Staff Product Designer - Remote

🌏 Located remotely (must live in UTC-5 to UTC+2 time zones to apply)

💸 Salary £110,000 per year + Equity + Performance Bonus

👋 Reporting to Pol Kuijken, Co-Founder and Principal Designer

👯 Working in the Product Design Team (currently a team of four)

Are you a Staff Product Designer (similar to Senior+, Lead, or even Principal roles in other companies) who loves building intuitive and user-centered mobile apps?

Would you like to join a fully remote, independent, and profitable company? If you’d like to work in a small, friendly, experienced team and tackle some interesting design challenges, we’d love to hear from you.

With one of our Co-founders being a Product Designer, design and user experience have been at the core of what we do since the start! If you love to dig deep into what makes users tick and turn this knowledge into simple and efficient products—we think you’ll be right at home here.

Want to know more?

We are fully remote

Our Co-founders are in different countries, and our team is spread across Europe, Brazil, and Canada. We don’t have a head office for you to visit, and we never will.

Flexible, asynchronous working

It gives us task flexibility and work-life balance. Minimal meetings allow you to focus on deep work and get things done.

Profitable. Indipendent. Long-Term Focus

We're a profitable company with a strong foundation. We operate independently, prioritizing long-term success and innovation.

Equity options for everyone

Work at Circuit for at least one year, vests over 5 years.

Annual company performance bonus

Paid in January and pro-rated to your start date in your joining year.

The right laptop for you

We’ll give you £3,200 every three years to buy the laptop of your choice.

£500 a year for new tech/home office

Do you need a new desk, chair, keyboard, or headphones? Build a space to do your best work.

32 days of paid holiday per year

You can use it whenever you like. Four weeks in one go, one day off (almost) every other week, or anything in between.

Invest in your wellbeing

£1000 a year for gym memberships, fitness classes, sports equipment, alternative therapies, mental health resources, and more.

Annual team meet-ups in 5-star locations

We get together once a year as a team to collaborate, get to know each other, and have fun!

Enhanced parental leave

16 weeks on full pay and up to 52 weeks in total; through birth or adoption, have the time and resources to welcome your new addition.

Connect with each other

£1,000 a year for self-organized in-person work sessions. Plan team meetups to connect and build stronger bonds.

💫 There is so much more to tell you, but we can’t fit it all into one job advert! Visit our careers page and view our public handbook at getcircuit.com/jobs.

Who we are, what we do, and how it's going

Back in 2017, we saw an issue with last-mile delivery—it was too complicated and stressful for drivers. Circuit started a mission to change that by choosing to develop an app that put the driver and their customers first.

We were astounded by the response we received. Within our first year, we had almost 1,000 customers, $100k in ARR, and a team consisting of our two co-founders, Jack and Pol. Today, we now help more than 100,000 drivers deliver over 1bn packages worldwide (about 20 a second!), $20m ARR, and a lean team of ~40.

What you will be doing 

You are an experienced Product Designer, so we won't go into the day-to-day! Joining our existing team of four, you will report directly to Pol, Co-Founder and Principal Product Designer. You'll work on Circuit Route Planner, our flagship product—a sophisticated and intuitive tool designed to simplify and streamline the work of professional delivery drivers. You’ll be involved in every aspect of its design, moving the product and the business forward by continually finding and implementing better solutions for our users.

Our flagship mobile app has worked its way to being the #1 app in the category by focusing on product quality—making sure it’s very easy to learn but also extremely efficient. As a result, it’s a highly opinionated product that requires a very fine balancing act between these two goals.

As an individual contributor, you will own and lead your design projects end-to-end and work closely with our developers, helping to make implementations as good as your designs.

What you won't be doing

• Daily stand-ups and fortnightly sprints. Expect ~one meeting per week. We’re not the right fit for you if you rely on regular meetings to keep on track

• Sacrificing quality. We have high standards and won’t rush to meet an arbitrary deadline

• Managing people. We hire senior people as ICs because we want a lean team and a flat structure. You’ll need to be okay with doing more junior tasks.

We’d love to hear from you if you:

• Have 5+ years of professional experience designing mobile apps, SaaS products, or power-user tools

• Like to solve tricky problems and create products that are a joy to use!

• Are at your happiest working on projects from start to finish - talking to users, identifying & exploring issues, designing & implementing solutions, and monitoring their success

• Instinctively know when to take your time - and when to get things done quickly

• Enjoy working autonomously, and know when to trust your gut or gather more data

• Like to get things right and done on time

• Come up with alternative ideas that accomplish goals with less complexity

• Are based in UTC-5 to UTC+2 time zones

• Can speak and write in English at a professional level

Our Hiring Process

Our hiring process for this role has three stages and usually takes around three weeks. At every step, you will have the opportunity to ask questions and ensure that we are the right choice for you.

1 - Meet our Talent Acquisition Manager

You’ll have a 45-minute video call with Sadie. It's an informal chat and an opportunity for her to find out more about you and answer any questions you may have about the job and what it is like to work at Circuit. 

2 - Work Demonstration 

You’ll have a video call with Pol, the hiring manager, and Gabriel, Staff Product Designer, that will last around an hour. During the call, you will have the opportunity to present a piece of work from your portfolio.

3- Whiteboard exercise

Finally, we will invite you to take part in a live whiteboard challenge with Pol. It should take around an hour, and it’s a great way for both you and Pol to get a feel for how you approach a project.*.

Offer! 🎉

We make an offer to the candidate who is the best fit for our team.

*If you need us to make any adjustments to our interview process or if I can make you more comfortable for our first call, please let me know. Sadie

Similar job titles for this role: Senior+ Product Designer, IC Product Designer, Lead Product Designer, Principal Product Designer, Level 6 or 7 Product Designer, IC5, IC6, Senior+ UX/UI Designer