Lead Product Designer

Circle is a financial technology company at the epicenter of the emerging internet of money, where value can finally travel like other digital data - globally, nearly instantly and less expensively than legacy settlement systems. This ground-breaking new internet layer opens up previously unimaginable possibilities for payments, commerce and markets that can help raise global economic prosperity and enhance inclusion. Our infrastructure - including USDC, a blockchain-based dollar - helps businesses, institutions and developers harness these breakthroughs and capitalize on this major turning point in the evolution of money and technology.
What you'll be part of:
Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we're expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values : High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence. We have built a flexible and diverse work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.
What you'll be responsible for:
Circle is looking for a Lead Product Designer to drive design outcomes that meet our customer needs, offering them new ways to interact and engage with currency, treasury, and payments solutions. You'll own the end-to-end design for your product space, partnering with Product Management, Engineering, and our customers to craft solutions that will be used by thousands of businesses to impact millions of end-users around the world.
What you'll work on:

• Driving an understanding of our customers and their needs in the rapidly changing crypto and blockchain problem space
• Identifying and prioritizing customer needs with your product and engineering partners
• Collaborating across many teams at Circle to drive early alignment around problem spaces and their possible solutions
• Leveraging quantitative and qualitative data to inform both yours and stakeholders' decision making
• Contributing to a growing design team, helping install best practices and processes as we scale

What you'll bring to Circle:

• Lead Product Designer
  
  • Experience in solving service design challenges and/or complex task-based workflows
  • Ability to "connect-the-dots" through the work being done in other product areas to solve synonymous problems
  • History of contributing to a strong design culture, placing the customer at the center of your work, and contributing to the elevation of others' work
  • More than 7 years of UX or product design experience, having owned the end-to-end design execution and evolution of several products and/or product features
• Principal Product Designer
  All the requirements of a Lead Product Designer and:
  • Experience shaping and defining design and research processes and activities
  • Design mentorship and guidance for fellow designers and product management peers
  • Passion for aligning key stakeholders to your design vision
  • More than 12 years of UX or product design experience, driving direct and repeated business impact through your work, and a series of positive customer experiences

Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core. We consider a wide variety of elements when crafting our compensation ranges and total compensation packages.
Starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs. Please note that compensation ranges may differ for candidates in other locations.
Base Pay Range: $157,500 - $210,000
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Circle. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Additionally, Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.
Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to [email protected] for support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs.
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