About Circle
- Circle is building the world’s leading AI-powered, all-in-one platform for digital businesses.
- They make it possible for creators, coaches, educators, and businesses to bring together their audience with engaging discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments — all in one place, all under their own brand.
- The company is fully remote with around 270 (and growing!) team members from 30+ countries.
- They do not track hours, but manage for high expectations closely.
- The team collaborates across time zones, is highly async, and documents extensively.
- Twice a year, the company holds offsites in locations such as Turkey, Portugal, Mexico, Thailand, Colombia, Italy, and Ireland.
About the Role
- Discover is a two-sided marketplace spanning communities, courses, events, and more.
- 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.
- You'll join a design team where context is shared openly, ownership is real, and talented people are trusted to do their best work.
- This role is for designers with deep experience in consumer marketplace products — owning discovery, ranking, and engagement at scale.
- The challenge involves serving two audiences with opposing needs: creators who need visibility, trust signals, and growth; and consumers who need signal through noise, confidence to commit, and experiences that deliver on their promise.
- AI is the core interaction model — not a filter or a recommendation widget, but the primary way Discover understands intent and surfaces what's worth someone's time.
What You'll Be Doing
- Own Discover's design end-to-end: identify opportunities, frame problems, set design direction, and ship.
- Connect dots across the platform, understanding how a community business compound product feeds into what Discover surfaces.
- Design AI-driven discovery experiences, including interfaces, curation experiences, and trust signals that make AI-driven discovery feel effortless.
- Serve both sides of the market by understanding how creator visibility is earned and how consumer confidence is built at a systems level.
- Prototype at speed using AI-assisted tools like Cursor, Claude Code, v0, and Lovable.
- Stay in the problem through to launch, working closely with engineers to close the gap between concept and shipped experience.
- Mentor and elevate the craft standard on Discover through personal work and by developing other designers.
What You'll Bring
Strong alignment with company values.
Proficiency in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5.
Marketplace or two-sided platform experience (hard requirement), specifically designing for both sides of a market and shaping outcomes.
5+ years of product design experience, including shipped 0→1 work, complex multi-user flows, and evidence of driving 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 using tools like Cursor, Claude Code, v0, or Lovable.
Proficiency in Figma for high-fidelity design and cross-functional collaboration.
Proactive communication, sharing thinking early and keeping the team informed.
Comfort designing in ambiguity and building conviction through iteration.
Compensation & Benefits
- Hiring is at a Lead level, but may be considered at a Senior level depending on experience.
- Circle offers U.S.-benchmarked compensation globally.
- Equity in the company with ongoing refresh grants.
- 35 days of paid time off each year.
- Remote-only team with twice-yearly company retreats.
- Benefits package that supports health, wellbeing, and professional growth.