Join CircleCI as a Senior Product Designer to craft meaningful products that enhance developer productivity using AI.
Posted by employer 5 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 5 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
AI in the day-to-day
You're using AI daily to move faster, think bigger, and ship with more confidence.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Product Designer at CircleCI, the individual will focus on creating impactful products that enhance the developer experience. Key skills include proficiency in AI-assisted design tools, a strong grasp of visual design principles, and the ability to translate complex technical processes into user-friendly experiences. This position is ideal for seasoned designers with a background in SaaS and developer tools, who are eager to mentor others and contribute to a collaborative team environment. CircleCI's emphasis on innovation and user engagement highlights its commitment to improving software delivery.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 5 months ago — first seen on Joblaze May 27, 2026. Last confirmed on CircleCI's careers page November 6, 2026.
- Salary band is below the typical range for Design roles (median ~$171,200).
- Starts above 14% of 22 comparable senior design roles in United States that list AI/ML we track (median $178,000 across 18 companies). See AI/ML salary trends
- AI/ML appears in 17.7% of 181 comparable senior design roles in United States; UX appears in 1.1% of 181 comparable senior design roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Lead Product Designer role remote?
- It's hybrid — CircleCI expects some on-site time in San Francisco, CA.
- What's the salary range?
- CircleCI lists $147,500–$183,500 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Lead Product Designer role.
- Where is the role based?
- CircleCI is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, Lean UX, SaaS, UX.
- What seniority level is this role?
- CircleCI targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Lead Product Designer role at CircleCI.
From the original posting
About the Team
The Product Design team at CircleCI is responsible for taking the complexities of CI/CD into understandable, trustworthy, and efficient experiences for developers and platform teams that rely on CircleCI for their pipelines. Our job is to understand the developers’ and agentic workflows of configuring, troubleshooting and managing pipelines at scale. We influence the design and product decisions at CircleCI so we can support our customers striving to shorten the distance between idea and delivery.
About the Role
Lead 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 office
What 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.
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