Lead Product Designer
Lead Product Designer
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Job Description
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 youll be part of:
Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization were expanding into some of the worlds 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 Youll Be Responsible For
As Lead Product Designer on Circles Wallets team youll help shape the gateway to Web3 by crafting seamless secure and intuitive experiences for storing sending and managing digital assets. The teams mission is to make wallets trusted and delightful whether used by developers businesses or institutions. Youll own the end-to-end design strategy across both consumer and developer-facing touchpoints translating complex crypto interactions from key management and custody models to on/off-ramps and signing flows into usable elegant solutions.
Youll be joining a fast-moving globally distributed team with a strong presence in Taiwan. Success in this role hinges not just on design excellence and domain fluency but also on clear asynchronous communication and the ability to synthesize technical complexity for cross-functional teams. Youll partner closely with product engineering and protocol teams to drive clarity consistency and innovation across every wallet interaction.
What Youll Work On
Define and drive the design vision for Circles wallet products across mobile web and embedded APIs/SDKs.
Lead user experience design around crypto-centric flows: private key abstraction address formats signing gas fees and chain compatibility.
Build interfaces that promote clarity and trust in high-stakes environments security prompts recovery flows biometrics and secure enclaves.
Collaborate with product managers and engineers to align technical feasibility with intuitive UX.
Maintain and extend our product design system for crypto-specific use cases and components.
Conduct user research and usability testing especially with crypto-native and crypto-curious audiences.
Mentor more junior designers on the team and scale product design practices within a fast-paced startup culture.
Serve as a voice of design within the broader organization advocating for user needs and responsible Web3 innovation.
What Youll Bring to Circle
Core Requirements:
7 years of experience in product design with 2 years in crypto blockchain fintech or related industries.
Experience designing complex user experiences ideally involving wallets financial products developer tools or security-related applications.
Deep knowledge of crypto design principles including non-custodial vs. custodial wallets transaction signing seed phrase management and L2 ecosystems.
Strong interaction and visual design skills with a portfolio that reflects thoughtful problem-solving in ambiguous or emerging technology spaces.
Proficiency in Figma and other modern design and prototyping tools.
A proactive communication style youre comfortable navigating async collaboration and working with distributed teams across languages and timezones.
Experience leading design initiatives end-to-end from early discovery to implementation and launch.
Preferred Requirements:
Mandarin/English or bilingual proficiency is a plus.
Hands-on experience with blockchain APIs smart contract UX or wallet SDKs.
Familiarity with emerging wallet UX patterns (e.g. passkeys MPC account abstraction).
Experience using generative AI tools (e.g. Midjourney Firefly DALLE) to enhance design output or ideation.
Comfort presenting to executive stakeholders and participating in cross-functional roadmap discussions.
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.
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 tofor support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs.
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Employment Type
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