Institutional Product Lead, Cycles Prime
Cycles is an open clearing protocol that lets anyone clear their debts privately, securely, and accessibly using any type of currency or credit that works for them, bringing the benefits of traditional bank clearing clubs to a broader audience.
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About Cycles
Cycles positions itself as 'The Open Clearing Protocol,' inspired by the way banks have historically formed closed clearing clubs to settle large amounts of debt using little or no actual money. Cycles aims to open up this capability to everyone, allowing individuals and institutions who would otherwise be forced to settle in cash to instead clear debts using any currency or credit that works for them. The company also offers institutional solutions, including a 'Cycles Prime' product line focused on institutional business development and product needs, suggesting it serves both individual and institutional clients in the debt clearing and settlement space.
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About the Role
You will shape product and UX for Cycles Prime and the institutional offerings that follow, designing for sophisticated financial users including traders, treasurers, ops teams, and finance leaders. You'll turn dense, high-stakes workflows into interfaces those users trust, taking the product from closed pilot to public launch and beyond. You'll partner closely with engineering to prototype, test, and ship quickly while maintaining a high quality bar. You'll run your own user research and usability testing, feeding what you learn back into the product. You'll also drive product strategy and roadmap, identifying new surfaces to build and deciding what gets shipped.
Requirements
- 5+ years shipping institutional-grade products end-to-end, in fintech, payments, trading, clearing, or crypto market infrastructure
- Track record of shipping products from 0→1 and iterating based on real customer feedback
- Understanding that institutional users want control and transparency, not hand-holding
- Strong product judgment plus real UX and information architecture skills for complex financial products
- Fluent in Figma and the modern design toolkit with solid grip on responsive design for web and mobile
- Ability to work well with engineers in fast-moving remote environments
- Portfolio that shows 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 to shipped interfaces on web and mobile
- Turn dense clearing, settlement, and treasury workflows into flows users can run with confidence
- Define and own the product's design language, UX patterns, and interaction principles
- Partner tightly with engineering to prototype, test, and ship fast without dropping the quality bar
- Run user research and usability testing and bring learnings back into the product
- Drive product strategy and roadmap, find new surfaces, prioritize work, and decide what to ship
Benefits
- 20 days (4 weeks) of paid vacation annually, plus 3 Spiritual Days
- Company closure from December 25th to January 1
- Annual Lifestyle benefits (reimbursements for gym memberships, fitness equipment, etc)
- A remote first, flexible work environment
- A home office stipend
- Annual company retreats
- Paid parental leave