VP, Global Head of Product Security and Risk

Circle
San Francisco
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 317,500 - 365,000Function: Legal, Risk & ComplianceExperience: 12-15 yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Executive communication","Strategic thinking","Ability to operate in ambiguity","Cross-functional collaboration"]

Own and evolve Circle’s global product security and risk strategy, ensuring APIs, blockchain solutions, and financial products are secure, compliant, and launch-ready across jurisdictions. Embed security, compliance, and risk requirements into product design and engineering delivery, automate scalable control frameworks to reduce adoption friction, and lead risk assessments, monitoring, testing, reporting, and remediation. Serve as an executive interface with regulators and auditors while staying current on AML, payments, cybersecurity, and digital asset regulations.

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VP, Global Head of Product Security and Risk

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Job Summary

Own and evolve Circle’s global product security and risk strategy, ensuring APIs, blockchain solutions, and financial products are secure, compliant, and launch-ready across jurisdictions. Embed security, compliance, and risk requirements into product design and engineering delivery, automate scalable control frameworks to reduce adoption friction, and lead risk assessments, monitoring, testing, reporting, and remediation. Serve as an executive interface with regulators and auditors while staying current on AML, payments, cybersecurity, and digital asset regulations.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and lead Circle’s global product security and risk strategy for APIs, blockchain solutions, and financial products across jurisdictions.
  • •Embed security, compliance, and risk requirements into product design, roadmaps, and engineering delivery processes.
  • •Enable rapid customer adoption through automation, scalable control frameworks, and clear governance models.
  • •Evaluate emerging blockchain technologies and decentralized architectures and establish risk-based approaches aligned with global regulatory expectations.
  • •Oversee product risk assessments and remediation, and lead high-performing teams across product security, compliance operations, and risk management.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 317,500 - 365,000

Key Requirements

  • •12–15+ years of experience in crypto, fintech, financial services, or financial infrastructure.
  • •Deep technical and strategic knowledge of blockchain, distributed ledger technologies, decentralized finance, digital identity, and Web3 ecosystems.
  • •Proven experience designing and scaling product risk, compliance, and security programs in highly regulated environments.
  • •10+ years of experience leading high-performing global teams.
  • •Experience securing and operating cloud-native applications and services across AWS, GCP, or similar platforms.
Experience:12-15 yearsCryptoFintechFinancial servicesFinancial infrastructureBlockchainWeb3
Skills:LeadershipExecutive communicationStrategic thinkingAbility to operate in ambiguityCross-functional collaboration
Certifications:ISO 27001/27002NIST Cybersecurity FrameworkCISSPCCSPCEHCCSK
Tech Stack:AWSGCPBlockchainDistributed ledger technologiesDecentralized financeDigital identityWeb3APIsCloud-native applicationsDecentralized architectures

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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