About the RoleLead Product Designers at CircleCI turn business context into design strategy that engineers and product managers can rally around, and strategy into products that help thousands of developers deliver better software, faster.
They'll be building deep expertise in the developer tooling field while balancing shifting priorities in a highly technical domain. They'll be hands-on in shipping the highest impact solutions for hard, real-world problems while coaching designers on maintaining a high bar for craft without slowing delivery.
*This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, requiring 2 days per week in officeWhat You'll Do:- Driving measurable business impact through large, wide-ranging projects.
- Leading user journey mapping across complex product experiences.
- Leading competitive analysis and synthesizing insights to inform product direction.
- Shipping small, quick experiments with engineers to validate ideas and drive business outcomes.
- Reviewing team designs and setting quality standards before designs are delivered.
What You'll Bring:- 8+ years of product design experience, with at least 5 years designing B2B SaaS products.
- Shipped work in developer tools, DevOps, infrastructure, or another product used primarily by software engineers.
- Hands-on experience with, and strong working knowledge of, AI code-generation tooling, with an understanding of the technical complexity and tradeoffs of proposed solutions.
- Track record of partnering with engineering and product leaders on roadmap and scope for a product with live production users.
- A portfolio showing sophisticated, creative UX solutions to complex technical problems and a proven grasp of information architecture.
Bonus Skills (Nice to Have)- Experience designing for developer tools, or for a similarly complex technical space (e.g., infrastructure, security, data, or observability).
- Hands-on use of a CI/CD platform (such as CircleCI, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins) as a user or admin.
- Experience designing AI-assisted or automation features for developer workflows.
United States Base Pay Range
$147,500-$183,500 USD
