Senior Compliance Analyst, Privacy, Protection and Partnership

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:

Circle is looking for a Senior Compliance Analyst to join the Compliance Programs team, responsible for compliance risk management through a combination of development, assessment and oversight of key compliance programs throughout Circle. As a key member of the second line of defense, this role will be responsible for the development and execution of a risk-based privacy, partnership, and customer protection program to help ensure Circle’s compliance with applicable privacy, customer protection, and bank partnership laws, regulations, policies and procedures. This Senior Compliance Analyst will provide oversight and make recommendations that significantly impact Circle’s ability to meet the expectations of our clients and of our regulators.

What you'll work on:

• Participating in privacy initiatives to assess and analyze our products from a privacy lens.
• Interacting with operational customers to ensure that we respond promptly to privacy requests and complaints.
• Conducting third party due diligence and developing materials to share with bank partners and customers about our compliance program.
• Assisting with further development of our privacy program by creating regulatory inventories, developing risk memos to outline risk and mitigants in relation to privacy, and by creating reports to detail key risk and triggers.
• Identifying regulatory challenges and changes relating to privacy and customer protection for Circle’s products and services to ensure these are addressed/implemented in good time.
• Working with cross functional teams on identified issues that relate to privacy and customer protection and ensuring that the issues are timely resolved and that the root cause of the issues is appropriately identified. 
• Interfacing with external partners and customers and other key internal stakeholders in explaining our Compliance program and ensuring responsiveness to related engagements.
• Developing reports for management and the Board on material privacy, partnership, and customer protection topics.
• Providing guidance to key business partners on privacy, partnership, and customer protection best practices and requirements.
• Providing training content for employee training on related topics.
• Collaborating with the business to strengthen compliance maturity for programs and products.

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 In