Principal Product Manager, Core Network

Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the worlds leading internet financial platform companies building the foundation of a more open global economy through digital assets payment applications and programmable blockchain infrastructure. Circles platform includes the worlds 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 .

What youll be part of:

Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization were expanding into some of the worlds 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.

You will own the product strategy and evolution of the CPN Payments Engine the core infrastructure that powers payment creation routing settlement and lifecycle management across the network. Youll define the long-term vision and roadmap for the engine identifying opportunities to expand its capabilities while improving reliability performance and scale. Working across Engineering Compliance Operations and commercial teams youll lead complex product decisions and investments that enable OFIs and BFIs to move money efficiently across an expanding set of corridors and rails translating platform improvements into measurable network and business outcomes.

• Set the Payments Engine strategy: Own the long-term product vision and roadmap for payment creation processing routing and settlement aligning investments with CPN and Circle priorities.

• Advance payment performance at scale: Establish the product strategy for improving success rates latency resilience and processing efficiency using data to identify systemic opportunities and prioritize investments.

• Evolve API and protocol capabilities: Define the direction for OFI Payments APIs and BFI quoting and settlement protocols balancing developer experience interoperability compliance scalability and network reliability.

• Expand the capabilities of the network: Identify and lead investments that unlock new payment use cases corridors rails and partner capabilities while building reusable infrastructure that scales across the network.

• Shape observability and operational control: Define product capabilities for monitoring alerting exception management and operational tooling that improve visibility into payment health and enable faster resolution of network issues.

• Lead complex cross-functional decisions: Partner with Engineering Compliance Operations BD and other product leaders to navigate architectural and business trade-offs resolve ambiguity and drive alignment on high-impact investments.

• Establish product leadership for payment infrastructure: Develop frameworks metrics and product practices that improve decision-making across CPN mentor other product managers and serve as a subject matter expert on payment infrastructure across Circle.

• 10 years of relevant experience including significant Product Management experience building payments fintech or financial infrastructure products.

• Deep experience owning platform or infrastructure products such as APIs payment processing systems settlement platforms routing systems or developer-facing capabilities.

• Demonstrated ability to define product strategy and lead highly complex initiatives spanning multiple engineering and cross-functional teams.

• Strong analytical and technical fluency with the ability to use payment performance reliability and operational data to identify systemic issues and guide product investment decisions.

• Track record of delivering measurable improvements to large-scale systems including reliability success rates latency scalability operational efficiency or customer outcomes.

• Ability to evaluate complex technical and business trade-offs and translate them into clear product decisions priorities and long-term platform investments.

• Strong cross-functional influence and communication skills including the ability to build alignment with senior leaders and stakeholders across Engineering Compliance Operations and commercial teams.

• Deep knowledge of payment networks cross-border payments settlement systems correspondent banking stablecoins or blockchain-based financial infrastructure.

• Experience with enterprise API products two-sided networks and compliance-forward payment systems including concepts such as SLAs payment lifecycle events exception handling sanctions screening RFIs or the Travel Rule.

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.

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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