产品设计负责人
Lead Product Designer
关于公司
Circle 正在打造全球领先的 AI 驱动的全方位数字业务平台。我们让创作者、教练、教育者和企业能够将他们的受众聚集在一起，进行互动讨论、直播、活动、聊天、课程和支付——所有功能都在一个地方，全部以他们自己的品牌呈现。
我们自豪地是一家拥有约 270 名（仍在增长）员工的完全远程公司，来自全球 30 多个国家。我们寻找世界各地的优秀人才，让他们发挥出人生中最好的工作，并在他们自己的生活中产生深远的影响。我们不追踪工作时长，但对高标准的要求非常严格。我们跨时区协作，高度异步化，并且喜欢大量记录文档。
每年两次，我们会将整个公司带到世界各地美丽的地点进行团队建设活动。迄今为止，我们已在土耳其、葡萄牙、墨西哥、泰国、哥伦比亚、意大利、爱尔兰等地举办过团队建设活动，未来还会有更多！
了解更多关于在 Circle 工作的信息，请查看我们的职业页面 https://careers.circle.so/。
职位描述
你将负责 Circle 最重要的产品领域之一的设计工作。这意味着你定义问题、塑造方向并交付体验——而不是等待需求文档。具体领域将根据你的优势和公司优先级来确定。
你将向产品设计团队汇报，并作为你所负责产品领域的最资深设计人员，直接与产品经理、工程师和设计领导合作。你还将与其他产品线的负责人协作。随着团队的成长，你将被期望提升周围设计师的标准。
AI 不是这份职位描述中的一个部分——而是我们工作的核心。Circle 的设计团队每天使用 AI 工具：探索产品方向，使用代码生成工具进行原型设计，比传统流程更快地测试想法。我们寻找已经这样工作的人，并希望进一步推动这一方向。
你将负责的工作
- 全程负责一个产品领域：识别机会、明确问题、设定设计方向并交付——作为与产品和工程团队平级的同事，而非下游执行者
- 设计复杂的多步骤产品流程，满足多种用户类型的需求——平衡创作者需求与会员体验，并让复杂的行为显得简单
- 快速原型设计和测试——使用 AI 辅助工具和代码生成工具
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ABOUT US
Circle is building the world’s leading AI-powered, all-in-one platform for digital businesses. We 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.
We’re proud to be a fully remote company of around 270 (and growing!) team members from 30+ countries around the world. We seek exceptional individuals around the world, set them up to do the best work of their lives, and in turn, create a meaningful impact in their own lives. We don't track hours, but we do manage for high expectations very closely. We collaborate across time zones, are highly async, and like to document a lot.
Twice a year, we bring the whole company together in beautiful places around the world for our company offsites. So far, we’ve hosted offsites in Turkey, Portugal, Mexico, Thailand, Colombia, Italy, Ireland, and more, with still more to come!
Check out our Careers https://careers.circle.so/ page for more about working at Circle.
ABOUT THE ROLE
You’ll own design for one of Circle’s most important product areas. That means you define the problem, shape the direction, and ship the experience—not wait for a brief. The specific area will be determined based on your strengths and company priorities.
You’ll report into the product design organization and work as the most senior design IC on your product area, partnering directly with product managers, engineers, and design leadership. You’ll also work alongside other Leads across Circle’s product surface. As the team grows, you’ll be expected to raise the bar for the designers around you.
AI is not a section on this job description—it’s how we work. Circle’s design team builds with AI tools daily: exploring product directions, prototyping with code-generation tools, stress-testing ideas faster than traditional workflows allow. We’re looking for someone who already works this way and wants to push it further.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING
- Own a product area end-to-end: identify opportunities, frame the problem, set design direction, and ship—operating as a peer to Product and Engineering, not a downstream executor
- Design complex, multi-step product flows that serve multiple user types—balancing creator needs against member experience, and making sophisticated behavior feel simple
- Prototype and test at speed—using AI-assisted tools, code-generation workflows, and whatever gets you to a testable concept fastest
- Influence product strategy beyond your own surface: contribute to roadmap conversations, flag opportunities other teams miss, and connect dots across the product
- Drive the craft standard on your area—interaction design, visual quality, and the small details that separate polished product from “good enough”
- Collaborate closely with engineers and design engineers to turn concepts into working, shippable experiences—not hand off specs and hope
- Raise the bar for the broader design team through feedback, shared frameworks, and the quality of your own output
WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL
- Strong alignment with our values, find our values on our career page https://circle.so/careers if you haven’t read up on them yet
- You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 https://magoosh.com/english-speaking/english-proficiency-levels-a-guide-to-determining-your-level/ / ILR Level 5 https://www.govtilr.org/.
- 5–7+ years of product design experience. Your portfolio should show systems-level thinking: shipped 0→1 work, complex multi-user flows, and evidence that you shaped the product direction—not just the interface
- Experience operating as the most senior designer on a product area—setting direction, making tradeoffs, and owning outcomes without constant guidance
- Strong prototyping skills—you build clickable, realistic prototypes yourself. Bonus if you’re already using AI-assisted prototyping tools like Cursor, Claude Code, v0, or Lovable
- Proficiency in Figma for high-fidelity design and collaboration
- Exceptional written and verbal communication—able to clearly explain complex ideas, influence decisions, and align teams asynchronously. You write well because that’s how decisions get made in a distributed team
- Comfortable designing in ambiguity and building conviction through iteration, not waiting for perfect requirements
- An active, evolving AI workflow—you already use AI tools in your design process and can speak concretely about how. This isn’t a checkbox; it’s a real part of how we evaluate fit
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
We are hiring at a Lead level for this role; however, we may consider offering this position at the Senior level depending on a candidate’s experience level alignment with the role. In either case, the offer would fall within the published compensation range.
Circle offers U.S.-benchmarked compensation globally, equity in the company with ongoing refresh grants, and 35 days of paid time off each year.
We’re a remote-only team that comes together twice a year for company retreats in incredible destinations around the world. Alongside incredible flexibility and autonomy, we offer a benefits package that supports health, wellbeing, and professional growth. Learn more in our Candidate Hub. https://circleco.notion.site/circle-candidate-hub
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