Principal Product Operations and Risk Analyst

• Help drive business strategy by collecting and analyzing data to track product performance such as user behavior product usage and customer feedback. Find opportunities for improvement and regularly present on product performance and product/business insights.
• Work with executives and C-level leaders across product and engineering to define cross-org processes to increase execution efficiencies and facilitate cross-team collaboration.
• Drive product processes such as the product development process the user research process and the product launch process. Select and rollout tools such as product management software data analysis tools.
• Drive product related policy management issue management change management risk assessment third-party risk management and training.
• Build standards for the product team such as documentation standards testing standards and release management standards.
• Ensure product and XFN teams follow standard product launch processes to build and launch products identify understand and mitigate risks. Implement drive and ensure that teams are effectively monitoring product risks post launch and doing issue management.
• Lead assessments monitoring and reporting on risks inherent to business activities including compliance legal security finance and 3rd parties. Self-identify report monitor and remediate issues.
• Support the ongoing risk management across functions by engaging as a key business partner with ERM early in the process in risk discussions and ad-hoc interactions to support ongoing risk identification ownership mitigation and acceptance.
• Lead and implement periodic reviews executive level reporting and recommend updates to the policies processes tools and templates to reflect the changing environment (e.g. new products).
• Work with auditors and regulators on audits and identify new mitigations and follow through across teams.

• 10+ years working in risk management for B2B and B2C products and experience working in a financial services payments or technology companies
• Executive presence with an ability to influence and work hands-on with other cross-functional team leaders such as lawyers engineers and product managers.
• Experience leading diverse teams in a complex matrixed organization.
• Experience working at the intersection of Product and Risk and a solid understanding of risk management principles methodologies and frameworks including knowledge of market credit operational and compliance risk.
• Ability to build and define Enterprise Risk Management frameworks and programs.
• Experience in embedding a risk culture in a rapidly growing business environment preferable technology or financial services.
• Proficiency in data analyses using SQL
• Partner with leaders effectively employing clear and structured communication to tell a "story" focused on business insights & data.

What We Do

Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is a global internet financial platform company powering the foundation of an open borderless and programmable economy. Circle connects financial institutions enterprises and developers to the next generation of the internet financial system through digital assets such as USDC Circle Payments Network for global money movement and Arc an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet. Supporting trillions of dollars in economic activity and serving hundreds of millions of users worldwide Circle enables value to move with the speed security and transparency of the internet. 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.

Why Work With Us

Our employees are treated as people first with a real purpose for being here. Circle has created an environment where people can thrive grow be challenged and constantly build on their career. It's this same environment that draws competitive strength from within our employee base.

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