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 work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.We’re looking for a Lead Product Designer to join the Arc pillar. This role focuses on shaping how developers and businesses interact with blockchain-native products and primitives — including networks, transactions, permissions, and programmable value. Rather than designing isolated features, you’ll work across products and teams to define experiences that make blockchain infrastructure usable, reliable, and economically meaningful.We’re looking for a designer who understands blockchains as more than technology as systems that shape incentives, ownership, and value flow. You should be comfortable reasoning about how design choices influence trust, behavior, and participation in crypto ecosystems, while still holding a high bar for craft and usability.What you’ll work onBlockchain-native experiences: Design workflows and interfaces that expose the power of blockchains — such as transactions, permissions, programmability, and settlement — in ways that feel understandable and intentional.Economic clarity: Help users reason about value flow, costs, and tradeoffs (e.g. fees, execution, finality) without overwhelming them.Cross-team alignment: Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to define priorities and make tradeoffs across blockchain protocols, platform surfaces, and downstream products.Systems and patterns: Identify repeatable models and abstractions that can scale across blockchain use cases and products.Design leadership: Set direction for complex problem spaces, mentor other designers, and raise the bar for blockchain product design across the organization.What you’ll bring to CircleChain fluency: 7+ years of product design experience, with meaningful exposure to crypto, blockchain, or financial infrastructure products. You understand how blockchains work at a conceptual level and why they matter.Comfort with complexity: Strong ability to design across interconnected workflows that involve technical and economic tradeoffs.High craft bar: Excellent interaction and visual design skills, applied in service of clarity, trust, and correctness.Design leadership: Experience setting design direction, influencing cross-functional partners, and mentoring designers.Clear communication: Ability to explain complex ideas, articulate design decisions, and collaborate effectively in a distributed environment.Base Pay Range: $172,500 - $225,000Starting 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.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.Circle believes in a future where digital dollars work securely around the world to create a more prosperous global economy for everyone.To accomplish this, we created USDC, a digital currency backed by the US dollar and always redeemable 1:1. We work closely with regulators to ensure our digital dollar guides and surpasses the standards for stablecoins. By doing this, USDC has the potential to change how money moves around the world.Our values of Multistakeholder, Mindful, Driven by excellence, and High integrity drive us to succeed. Valuing our employees as stakeholders is about creating an environment where people can thrive and grow, be challenged and learn constantly – an environment that thrives on diversity by drawing competitive strength from within.Employees take pride in Circle’s culture and values. That’s why community members from around the world say we’re a top place to work.We are an equal opportunity employer.Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to accommodations@circle.com for support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs.