Principal Product Manager

Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies building the foundation of a more open global economy through digital assets payment applications and programmable blockchain infrastructure. Circle’s platform includes the world’s largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC Circle Payments Network for global money movement and Arc an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet. Enterprises financial institutions and developers use Circle to power trusted internet-scale financial innovation. Learn more at circle.com .

What you’ll be part of:

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 work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.

What you’ll be responsible for:

As a Principal Product Manager at Circle you will own the strategy and execution of our customer onboarding platform ensuring it scales to support new products markets and global regulatory requirements. You will act as a cross-functional leader partnering with compliance risk legal engineering and business stakeholders to align priorities and deliver solutions that balance regulatory rigor with customer experience. By combining product vision data-driven insights and deep compliance expertise you will enable Circle to expand efficiently into new markets reduce risk and uphold the highest standards of trust and integrity.

What you’ll work on:

• Define and own the product strategy and roadmap for critical components within the Circle platform prioritizing and launching scalable solutions that promote reusability and increase developer efficiency across Circle products.

• Lead the evolution of onboarding and compliance capabilities for Circle platform driving both incremental enhancements and long-term platform transformation.

• Partner with compliance legal risk engineering and product teams to design systems that balance regulatory rigor with seamless customer experiences.

• Identify and resolve process gaps bottlenecks and inefficiencies that impact onboarding speed scalability and compliance outcomes.

• Translate regulatory requirements and business needs into clear product requirements insights and user stories for engineering execution.

• Represent onboarding and platform priorities across senior forums influencing strategy and securing alignment for high-impact initiatives.

• Build and maintain documentation that clearly explains the design functionality and dependencies of onboarding systems and tools.

• Define monitor and report on platform performance metrics and risk indicators highlighting progress and challenges to executives and the Board.

• Engage with regulators auditors and examiners to demonstrate how Circle’s onboarding platform scales effectively while meeting compliance obligations. ​​

What you’ll bring to Circle:

Core Requirements

• 10+ years of experience delivering large-scale compliance onboarding or risk platforms in fintech payments or crypto.

• Hands-on experience using AI tools for prototyping and generating product mocks to accelerate design and development.

• Proven track record implementing KYB KYC and AML technologies to meet global regulatory requirements.

• Expertise in designing compliance workflows and building scalable systems that accelerate customer onboarding.

• Strong ability to translate regulatory and business needs into clear product requirements and platform strategies.

• Demonstrated leadership influencing executives and cross-functional teams to align on product direction.

• Highly analytical and data-driven with experience applying AI/ML to improve onboarding decision-making risk detection and process efficiency.

Preferred Requirements:

• Background in RegTech banking or scaled fintech with direct exposure to complex regulatory environments.

• Executive presence with the ability to represent Circle externally with regulators auditors and industry stakeholders.

Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future with transparency at our core. We consider a wide variety of elements when crafting our compensation ranges and total compensation packages.

Starting pay is determined by various factors including but not limited to: relevant experience skill set qualifications and other business and organizational needs. Please note that compensation ranges may differ for candidates in other locations.

Base Pay Range: $187500 - $240000

We are an equal opportunity employer . We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where we hire. Additionally Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations as required by law.

Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability please reach out to [email protected] for support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs.

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