circle

Principal Product Manager

circle$200K — $260K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of product management experience, particularly in complex platforms or financial products.
  • Expertise in payments, treasury, banking, and cash management.
  • Proven success in launching and scaling enterprise-grade, revenue-generating products.
  • Strong analytical capabilities to evaluate performance and optimize outcomes.
  • Ability to define strategic product directions and influence senior stakeholders.
  • Experience coordinating cross-functional teams including Engineering and Compliance.
  • Excellent communication skills for creating strategy documents and presenting to executives.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute the Global Treasury Management product strategy and roadmap.
  • Deliver improvements in capital efficiency and settlement speed for corporate treasury teams.
  • Define reporting and integration capabilities for transaction management.
  • Establish enterprise-grade operational standards for service reliability.
  • Collaborate with marketing and revenue teams to devise go-to-market strategies.
  • Work with Engineering and customers to address friction points and enhance product performance.
  • Conduct market analysis to inform product strategies and investment decisions.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape the future of finance using stablecoin technology.
  • Work within a cross-functional team environment that values collaboration.
  • Engage with diverse industries, including crypto and global enterprises.
  • Possibility to directly impact treasury operation modernization and efficiency.
  • Remote work opportunity that promotes work-life balance.
Full Job Description
What you'll be responsible for

You will own the vision, strategy, and execution of Circle's Global Treasury Management offering, enabling corporate treasurers and finance teams to move funds across internal and affiliated accounts instantly, 24/7, using USDC, EURC, and other stablecoins. You will define and drive a multi-year product strategy that leverages Circle's regulated stablecoin infrastructure and global banking network to deliver a capital-efficient treasury solution. Working across Engineering, Treasury, Compliance, Operations, and Go-to-Market teams, you will launch and scale a trusted enterprise-grade product that helps customers optimize liquidity, reduce settlement friction, and modernize treasury operations at global scale.

What you'll work on
  • Define and execute the Global Treasury Management product strategy and roadmap, leading the product from MVP through general availability and long-term platform expansion.
  • Deliver measurable improvements in capital efficiency, settlement speed, cost optimization, and operational predictability for corporate treasury and finance teams.
  • Define reporting, reconciliation, and integration capabilities, including transaction reporting APIs, statements, transaction tagging, and ERP/TMS connectivity.
  • Establish enterprise-grade operational standards, including service levels, monitoring, alerting, incident readiness, reporting reliability, and liquidity reservation models.
  • Partner with Product Marketing, Business Development, Revenue Operations, and Pricing teams to define monetization, packaging, positioning, and go-to-market strategy.
  • Collaborate closely with Engineering, Treasury, Compliance, Operations, and customers to identify friction points, improve product performance, and accelerate adoption.
  • Conduct customer discovery and market analysis across crypto-native companies, payment service providers, global enterprises, and treasury technology partners to inform product strategy and investment decisions.
What you'll bring to Circle
Core Requirements
  • 10+ years of product management experience, including ownership of complex platform, infrastructure, payments, or financial products
  • Deep expertise in payments, treasury, banking, cash management, cross-border settlement, or financial infrastructure
  • Proven track record launching and scaling 01 products into enterprise-grade, revenue-generating businesses
  • Strong analytical skills with experience using data to drive prioritization, evaluate performance, and optimize customer and business outcomes
  • Demonstrated ability to define product strategy and influence senior stakeholders across technical and business organizations
  • Experience leading highly cross-functional initiatives involving Engineering, Compliance, Treasury, Operations, and commercial teams
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience creating strategy documents, product requirements, and executive-level recommendations
Preferred Requirements
  • Experience with corporate treasury workflows, liquidity management, cash management, or treasury management systems such as Kyriba or SAP
  • Familiarity with stablecoins, blockchain-based settlement, regulated digital asset products, or enterprise B2B API platforms
  • Knowledge of financial messaging standards, reconciliation workflows, accounting integrations, subscription-based monetization models, or compliance-driven financial products


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: $200,000 - $260,000

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About circle

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's platform has supported over 100 million transactions worth tens of billions of dollars, with nearly 10 million retail customers, over a thousand businesses, while storing and securing more than $5 billion in digital currency assets. Circle is also a principal developer of USD Coin (USDC), which together with Coinbase and the Centre Consortium oversees the standards and protocol for what has become the fastest growing, regulated, fully-reserved stablecoin. USDC now stands at well over $10 billion market cap and is adding nearly $300 million net new digital dollars in circulation every week. Today, Circle's transactional services, business accounts, and platform APIs are giving rise to a new generation of financial services and commerce applications that hold the promise of raising global economic prosperity for all through programmable internet commerce.
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Size
300 employees
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Founded
2013

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