Lead Product Designer

This role is fully remote. You can be located anywhere in Europe with a + in France.

Cycloid is currently defining the foundations, plans, and specifications for a full-scale rewrite of the platform, including a deep integration of AI into both development and design workflows. We are rethinking architecture, UX patterns, workflows, and the entire product experience.

You will own the design function end-to-end and become the primary driver of the product design vision for this new platform. This is a hands-on IC role: deep product thinking, complex systems UX, architecture-level design, and UI execution.

The design team is currently composed of one person (who will transition out), meaning you will step into a role with full ownership and autonomy, directly collaborating with product, engineering, DevOps experts, and the Founder.

This is a product-first role. You will work on complex workflows, platform and infrastructure UX, configuration models, permissions, environment lifecycle, and the connective tissue that helps highly technical and less technical users be successful.

We value designers who understand how things are built. You don't need to be an engineer, but you must be comfortable discussing implementation constraints, reading code when useful, and collaborating efficiently with engineering teams.

• 10+ years of experience in product design, including senior or lead-level ownership of complex products.
• Proven experience driving design for technical products (developer tools, platforms, infrastructure, SaaS, DevOps, or cloud software strongly preferred).
• Demonstrated ability to own design in small or startup teams; able to bootstrap a design practice before scaling the design team progressively.
• Strong interaction design, UX architecture, and UI design skills, with a portfolio that shows systems thinking and clarity.
• Comfortable with frontend fundamentals (HTML, CSS, basic JS) and able to reason about implementation trade-offs.
• Experience influencing product strategy and collaborating closely with engineers.
• Ability to communicate design rationale, constraints, and decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Pragmatic, simplicity-oriented problem-solving mindset (KISS).
• Fluent in English.
• Startup mindset and comfort operating with autonomy.

Nice to have:

• French speaker.
• Deep understanding of the IDP, DevOps, Cloud, CMP, or developer tooling ecosystem.