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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. Learn more at circle.com.\nWhat you’ll be part of:\nCircle 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.\nWhat you'll be responsible for\nYou 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. You’ll 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, you’ll 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.\nWhat you'll work on\nSet 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.\n\nAdvance 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.\n\nEvolve 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.\n\nExpand 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.\n\nShape 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.\n\nLead 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.\n\nEstablish 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.\n\nWhat you'll bring to Circle\nCore requirements\n10+ years of relevant experience, including significant Product Management experience building payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure products.\n\nDeep experience owning platform or infrastructure products such as APIs, payment processing systems, settlement platforms, routing systems, or developer-facing capabilities.\n\nDemonstrated ability to define product strategy and lead highly complex initiatives spanning multiple engineering and cross-functional teams.\n\nStrong analytical and technical fluency, with the ability to use payment performance, reliability, and operational data to identify systemic issues and guide product investment decisions.\n\nTrack record of delivering measurable improvements to large-scale systems, including reliability, success rates, latency, scalability, operational efficiency, or customer outcomes.\n\nAbility to evaluate complex technical and business trade-offs and translate them into clear product decisions, priorities, and long-term platform investments.\n\nStrong cross-functional influence and communication skills, including the ability to build alignment with senior leaders and stakeholders across Engineering, Compliance, Operations, and commercial teams.\n\nPreferred requirements\nDeep knowledge of payment networks, cross-border payments, settlement systems, correspondent banking, stablecoins, or blockchain-based financial infrastructure.\n\nExperience 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.\n\nCircle 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.\nStarting 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.\nWe 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.\nShould you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to  for support. 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