Principal Product Manager, Risk & Fraud

About 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.

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.

What You'll Be Responsible For

As a Principal Product Manager at Circle, you will own the strategy and execution of our risk platform, ensuring it scales to support new products, markets, and global regulatory requirements. You will act as a cross-functional leader, partnering with compliance, legal, engineering, data science, and business stakeholders to align priorities and deliver resilient infrastructure that supports both crypto and traditional financial rails. By combining product vision, technical fluency, and deep compliance expertise, you will enable Circle to manage risk with precision, meet evolving regulatory expectations, and uphold the highest standards of trust and safety.

What You'll Work On

• Define the strategy and roadmap for a risk and fraud platform that supports real-time and asynchronous risk decisions across products and markets that supports crypto- and traditional financial rails, as well as risk-related use cases across onboarding, account linking, and other customer lifecycle events — with a focus on building a user-friendly rules engine and intuitive tooling for risk operators.
• Build fraud prediction and detection systems from the ground up by defining risk vectors affecting Circle's product roadmap and executing mitigating controls to address them by integrating party vendor models, and creating iterative feedback loops that learn from past fraudulent behavior.
• Define and implement observability strategies to ensure risk platform integrity, including monitoring performance, validating critical flows, and surfacing key risk indicators to inform prioritization and executive decision-making.
• Leverage AI/ML to automate risk decisioning and operational processes; lead feature/context engineering, model development, evaluation/monitoring frameworks.
• Maintain clear, comprehensive documentation of platform design, functionality, and dependencies to ensure internal transparency and audit readiness.
• Translate regulatory requirements and business needs into clear product requirements, insights, and user stories for engineering execution.
• Represent the risk platform in senior leadership and regulatory forums, aligning cross-functional strategy and demonstrating how Circle's infrastructure meets evolving compliance obligations at scale.

Core Requirements

• 10+ years of product management experience building risk, compliance, or trust & safety platforms in fintech, crypto, or financial services.
• Deep expertise in fraud typologies in consumer/SMB segments, signals & strategies to mitigate them and hands-on experience crafting risk rules.
• Deep expertise in AML, sanctions screening, and onboarding compliance (e.g., KYC/KYB).
• Track record of translating regulatory requirements into scalable, policy-driven platform capabilities that support both real-time and asynchronous risk decisioning across crypto and fiat rails.
• Experience leading modular platform design, including refactoring monolithic services into scalable, service-oriented architectures.
• Skilled in collaborating with engineering, data science, and operations teams to ship complex infrastructure products; able to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across functions.
• Highly analytical and data-driven, with experience applying ML, risk signals, and scoring models to improve detection, decisioning, and operational efficiency.
• Strong technical fluency, including working knowledge of APIs & SDKs, event-driven architectures like SNS/SQS or equivalent, SQL, GitHub or equivalent.

Preferred Requirements

• Background in RegTech, banking, or scaled fintech, with direct exposure to complex regulatory environments.
• Expertise in blockchain technologies and crypto compliance, including chain types, on-chain travel rule requirements, blockchain monitoring, and evolving crypto regulations.
• Experience with rapid prototyping using AI tools to accelerate product exploration, workflow automation, or internal tooling development.

Pay

Base Pay Range: $200,000 - $260,000