aspire To Our Four Core Values

• Multistakeholder - dedication and commitment to our customers, shareholders, employees, and communities.
• Mindful - respectful, active listening, attention to detail.
• Driven by Excellence - relentlessly pursue excellence, do not tolerate mediocrity, work intensely to achieve goals.
• High Integrity - open and honest communication, high moral and ethical standards, reject manipulation and dishonesty.

What You’ll Bring To Circle

• Lead Product Designer
• More than 7 years of UX or product design experience, owning end-to-end design of products/features
• Contributions to a strong design culture, customer-centric work, elevating team members
• Ability to connect work across product areas to solve related problems
• Experience with service design challenges and complex workflows

Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core. Compensation is crafted considering various elements including experience, skills, and organizational needs. Starting pay is based on relevant factors.

Base Pay Range: $157,500 - $207,500

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability. Circle participates in the E-Verify Program where required.

If you need accommodations during the interview process, contact [e-mail]. We respect your privacy and will address your needs separately.

Additional Details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Design, Art/Creative, and IT