Lead Product Designer

Design the systems behind every Circle product

Circle is hiring a Lead Product Designer for its Identity team, but this isn't a role centered around one isolated feature or customer journey.

You'll be working on the shared infrastructure that sits underneath Circle's broader product ecosystem: authentication, account security, permissions, team management, and billing. The challenge is to take systems that can quickly become complicated and make them feel coherent and surprisingly straightforward.

It's a particularly interesting opportunity for a designer who enjoys the intersection of systems thinking, complex UX, and highly polished interface design.

What you'll be designing

Circle is evolving its product infrastructure as the company scales, and part of your job will be to bring consistency to experiences that have developed across different parts of the platform.

You'll work on areas including:

• Identity and access: Designing clearer experiences around roles, permissions, and team administration.
• Authentication and security: Improving critical journeys such as MFA, SSO configuration, and account recovery without making security feel unnecessarily difficult.
• Billing: Creating a unified approach to subscriptions and payments across Circle's different products.
• Platform consistency: Identifying fragmented workflows and turning them into reusable patterns that can work across the wider ecosystem.
• UI foundations: Building scalable components and interaction patterns that other product teams can confidently reuse.

You'll work closely with Engineering and other product teams, balancing technical requirements with usability and visual quality.

This role goes beyond individual screens

Circle is looking for someone comfortable designing frameworks rather than just features.

You'll need to understand how one design decision can affect multiple products, customer types, and internal teams. That means thinking carefully about edge cases, scalability, technical constraints, and how components behave as the platform evolves.

At the same time, visual craft matters here. Circle wants someone who can bring structure to complicated systems without producing interfaces that feel purely functional or enterprise-heavy.

What they're looking for

A strong candidate will bring experience designing platforms, internal tools, design systems, or other products where reusable patterns and complex logic are central to the work.

You'll also need:

• Excellent UI and visual design skills, particularly around typography, hierarchy, spacing, and layout.
• Experience simplifying technically complicated workflows.
• Advanced Figma skills, including components, variants, variables, and auto layout.
• Strong systems and component-based thinking.
• The ability to communicate design rationale clearly to leadership and engineering partners.
• Confidence navigating ambiguity and defending design quality while working within technical constraints.
• An understanding that platform design serves two audiences: the customers using the experience and the internal teams building products on top of it.

About Circle

Circle builds financial infrastructure around digital assets and blockchain technology. Its ecosystem includes USDC, global payment infrastructure, and tools used by businesses, financial institutions, and developers.

For a designer, that creates an unusual challenge: making sophisticated financial, identity, and security systems understandable without hiding the control and information users need.