Senior Director Product, Onboarding, Compliance & Risk
CircleAbout the role
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.
Lead the strategy and execution for Circle's onboarding, compliance, and risk platform — the system of record that powers how customers are verified, monitored, and managed for risk across Circle's products, and that Circle exposes as a platform capability to external partners. You will own the end-to-end product vision for a domain that is both mission-critical internal infrastructure and a differentiated, externally facing offering, and you will build and lead the team that delivers it.
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. Learn more at circle.com.
Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow, we're expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions, and our employees live by our company values: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence.
You will set and own the multi-year product strategy for Circle's onboarding, compliance, and risk platform, balancing the needs of internal stakeholders (Compliance, Legal, Risk, Operations) with the requirements of external customers who consume these capabilities as a product. You will be accountable for the platform's regulatory soundness, operational scalability, and commercial viability, and for building, mentoring, and leading a team of product managers across the domain. This is a senior leadership role that sets direction for a portfolio, influences company-level roadmap and investment decisions, and represents the domain to executives, regulators, auditors, and enterprise partners.
- Define and own the vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for the onboarding, KYC/KYB, compliance, and risk platform, spanning both internal tooling and externally exposed platform capabilities
- Build and lead a high-performing product team, setting priorities, coaching PMs, and establishing the operating rhythm for the domain
- Partner deeply with Compliance, Legal, Risk, Financial Crimes, and Operations to translate regulatory obligations (KYC/KYB, AML/CFT, sanctions, transaction monitoring) into scalable, automated product capabilities
- Productize internal compliance and risk infrastructure into reliable, well-documented, externally facing platform services and APIs for partners
- Drive the strategy for case management, risk scoring, entity screening, and monitoring systems, including how AI and automation reduce manual review and improve decision quality
- Establish the metrics, SLAs, and controls that govern onboarding conversion, false-positive rates, review throughput, and risk coverage
- Represent the platform to executive leadership, regulators, auditors, and enterprise customers, and align cross-functional stakeholders around trade-offs
- Partner with Engineering and Data to ensure the platform scales securely across new products, jurisdictions, and customer segments
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