Lead Product Designer, AI-Driven DevTools (Hybrid SF)

CircleCI Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 148,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

CircleCI is seeking a Lead Product Designer to translate business context into design strategy for developer tooling and platforms. You will guide engineers and product managers to deliver high-impact solutions for complex pipelines, balancing prioritization and craft with delivery speed.

You will be hands-on in shipping features, mentoring designers, and maintaining a high bar for usability and information architecture in a fast-paced, technical environment. Hybrid role based in San Francisco.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product design experience, with at least 5 years designing B2B SaaS products.
• Shipped work in developer tools, DevOps, infrastructure, or another product used primarily by software engineers.
• Hands‑on experience with, and strong working knowledge of, AI code-generation tooling, with an understanding of the technical complexity and tradeoffs of proposed solutions.
• Track record of partnering with engineering and product leaders on roadmap and scope for a product with live production users.
• A portfolio showing sophisticated, creative UX solutions to complex technical problems and a proven grasp of information architecture.

Responsibilities

• Driving measurable business impact through large, wide-ranging projects.
• Leading user journey mapping across complex product experiences.
• Leading competitive analysis and synthesizing insights to inform product direction.
• Shipping small, quick experiments with engineers to validate ideas and drive business outcomes.
• Reviewing team designs and setting quality standards before designs are delivered.

Skills

8+ years of product design experience

Shipped work in developer tools

Hands‑on AI tooling knowledge

Partnership with engineering/product

Strong information architecture

Job description

CircleCI is seeking a Lead Product Designer to translate business context into design strategy for developer tooling and platforms. You will guide engineers and product managers to deliver high-impact solutions for complex pipelines, balancing prioritization and craft with delivery speed.

You will be hands-on in shipping features, mentoring designers, and maintaining a high bar for usability and information architecture in a fast-paced, technical environment. Hybrid role based in San Francisco.