Principal Product Manager

Circle • San Francisco, CA

151d • $187,500 - $240,000

About The Position

Circle is a financial technology company at the epicenter of the emerging internet of money, where value can finally travel like other digital data - globally, nearly instantly and less expensively than legacy settlement systems. This ground-breaking new internet layer opens up previously unimaginable possibilities for payments, commerce and markets that can help raise global economic prosperity and enhance inclusion. Our infrastructure - including USDC, a blockchain-based dollar - helps businesses, institutions and developers harness these breakthroughs and capitalize on this major turning point in the evolution of money and technology. Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we're expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence. We have built a flexible and diverse work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience in implementing KYC, AML, or Sanctions technologies in scaled companies, including leading programs for Fintech or crypto businesses.
• Compliance policy, product or engineering experience in either banking, consulting, or cryptocurrency required. Experience in RegTech or Fintech companies is preferred.
• You are a creative product mind, an avid problem solver and a highly collaborative team member.
• You have experience designing compliance operational workflows and deeply understand the expected rigor required in our operations.
• You are a self-starter and fast-moving when it comes to putting plans into motion - you don't need to work from a script.
• You have mentored other product managers in the past. You have demonstrated experience influencing partners and executives in order to achieve results.
• Highly quantitative, analytical, and business minded with a data-driven approach to decision making.
• Executive presence with an ability to influence and work hands-on with other cross-functional team leaders, such as lawyers, engineers, product managers, data analysts, operations analysts in improving compliance processes and systems.
• Experience leading diverse teams in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Deep experience and knowledge of traditional money laundering and terrorist financing typologies.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the product strategy for an AI-native platform that connects risk, compliance, and internal tooling into a single, composable ecosystem.
• Partner with engineering, data, and AI/ML teams to platformize internal products, delivering modular services, APIs, and infrastructure that scale with the business.
• Lead the redesign of existing tools into flexible, intelligent systems, automating critical workflows through AI and eliminating friction across compliance and risk operations.
• Build deep relationships and create strategic alliances to establish trust with key stakeholders across legal, risk, compliance, engineering, product etc. to accelerate delivery of risk and compliance initiatives.
• Proactively identify business opportunities across the company, process gaps, roadblocks, bottlenecks, and inefficiencies that will negatively impact risk and compliance platform efforts and mitigate them.
• Partner with all key stakeholders to define the product requirements, develop insights and write detailed user stories to deliver features and functionality to scale Circle's compliance functions.
• Ensure that the platform delivers regulatory-grade performance and reliability, while accelerating innovation through composability and reusability.
• Own the development and maintenance of all documentation that details the composition and inner workings of our various internal tools and systems.
• Communicate product status, metrics, goals and performance clearly to internal stakeholders throughout the organization, including impacted teams.

Benefits

• Base Pay Range: $187,500 - $240,000
• Equal opportunity employer
• Diversity and inclusion initiatives
• Accommodations for interview process

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Social Assistance
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees