Lead Product Designer, Marketplace

Circle is building an AI-powered all-in-one platform for digital businesses, helping creators, coaches, educators, and businesses connect with their audiences. The Lead Product Designer will own the Discover marketplace experience end-to-end, setting design direction and shipping AI-driven discovery, curation, and trust experiences. The role also involves prototyping rapidly, collaborating with engineers, serving both sides of the marketplace, and mentoring designers.

Responsibilities:

• Own Discover's design end-to-end. Identify opportunities, frame problems, set design direction, and ship. You connect dots across the platform — understanding how a community business compound product feeds into what Discover surfaces — and you make that systems understanding visible in every design decision
• Design AI-driven discovery experiences. The new world UX is conversational and relational. You'll design the interfaces, curation experiences, and trust signals that make AI-driven discovery feel effortless — building the relationship between the platform, creators, and members in ways that feel human, not algorithmic
• Serve both sides of the market. You understand what makes a marketplace work at a systems level — how creator visibility gets earned, how consumer confidence gets built, how one broken experience erodes trust on both sides. That understanding drives your design decisions, not just your surface-level execution
• Prototype at speed. You use AI-assisted tools — Cursor, Claude Code, v0, Lovable — because you've already figured out it's how ideas get stress-tested fast. You stay in the problem through to launch, working closely with engineers to close the gap between concept and shipped experience
• Mentor and elevate. You raise the craft standard on Discover through the quality of your own work and how you develop designers alongside you

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