Principal Product Operations and Risk Analyst

Circle - Referrals$185K — $237K *
US-Anywhere
+ 25 other locationsRemote
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in risk management for B2B and B2C products within financial services or technology sectors.
  • Demonstrated executive presence and ability to influence cross-functional leaders such as lawyers, engineers, and product managers.
  • Proven experience leading diverse teams in a complex, matrixed organization.
  • Deep understanding of risk management principles, methodologies, and frameworks, including market, credit, operational, and compliance risk.
  • Ability to build and define Enterprise Risk Management frameworks and programs.
  • Experience fostering a risk culture in a fast-paced, evolving business environment, ideally in tech or finance.
  • Proficiency in data analysis using SQL.
  • Strong communication skills to present data-driven business insights effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Support day-to-day management of Circle's Product Risk Management function.
  • Analyze product performance data to identify improvement opportunities and derive actionable insights.
  • Collaborate with executives and C-level leaders to enhance cross-organizational efficiencies and collaboration.
  • Manage product-related processes, including development, user research, and launches with proper tooling.
  • Establish and enforce documentation, testing, and release management standards for the product team.
  • Monitor and mitigate product risks post-launch, ensuring adherence to established product processes.
  • Lead assessments and reporting on business-related risks, collaborating with compliance, legal, and finance teams.

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment that encourages new ideas and allows employees to be stakeholders.
  • Commitment to an inclusive and transparent financial future.
  • Participation in the E-Verify Program for compliance with hiring laws.
Full Job Description
What you'll be responsible for:

Support the day-to-day management and operation of Circle's Product Risk Management function. The goal of this function is to partner closely with Product Managers to identify, assess, prioritize, mitigate, and report on product risks. The role supports the overall Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Program's goal of maintaining and growing Circle's resiliency by identifying, assessing, and preparing its operations for any internal and external factors and risks that could interfere with reaching its goals and objectives.

What you'll work on:
  • Help drive business strategy by collecting and analyzing data to track product performance such as user behavior, product usage, and customer feedback. Find opportunities for improvement and regularly present on product performance and product/business insights.
  • Work with executives and C-level leaders across product and engineering to define cross-org processes to increase execution efficiencies and facilitate cross-team collaboration.
  • Drive product processes, such as the product development process, the user research process, and the product launch process. Select and rollout tools, such as product management software, data analysis tools.
  • Drive product related policy management, issue management, change management, risk assessment, third-party risk management, and training.
  • Build standards for the product team, such as documentation standards, testing standards, and release management standards.
  • Ensure product and XFN teams follow standard product launch processes to build and launch products, identify, understand and mitigate risks. Implement, drive and ensure that teams are effectively monitoring product risks post launch and doing issue management.
  • Lead assessments, monitoring, and reporting on risks inherent to business activities, including compliance, legal, security, finance and 3rd parties. Self-identify, report, monitor, and remediate issues.
  • Support the ongoing risk management across functions by engaging as a key business partner with ERM, early in the process, in risk discussions and ad-hoc interactions to support ongoing risk identification, ownership, mitigation and acceptance.
  • Lead and implement periodic reviews, executive level reporting, and recommend updates to the policies, processes, tools, and templates to reflect the changing environment (e.g., new products).
  • Work with auditors and regulators on audits and identify new mitigations and follow through across teams.


What you'll bring to Circle:

Principal Product Operations and Risk Analyst

  • 10+ years working in risk management for B2B and B2C products and experience working in a financial services, payments or technology companies
  • Executive presence with an ability to influence and work hands-on with other cross-functional team leaders, such as lawyers, engineers, and product managers.
  • Experience leading diverse teams in a complex, matrixed organization.
  • Experience working at the intersection of Product and Risk and a solid understanding of risk management principles, methodologies, and frameworks, including knowledge of market, credit, operational, and compliance risk.
  • Ability to build and define Enterprise Risk Management frameworks and programs.
  • Experience in embedding a risk culture in a rapidly growing business environment, preferable technology or financial services.
  • Proficiency in data analyses using SQL
  • Partner with leaders effectively employing clear and structured communication to tell a "story" focused on business insights & data.


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: $185,000 - $237,500

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