Lead Product Designer, Marketplace

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.