Director of Ecosystem Growth, Emerging Markets

Circle
Dubai
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Marketing & GrowthSkills: ["Execution","Prioritization","Cross-functional collaboration","Communication","Judgment"]

Own Circle’s unmanaged international portfolio across priority emerging markets, ensuring they receive the right commercial attention and cross-functional coordination. Identify and prioritize highest-potential countries, clients, and opportunities, roll out repeatable market-entry and growth motions, and coordinate execution with business, legal, compliance, policy, product, marketing, and operations. Lead one-off country initiatives and develop country-level views including metrics and regulatory posture.

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Director of Ecosystem Growth, Emerging Markets

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Job Summary

Own Circle’s unmanaged international portfolio across priority emerging markets, ensuring they receive the right commercial attention and cross-functional coordination. Identify and prioritize highest-potential countries, clients, and opportunities, roll out repeatable market-entry and growth motions, and coordinate execution with business, legal, compliance, policy, product, marketing, and operations. Lead one-off country initiatives and develop country-level views including metrics and regulatory posture.
Location: Dubai
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Marketing & Growth
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own day-to-day coverage of Circle’s unmanaged country portfolio, keeping priority markets moving without dedicated in-country leadership.
  • •Identify and prioritize highest-potential countries, clients, and opportunities and route them to the right business and functional owners.
  • •Roll out light-touch, repeatable market motions, including client prioritization, market-entry planning, and AI-enabled execution tools.
  • •Coordinate unmanaged-country execution across business, legal, compliance, policy, product, marketing, and operations.
  • •Support one-off strategic projects (e.g., launching a new country, GTM model pressure-testing, preparing markets for future managed coverage) and develop country-level views and metrics.

Key Requirements

  • •12+ years of experience in business development, growth, market expansion, strategy, program leadership, or general management.
  • •Proven experience operating across multiple countries/markets with differing regulatory, commercial, and operational conditions.
  • •Strong commercial instincts with a bias toward action, execution, and measurable outcomes.
  • •Ability to quickly assess markets and translate ambiguity into a practical action plan.
  • •Strong written and verbal communication skills to synthesize complex market situations into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders.
Experience:International expansionGrowth strategyCryptoStablecoinsPayments
Skills:ExecutionPrioritizationCross-functional collaborationCommunicationJudgment
Tech Stack:StablecoinsUSDCPaymentsBlockchainChatGPTGeminiSlackMacOSGSuite

Company Brief

Circle
Provides blockchain-based financial infrastructure and stablecoins (notably USDC and EURC) and payment solutions for enterprises, developers, and financial institutions to enable programmable money and global payments.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York City, United States
Founded: 2013
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