Lead Product Designer, Marketplace

Role 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 — and you'll bring the craft, the systems thinking, and the bottom-up ideas that make that vision real. What you'll be doing 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. You give real feedback and set a high bar. Qualifications Strong alignment with our values. You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5. Marketplace or two-sided platform experience — you\'ve designed for both sides of a market. 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 evidence you drove 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 — you build realistic prototypes yourself using tools like Cursor, Claude Code, v0, or Lovable. Proficiency in Figma for high-fidelity design and cross-functional collaboration. Proactive communication — you share thinking, surface decisions early, and keep your team informed. Comfort designing in ambiguity — Discover is still taking shape; you iterate to build conviction. #J-18808-Ljbffr