• Help teams make better product decisions • Bring structure to complex product problems • Turn insights and data into clear, intuitive user experiences • Design intuitive, high-quality interfaces and flows for large-scale consumer products • Collaborate closely with executives and product leaders to translate strategy into user experiences • Use product metrics, UX research, and analytics to guide design improvements • Ensure consistency across products using scalable, tokenized design systems • Conduct and guide user research: interviews usability tests surveys A/B tests • Provide clear documentation, design assets, and specifications to ensure accurate implementation • Support and develop other designers on the team, sharing best practices and raising the overall quality bar • Measure impact, gather feedback, and refine experiences to improve usability and engagement.

It's a new day with a new opportunity at 8am! About the role: As a Product Designer on the Growth team at 8am, you will help shape how new and existing customers discover value, adopt core capabilities, and expand their use of our platform. This role focuses on designing experiences that directly support customer acquisition, onboarding, engagement, retention, and revenue growth within a complex B2B fintech product. You will take ownership of growth-focused initiatives such as first-time use, onboarding flows, feature discovery, in-product education, and upsell experiences. Working in close partnership with Product Managers, Engineers, and a Senior Product Designer, you will help translate growth strategy into thoughtful, user-centered solutions that balance business impact with clarity and usability. This role is well suited for a designer who is comfortable operating in ambiguity, enjoys connecting user needs to business outcomes, and has experience designing for growth within complex, professional products. About us: At 8am, our vision is to power a world where professionals thrive. We start every day on a mission to empower professionals with the most trusted, innovative technology to deliver world-class outcomes for their clients and exceptional financial results for their business. They count on our purpose-built solutions to simplify operations, ensure compliance, and fuel profitable growth, so they can focus on their clients and do more of the work that matters. Founded in 2005, 8am™ (formerly AffiniPay) is the professional business platform built to help legal, accounting, and other client-focused professionals run stronger, more profitable businesses. Today, more than 250,000 professionals across the U.S. trust 8am to help them work smarter, serve clients better, and unlock their full potential. We have been recognized as one of Inc 5000’s fastest growing companies in the U.S. for 13 years in a row, and as a result, our teams continue to grow as well! What you'll do: Design for Growth and Customer Outcomes Design and iterate on experiences that support acquisition, activation, onboarding, engagement, retention, and expansion. Own growth-related problem spaces such as first-time user experiences, feature discovery, in-product education, training modules, and upsell flows. Translate growth hypotheses and product strategy into user-centered solutions that are measurable and impactful. Partner with Product and Growth stakeholders to define success metrics and evaluate the effectiveness of shipped work. Partner Deeply with Product and Engineering Work closely with Product Managers to frame problems, explore solutions, and align design decisions with growth and business goals. Collaborate with Engineers throughout the design and development process, providing clear intent, flows, and interaction details to support high-quality implementation. Partner with a Senior Product Designer to align on approach, receive feedback, and elevate craft while maintaining ownership of your work. Contribute meaningfully to cross-functional discussions, tradeoffs, and prioritization. Understand and Advocate for Professional Users Develop a strong understanding of professional users, their motivations, and their workflows within a B2B or B2B2C context. Use research inputs, customer feedback, and product data to inform design decisions. Design experiences that are intuitive, trustworthy, and respectful of users’ time in high-stakes, workflow-driven environments. Execute with Quality and Ownership Produce high-quality design deliverables across the lifecycle, including user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI. Take ownership of your problem areas, proactively identifying opportunities to improve user experience and growth outcomes. Communicate design rationale and tradeoffs clearly to cross-functional partners. Preferred Qualifications: About you: 4–7 years of product design experience, with a strong portfolio demonstrating product thinking, ownership, and measurable impact. Experience designing for B2B or B2B2C products, ideally within SaaS, fintech, or other complex platforms. Demonstrated experience designing for growth strategies such as onboarding, activation, retention, expansion, or monetization. Comfort working in ambiguous problem spaces and iterating based on feedback, data, and constraints. Strong interaction and visual design skills, with attention to usability and clarity. High proficiency in Figma. Clear and effective communicator who collaborates well with Product Managers and Engineers. A proactive, ownership-oriented mindset with a desire to learn and impro Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, enhance decision-making, or drive innovation. Additional Information The annual salary range for this position is $120,000 to $140,000. The salary range for performing this role outside of the US / Austin / California may differ.  8am is committed to offering competitive, fair and commensurate compensation and has provided an estimated pay range for this role. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and education. Why 8am: At 8am, our culture is shaped by the people who bring it to life every day. Together, we build a company rooted in continuous learning, genuine community, holistic wellness, and meaningful engagement—values that empower us as individuals and unite us as a team. Our culture is grounded in our core values: Work Smart, Win Fast ; Outshine Ordinary , and We Find a Way . These values drive how we serve our customers and work with each other in a collaborative, inspiring, and empowering environment, every day. Here’s how we support our 8Team: Health Insurance Coverage: We offer our 8Team a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit your needs, including a 100% company-paid HDHP plan for employees. Financial perks: We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package including annual bonuses, equity options and 401(k) or RRSP if in Canada, with a company match for all team members. Time for what matters: Flexible Time Off, paid holidays, and a parental leave program for our new parents. Wellness: Wellness stipends, mental health support, and one-on-one nutrition coaching. Learning and Development: Continuous learning through 8am.edu, leadership programs, professional development funds, and individually focused talent development. Giving back to the communities around us: Participate in our charitable matching gift program, paid time off for volunteer service, and company-sponsored volunteer events (both local and virtually). Engagement: Virtual and in-person team-building events, quarterly award recognition through our Rise & Shine Award of Excellence Program, and our peer-to-peer appreciation platform. At 8am, we don’t just offer benefits - we create an environment where people can thrive, grow, and make a real impact every day. Diversity, equity & inclusion at 8am: At 8am, we recognize that innovation occurs with a strong team of people who are diverse in background, personality, talent and ideas. Experience comes in many forms and ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we continue to learn from each other is an integral part of our culture. We are committed to creating a welcoming and transparent environment for all that embraces those differences through education, equal access to opportunities and information, inclusionary programs, and community outreach. Security advisory: Our hiring teams at 8am are dedicated to recruiting top talent that share our passion for serving the professional services industry through innovative financial technology.  As such, our Talent Acquisition Team only follows legitimate hiring practices.  We will always communicate with our candidates using emails with the 8am domain and will never ask for sensitive/personal data during the application process.  All interviews take place over phone call, Zoom/Google Meet or in person.  All offers are communicated verbally by our Talent Acquisition Specialists with a written offer letter as a follow up.

About Us Circle is building the world’s leading all-in-one platform for online communities. We 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. We’re proud to be a fully remote company of around 200 (and growing!) team members from 30+ countries around the world. We seek exceptional individuals around the world, set them up to do the best work of their lives, and in turn, create a meaningful impact in their own lives. We don't track hours, but we do manage for high expectations very closely. We collaborate across time zones, are highly async, and like to document a lot. Twice a year, we bring the whole company together in beautiful places around the world for our company offsites. So far, we’ve hosted offsites in Turkey, Portugal, Mexico, Thailand, Colombia, Italy, Ireland, and more, with still more to come! Check out our Careers page for more about working at Circle. About the role We're looking for a Lead Product Designer for Applied AI at Circle. You'll design AI-native experiences—agents that act on behalf of community managers, workflows that reduce manual work, and a copilot that helps creators run their communities more effectively. You'll work with our Applied AI engineering team to turn AI capabilities into real workflows and product experiences for our customers. You'll own the design direction for Applied AI surfaces across Circle. These aren't typical product design challenges. You'll make AI behavior legible, build trust in non-deterministic systems, and give users meaningful control without overwhelming them. You'll shape how creators and AI collaborate inside Circle. You'll be joining a design team where context is shared openly, ownership is real, and talented people are trusted to do their best work. What you’ll be doing Own the design strategy for Applied AI surfaces, from discovery through shipped experiences Provide thought leadership for Applied AI at Circle: stay on top of AI and UX trends and drive our direction in this area Operate with high autonomy: you identify opportunities, frame the problem, and drive from 0→1 with minimal guidance Act as a peer to Product and Engineering on product decisions, not just a downstream executor Design end-to-end AI experiences—from initial concept to launch—including agents, workflows, and copilot features Define patterns for AI-assisted and AI-automated actions: triggering, monitoring, correcting, and building user trust Tackle novel UX problems around transparency, control, and error handling for unpredictable systems Prototype and test AI-powered flows and interactions quickly with users Collaborate closely with engineers and design engineers using Cursor and Claude Code to turn your concepts into working experiences Work embedded with engineering and ML teams, iterating as capabilities evolve What you’ll need to be successful Strong alignment with our values, find our values on our career page if you haven’t read up on them yet. You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5. 6+ years of product design experience with a strong portfolio demonstrating UX and visual craft You already use AI deeply in your design work today—you can explain concretely how AI is integrated into your workflows (research, exploration, prototyping, content, visuals) Hands-on experience with AI-assisted prototyping tools (e.g., v0, Lovable, Cursor + Claude Code) Experience designing AI-powered tools, conversational interfaces, automation systems, or similarly complex products Strong prototyping skills—you build clickable, realistic prototypes yourself, not just static screens Proficiency in Figma for high-fidelity design and collaboration Exceptional written and verbal communication skills—able to clearly explain complex ideas, influence decisions, and align teams asynchronously Comfortable designing in ambiguity and solving problems without existing patterns Attention to detail that results in polished, shippable work $140,000 - $170,000 USD per year We are hiring at a Lead level for this role; however, we may consider offering this position at the Senior level depending on a candidate’s experience level alignment with the role. In either case, the offer would fall within the published compensation range. The fun stuff Fully remote: work from anywhere in the world! Autonomy and trust to do your job: we care about outcomes over everything else. Paid time away: all employees are given 35 days of PTO annually. We also offer a paid sabbatical after 5 years. Generous U.S. benchmarked compensation and startup equity no matter where you are in the world.* Awesome medical coverage with 100% coverage for you and your family, or medical reimbursement options where applicable!* Parental leave for parents expanding their family, or just starting one. Home office stipend to help you get up and running. Learning & development stipend to help you level up your professional skills. Annual bonus potential for roles that don't already receive variable income or commission. Company retreats: Twice a year, the Circle team gets together for a fully paid company retreat in incredible places around the world! We’ve had past retreats in Colombia, Portugal, and Mexico, with more planned on the horizon. Check out our Careers page for more. * Your role, location and unique circumstance may affect this. Candidate Safety & Interview Process Notice At Circle, the safety and trust of our candidates is extremely important to us. Unfortunately, recruiting fraud is increasingly common in the job market, and bad actors sometimes impersonate companies or employees. To help protect you, here’s what you can expect from our hiring process: How Our Process Works All applications are submitted through our official applicant tracking system (Greenhouse). If selected to move forward, you may be invited to record a short introductory video, or directly into a live interview. All live interviews are conducted face-to-face over video (Zoom or Google Meet) with a member of the Circle team. We do not conduct text-only interviews. We do not conduct interviews via chat apps or messaging platforms. We do not use AI bots to interview candidates. Official Communication Channels All official communication from Circle will come from no-reply@circle.co, or an email address ending in @circle.co or @circle.so. We will never contact you from unofficial domains (such as “.team”, “.careers”, or similar variations). We will never request sensitive personal information early in the process, or ask for payment of any kind. If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Circle, please do not respond. We appreciate your vigilance, and look forward to connecting with you through our official channels. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion As a fully-remote international company, diversity is baked into our DNA. Here’s how our CEO, Sid Yadav, frames our hiring mission: “let’s find talent in underserved and under-represented corners of the world, set them up to do the best work of their lives, and in turn, change their life.” To achieve this hiring mission, we offer competitive U.S. benchmarked compensation no matter where someone’s located in the world, and we proactively seek candidates who expand representation of backgrounds, cultures and lived experiences in our teams. Equal Employment Opportunity Circle is an equal opportunity employer and as such, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. If you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs. How We Use Candidate Data At Circle, we are committed to protecting your personal information. As a job applicant, the personal data you provide to us is collected and processed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) . This notice outlines the types of personal information we collect, the purpose for collecting it, and your rights. Information We Collect: We collect the following categories of personal information from job applicants: Contact information (such as name, email address, phone number) Employment history and qualifications To assess your qualifications and suitability for the position To communicate with you during the recruitment process To comply with legal and regulatory obligations Your Rights Under GDPR and CCPA: You have the following rights regarding your personal information: The right to request access to the personal information we hold about you. The right to request the deletion of your personal information, subject to certain legal exceptions. The right to opt out of the sale of your personal information (Note: We do not sell personal information). For more information about how we handle your personal data or to exercise your rights, please refer to our full Privacy Policy. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this privacy notice.

About Us Circle is building the world’s leading all-in-one platform for online communities. We 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. We’re proud to be a fully remote company of around 200 (and growing!) team members from 30+ countries around the world. We seek exceptional individuals around the world, set them up to do the best work of their lives, and in turn, create a meaningful impact in their own lives. We don't track hours, but we do manage for high expectations very closely. We collaborate across time zones, are highly async, and like to document a lot. Twice a year, we bring the whole company together in beautiful places around the world for our company offsites. So far, we’ve hosted offsites in Turkey, Portugal, Mexico, Thailand, Colombia, Italy, Ireland, and more, with still more to come! Check out our Careers page for more about working at Circle. About the role We're looking for a Lead Product Designer for Growth at Circle. You'll work across growth surfaces: activation, conversion, monetization, and product-led growth loops. Your work will directly impact conversion, activation, and revenue. You'll own the experiences that help creators succeed on Circle—from sign-up and onboarding to billing and beyond. You'll move fast, design with care, and turn funnel data into high-impact decisions. You'll partner closely with Growth, Product, and Engineering to drive business outcomes through product. You'll be joining a design team where context is shared openly, ownership is real, and talented people are trusted to do their best work. What you’ll be doing Own the design strategy for growth across key surfaces (sign-up, onboarding, activation, upgrade paths, revenue flows) Design end-to-end flows for sign-up, onboarding, and activation—optimizing for both conversion and long-term engagement Own the billing and checkout experience: subscriptions, payments, upgrades, failed payments, and single-page checkout Translate data, experimentation results, and research into clear product and design decisions Frame and prioritize growth hypotheses with your PM/Growth partners and lead the design of experiments Lead A/B testing efforts—from hypothesis and design to interpreting results Monitor funnels, identify drop-off points, and ship targeted design interventions Provide strong upward communication to design and product leadership: clear narratives, trade-offs, and recommendations Partner closely with engineers, balancing speed with design quality Operate with high autonomy and act as a design leader for the growth area Spot opportunities proactively—you take initiative, not just briefs What you’ll need to be successful Strong alignment with our values, find our values on our career page if you haven’t read up on them yet. You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5. 6+ years of product design experience with a portfolio demonstrating strong UX and UI execution Experience designing in growth teams: onboarding, activation, lifecycle, pricing/packaging, or monetization flows Experience working with experimentation frameworks (A/B tests, multivariate, etc.) and using data to inform design Proven success designing for conversion, activation, or retention Data literacy—comfortable interpreting funnel performance and experiment results You actively use AI tools to accelerate your design workflow (e.g., research synthesis, UX writing, exploring variants, quick mocks) Experience with AI-assisted tools (e.g., v0, Cursor + Claude Code) when they help you move faster Proficiency in Figma for high-fidelity design and collaborative work Exceptional written and verbal communication skills—able to distill insights, explain decisions clearly, and collaborate effectively across teams Familiarity with payment and checkout UX patterns, including trust signals and friction points $140,000 - $170,000 USD per year We are hiring at a Lead level for this role; however, we may consider offering this position at the Senior level depending on a candidate’s experience level alignment with the role. In either case, the offer would fall within the published compensation range. The fun stuff Fully remote: work from anywhere in the world! Autonomy and trust to do your job: we care about outcomes over everything else. Paid time away: all employees are given 35 days of PTO annually. We also offer a paid sabbatical after 5 years. Generous U.S. benchmarked compensation and startup equity no matter where you are in the world.* Awesome medical coverage with 100% coverage for you and your family, or medical reimbursement options where applicable!* Parental leave for parents expanding their family, or just starting one. Home office stipend to help you get up and running. Learning & development stipend to help you level up your professional skills. Annual bonus potential for roles that don't already receive variable income or commission. Company retreats: Twice a year, the Circle team gets together for a fully paid company retreat in incredible places around the world! We’ve had past retreats in Colombia, Portugal, and Mexico, with more planned on the horizon. Check out our Careers page for more. * Your role, location and unique circumstance may affect this. Candidate Safety & Interview Process Notice At Circle, the safety and trust of our candidates is extremely important to us. Unfortunately, recruiting fraud is increasingly common in the job market, and bad actors sometimes impersonate companies or employees. To help protect you, here’s what you can expect from our hiring process: How Our Process Works All applications are submitted through our official applicant tracking system (Greenhouse). If selected to move forward, you may be invited to record a short introductory video, or directly into a live interview. All live interviews are conducted face-to-face over video (Zoom or Google Meet) with a member of the Circle team. We do not conduct text-only interviews. We do not conduct interviews via chat apps or messaging platforms. We do not use AI bots to interview candidates. Official Communication Channels All official communication from Circle will come from no-reply@circle.co, or an email address ending in @circle.co or @circle.so. We will never contact you from unofficial domains (such as “.team”, “.careers”, or similar variations). We will never request sensitive personal information early in the process, or ask for payment of any kind. If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Circle, please do not respond. We appreciate your vigilance, and look forward to connecting with you through our official channels. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion As a fully-remote international company, diversity is baked into our DNA. Here’s how our CEO, Sid Yadav, frames our hiring mission: “let’s find talent in underserved and under-represented corners of the world, set them up to do the best work of their lives, and in turn, change their life.” To achieve this hiring mission, we offer competitive U.S. benchmarked compensation no matter where someone’s located in the world, and we proactively seek candidates who expand representation of backgrounds, cultures and lived experiences in our teams. Equal Employment Opportunity Circle is an equal opportunity employer and as such, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. If you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs. How We Use Candidate Data At Circle, we are committed to protecting your personal information. As a job applicant, the personal data you provide to us is collected and processed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) . This notice outlines the types of personal information we collect, the purpose for collecting it, and your rights. Information We Collect: We collect the following categories of personal information from job applicants: Contact information (such as name, email address, phone number) Employment history and qualifications To assess your qualifications and suitability for the position To communicate with you during the recruitment process To comply with legal and regulatory obligations Your Rights Under GDPR and CCPA: You have the following rights regarding your personal information: The right to request access to the personal information we hold about you. The right to request the deletion of your personal information, subject to certain legal exceptions. The right to opt out of the sale of your personal information (Note: We do not sell personal information). For more information about how we handle your personal data or to exercise your rights, please refer to our full Privacy Policy. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this privacy notice.