circle

Principal Product Manager

circle$200K — $260K *
US-AnywhereRemote in San Francisco, CA
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of product management experience in complex platforms, infrastructure, or financial products
  • Expertise in payments, treasury, banking, cash management, or cross-border settlements
  • Proven ability to launch enterprise-grade, revenue-generating products
  • Strong analytical skills for data-driven decision making
  • Experience influencing senior stakeholders across technical/business domains
  • Background in leading cross-functional initiatives with diverse teams
  • Excellent communication skills for strategy documentation and executive recommendations

Responsibilities

  • Own the vision and strategy for Circle's Global Treasury Management offering
  • Drive product strategy from MVP to general availability and future expansion
  • Achieve improvements in capital efficiency, settlement speed, and cost optimization
  • Define reporting and integration capabilities, including transaction APIs and ERP connectivity
  • Establish enterprise-grade operational standards for service levels and incident readiness
  • Collaborate with multiple teams to enhance product performance and user adoption
  • Conduct market analysis to inform product decisions and strategies

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility
  • Focus on inclusive financial mission with transparency
  • Engagement in a regulated financial environment
  • Opportunity to influence financial operations on a global scale
  • Partnership with various teams including product marketing and engineering
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
Industry
Founded
2013

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