Senior Director, Global HR Operations & Technology

Circle is a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of digital currency and public blockchains for payments, commerce and financial applications worldwide. Circle platforms and products provide a suite of internet-native financial services for payments, treasury infrastructure and capital formation. Circle is also a principal developer of USD Coin (USDC), which has become the fastest growing dollar digital currency in the world. USDC has grown to over 44+ billion in circulation and supported over $1.7+ trillion in transactions in the past year. Circle’s payments and treasury infrastructure services available through the Circle Account and APIs helps bridge the legacy financial system and digital currency and blockchain based finance. Combined, Circle’s suite of services helps companies to participate in a more open, global and inclusive financial system.

What you’ll be part of:

With the mission “To raise global economic prosperity through the frictionless exchange of value,” Circle was founded on the belief that the internet, blockchains and digital currency will rewire the global economic system, creating a fundamentally more open, inclusive, efficient and integrated world economy.  We envision a global economy where people and businesses everywhere can more freely connect and transact with each other with new technologies for digital money and internet-native finance. We believe such a system can raise prosperity for people and companies everywhere. Our mission is powered by the values we espouse and which we expect all Circlers to respect. We are Multistakeholder, serving the needs of our customers, our shareholders, our employees and families, our local communities and our world. Furthermore, we are also Mindful, Driven by Excellence, and High Integrity.

What you’ll be responsible for:

As the Senior Director, Global HR Operations & Technology, you will join a greater team focused on attracting, hiring and growing the careers of our world-class talent globally. You will partner with the Chief People Officer, along with your peers on the Talent leadership team, to lead, manage, and scale our remote-first talent operations team and strategy. You will be a trusted partner to other leaders, managers and employees and will strive for a five-star Circler experience. You will be responsible to help formulate and evolve the talent operations team’s organizational design, helping set its ambitious goals, driving its productivity, and meeting its deliverables - all with the mindset of delighting our multistakeholders. As such, the company will rely on you to lead accomplishing our critical short and long-term talent operational goals.

What you'll work on:

• Own and execute a vision to iterate on our already robust investments in talent systems to create a seamless and elegant data backbone for the global Talent Team to leverage for critical insights and interactivity for leaders, partner organizations and all Circlers. 
• Iterate and build to scale infrastructure to support global HRIS administration, payroll, benefits, on-boarding, off-boarding, visa and immigration, and other important moments along the employee lifecycle.
• Own global, statutory compliance and SOX/public-ready/GDPR internal controls and processes for all people related matters. 
• In partnership with the CPO, manage the Talent Team budget and accrual processes.
• Ensure talent operations’ vision for success is tightly aligned with internal stakeholders such as Finance, IT, and Legal as well as Talent Acquisition, Talent Analytics and Rewards, and Talent Management teams.
• Hire and lead exceptional talent on your own team with a strong passion to nurture, mentor and grow their careers.
• Lead cross functional projects that transcend reporting lines, geographies and departments.
• Provide insights and recommendations to continually improve our talent operations strategy by leveraging data to inform us where things are working and where there are areas of improvement. 
• Use your global experience to lead and/or support the massive global expansion and footprint of Circle in APAC, EMEA and LATAM. 

You will aspire to our four core values:

• Multistakeholder - you have dedication and commitment to our customers, shareholders, employees and families and local communities.
• Mindful - you seek to be respectful, an active listener and to pay attention to detail.  
• Driven by Excellence - you are driven by our mission and our passion for customer success which means you relentlessly pursue excellence, that you do not tolerate mediocrity and you work intensely to achieve your goals. 
• High Integrity - you seek open a