Lead Product Designer

Role Overview

• Own and drive the product design vision for Cycloid, in alignment with product strategy and company goals.
• Design new product features end to end, from discovery and user flows to prototypes, high fidelity UI, and iterative improvements.
• Lead design decisions on complex, technical topics such as platform UX, permissions, workflows, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, frontend, backend, and DevOps teams to define requirements, challenge solutions, and validate designs.
• Ensure consistency, scalability, and quality across the product through design systems and shared patterns.
• Collaborate closely with another product designer in the team through regular feedback, design reviews, and day to day collaboration — making sure they are working toward your vision.
• Work closely with frontend engineers to translate designs into high quality Vue.js implementations, and when relevant, implement visual or interaction changes yourself.
• Provide a clear weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly retrospective and reporting to the Founder.

Requirements

• Proven experience in product design, including experience in a lead or senior ownership role > 10 years.
• Demonstrate capability to start from scratch a team and to scale it up to 5 designers, today, there is 1 designer in the team.
• Demonstrate capability to implement best practices.
• Strong track record of designing complex digital products, ideally developer tools, platforms, or technical SaaS.
• Excellent skills in interaction design, UX architecture, and visual and UI design.
• Solid understanding of frontend fundamentals such as HTML, CSS, and basic JavaScript, with the ability to read and reason about code.
• Experience working closely with engineering teams and influencing product decisions.
• Ability to clearly communicate design rationale, trade offs, and decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• KISS approach.
• Fluent in English.
• startup mindset.
• A ++ if you speaks French.
• A +++ if you understand our market: IDP, DevOps, Cloud, CMP, dev tools.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• JavaScript
• Vue.js

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• 100% remote work.
• High level of autonomy and ownership over product design.
• A passionate, friendly, and highly technical team.
• Real influence on the product direction of a growing platform.
• Support for professional growth and continuous learning.
• A strong commitment to sustainability and positive environmental impact.
• Home office setup budget up to €1200.
• Choose your own device policy.
• One company retreat per year somewhere in the EU.