Lead Product Designer, Marketplace

Circle is building an all-in-one platform for online communities, and they are seeking a Lead Product Designer for their Discover feature. The role involves owning the design process end-to-end, focusing on AI-driven discovery experiences, and serving both creators and consumers in a marketplace environment.

Responsibilities:

• Own Discover's design end-to-end. Identify opportunities, frame problems, set design direction, and ship
• Design AI-driven discovery experiences. The new world UX is conversational and relational
• Serve both sides of the market
• Prototype at speed
• Mentor and elevate

Requirements:

• Strong alignment with our values, find our values on our career page if you haven't read up on them yet
• You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5
• Marketplace or two-sided platform experience — this is a hard requirement. You've designed for both sides of a market. You know what breaks trust and what builds it. Your portfolio shows you shaped outcomes, not just interfaces
• 5+ years of product design experience, including shipped 0→1 work, complex multi-user flows, and clear evidence that you drove product direction — not just executed it
• 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. You build realistic prototypes yourself using tools like Cursor, Claude Code, v0, or Lovable. This is how you think, not just how you produce. You can speak concretely about your process
• Proficiency in Figma for high-fidelity design and cross-functional collaboration
• Proactive communication. You share your thinking before you're asked, surface decisions early, give real opinions, and keep your team informed without being prompted. At Circle, communication is how trust gets built and work gets shipped
• Comfort designing in ambiguity. Discover is still taking shape. You build conviction through iteration, not by waiting for perfect requirements