Senior Director, Compliance and Risk Platform - Circle : Job Details

Circle is a financial technology company at the epicenter of the emerging internet of money, where value can finally travel like other digital data — globally, nearly instantly and less expensively than legacy settlement systems. This ground-breaking new internet layer opens up previously unimaginable possibilities for payments, commerce and markets that can help raise global economic prosperity and enhance inclusion.

What you'll be part of:

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: Multistakeholder, Mindfulness, Driven by Excellence and High Integrity.

What you'll be responsible for:

Circle is looking for a senior product leader to own and drive the company's entire risk and compliance platform product strategy and implementation. This role will oversee the design and development of a risk and compliance platform product and infrastructure to support the global risk and compliance programs and strategic direction of Circle.

• Own the Compliance and Risk Platform Product Strategy and associated product roadmap, including stakeholder coordination, business requirements development and prioritization assessment.
• Hire and grow a global team of product managers for Compliance and Risk Platform.
• Lead the evolution of our existing tools and systems, making incremental improvements along the way while developing the solutions to reimagine those systems.
• Build deep relationships and create strategic alliances to establish trust with key stakeholders across legal, risk, compliance, engineering, product etc.
• Proactively identify process gaps, roadblocks, bottlenecks, and inefficiencies that will negatively impact risk and compliance platform efforts and mitigate them.
• Partner with all key stakeholders to define the product requirements, develop insights and write detailed user stories to deliver features and functionality to scale Circle's Risk and compliance functions.
• Represent risk and compliance needs at the highest levels across the organization and be capable of advocating for and/or defending decisions associated with the defined strategy and execution plans.
• Own the development and maintenance of all documentation that details the composition and inner workings of the Compliance Platform.
• Participate in all aspects of the development life cycle, from definition through deployment and support.
• Communicate product status, metrics, goals and performance clearly to internal stakeholders throughout the organization.
• Develop, monitor and report on a suite of KPIs / KRIs for various internal reviews including Executive Leadership and Board-level reporting.
• Present to regulators, examiners and auditors performing reviews of the Compliance program.

What you'll bring to Circle:

• 15+ years of relevant experience in implementing KYC, AML, or Sanctions technologies in scaled companies, including leading programs for Fintech or crypto businesses.
• 10+ years in executive, managerial or people leadership capacities, or equivalent entrepreneurship roles.
• Experience in RegTech or Fintech companies is preferred.
• Highly quantitative, analytical, and business minded with a data-driven approach to decision making.
• Ability to lead, influence, and motivate individuals and teams.
• Experience leading diverse teams in a complex, matrixed organization.

Additional Information:

• This position is eligible for day-one PERM sponsorship for qualified candidates.

Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core.

Base Pay Range: $242,500 - $302,500

Also Included: Equity & Benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Circle.