Senior 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.

As a Sr. Principal Product Manager on the Circle product team you will be responsible for the growth of Developers & users on Arc Network & Circle’s platform products. You will embed deeply into the crypto ecosystem interface with customers and work closely with product design and engineering as well as a broad set of internal teams to conceive product features that lead to measurable growth in the utility of Circle’s products. You’ll collaborate with Data scientists designers product engineers Dev Rel marketing and PMs to structure numerous growth initiatives.

What you'll work on:

• Drive Growth of the Arc Network Ecosystem: Lead strategy and execution to scale developer and protocol adoption on Arc Network. You’ll define growth loops that increase the number and depth of integrations across DeFi protocols wallets and fintechs building on Arc.

• Expand Developer Adoption of Circle’s Platform Products: Accelerate usage of Arc Hub CCTP Gateway Wallets and numerous developer products by driving end-to-end developer engagement - from onboarding to activation to retention. You’ll identify friction points in developer journeys and design experiments product surfaces and incentives that drive meaningful adoption and usage growth.

• Enable user adoption of newly incubated consumer products: As Circle enables Arc Hub Wallets with partners and Bridge UI you’ll drive awareness and adoption of specific first party and partners’ consumer products by developing awareness and constructing viral loops for adoption.

• Build for Network Effects Across Chains and Protocols: Collaborate with blockchain integration teams to expand Arc Network’s reach across L1s and L2s enabling seamless cross-chain interoperability. Develop the product mechanisms APIs and growth strategies that create compounding value for every new developer and protocol joining the network.

• Create Scalable Growth Systems for Developers: Partner with Data Science Growth Engineering and Dev Rel to instrument funnel analytics and usage telemetry across the Circle platform. Use insights to iterate on developer-facing features SDKs and dashboards that convert sign-ups into active transacting users.

• Shape the Developer Experience and Ecosystem Narrative: Collaborate with Developer Relations Product Marketing and BD to accelerate Arc Network and Circle’s developer stack as the trusted infrastructure for building in onchain finance. You’ll help define how developers discover understand and integrate Circle’s platform  through docs sandboxes reference apps and events.

• Coordinate Growth Initiatives Across Product Verticals: Work closely with PMs leading infrastructure products (USDC issuance CCTP and wallets) to ensure cohesive developer experiences and compounding platform effects. Align roadmap priorities to maximize platform stickiness and onchain liquidity growth.

• Lead Cross-Functional Execution at Scale: Partner across Engineering Design Compliance and Operations to deliver growth-focused product releases and ecosystem partnerships that meet the highest bar for technical excellence regulatory compliance and user trust.

• Conceiving and building user experiences that deliver on our customers’ needs by leveraging an innovative infrastructure for money.

• Collaborating with senior product leadership and other product managers to align roadmaps and conceive projects that support product iterations.

• Interacting with customers’ business finance and product teams to deeply understand their needs and translate those into business cases feature themes product requirements and roadmaps.

• Collaborating with various teams across Circle sharing customer pain points and discussing new product ideas communicating product vision strategy and roadmaps and gaining alignment as well as unblocking progress.

• Partnering with product design leaders to imagine and define new experiences that are better cheaper faster and more interoperable than the current generation of financial services.

• Categorizing customers’ needs into segments prioritizing initiatives according to business strategy and maintaining an up-to-date product roadmap that delivers on the Circle product vision.

• Working closely with legal and regulatory compliance teams at Circle to ensure appropriate alignment with regulatory requirements.

• Managing multiple parallel projects and iterations alongside engineering and ensuring timely delivery of feature releases.

What you’ll be responsible for

• Growth Strategy: Define and evolve growth strategies for key infrastructure products (e.g. Arc USDC issuance CCTP Programmable Wallets blockchain integrations).

• Roadmap Inputs: Influence roadmap development balancing market opportunity technical feasibility regulatory constraints and developer needs.

• Team Leadership: Influence & lead a cross-functional team of product managers engineers Dev Rel Marketing & PMM - foster a culture of growth accountability innovation and user empathy.

• Market Insight: Stay ahead of industry trends competitor offerings and regulatory developments in crypto and blockchain infrastructure.

• Developer Focus: Work closely with developer relations and partner teams to ensure the product suite meets the evolving needs of Web3 and fintech developers.

• Launch Excellence: Drive go-to-market planning and execution for feature launches in close partnership with Marketing and Operations.

What you’ll bring to Circle:

• Creative product mind an avid problem solver and a highly collaborative team member.

• 10+ years of product / product marketing management preferably in product growth initiatives.

• Proven track record of shipping complex infrastructure products in fintech crypto cloud or developer platform environments.

• Deep knowledge of the crypto ecosystem including L1/L2 chains stablecoins bridges wallets custody solutions and on/off-ramps.

• Exceptional communication collaboration and stakeholder management skills.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science Engineering Economics or a related technical or analytical field.

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: $212500 - $272500

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.

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