Lead Product Designer

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 role is fully remote — you can be located anywhere in Europe with a + in France.

• 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