Institutional Product Lead, Cycles Prime
Cycles is developing an open clearing protocol that enables people to privately and securely clear debts using currencies or credit of their choice.
Funding history
About Cycles
Cycles presents an open clearing protocol intended to make debt clearing accessible beyond traditional banking clubs. Its website describes private, secure clearing using different types of currency or credit, and links to its Pay and Prime offerings, whitepaper, blog, careers, and contact channels.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Shape product and UX for Cycles Prime and future institutional offerings, designing for traders, treasurers, operations teams, and finance leaders. Turn complex financial workflows into trusted interfaces, partner with engineering to prototype and ship quickly, conduct user research and usability testing, and guide product strategy from closed pilot through public launch.
Requirements
- 5+ years shipping institutional-grade products end-to-end in fintech, payments, trading, clearing, or crypto market infrastructure.
- Track record of shipping 0-to-1 products and iterating based on customer feedback.
- Understanding of institutional users' need for control and transparency.
- Strong product judgment, UX, and information architecture skills for complex financial products.
- Fluency in Figma and modern design tools, with responsive web and mobile design experience.
- Ability to work effectively with engineers in fast-moving remote environments.
- Portfolio demonstrating systems thinking and clear UX reasoning.
- Based in New York and able to be in the city most weeks.
Responsibilities
- Lead product and design across institutional products from discovery and user research through shipped web and mobile interfaces.
- Turn clearing, settlement, and treasury workflows into confident, usable product flows.
- Define the product design language, UX patterns, and interaction principles.
- Partner with engineering to prototype, test, and ship quickly while maintaining quality.
- Run user research and usability testing and incorporate findings into the product.
- Drive product strategy and roadmap, identify new surfaces, prioritize work, and decide what to ship.
Benefits
- 20 days of paid vacation annually plus 3 Spiritual Days
- Company closure from December 25th to January 1
- Annual lifestyle benefits and reimbursements
- Remote-first, flexible work environment
- Home office stipend
- Annual company retreats
- Paid parental leave
