Senior Director Product, Onboarding, Compliance & Risk

Circle
San Francisco
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 265,000 - 332,500 annuallyFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceSkills: ["Leadership","Executive communication","Strategic thinking","Analytical mindset","Influence"]

Own Circle’s onboarding, compliance, and risk platform as a productized system of record powering verification, monitoring, and risk management across Circle’s products and external partner capabilities. Lead multi-year product strategy and roadmap, build and mentor a product team, partner with Compliance, Legal, Risk, Financial Crimes, and Operations to translate KYC/KYB and AML/CFT obligations into scalable tooling, and drive metrics, controls, and executive/regulator representation.

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Senior Director Product, Onboarding, Compliance & Risk

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Job Summary

Own Circle’s onboarding, compliance, and risk platform as a productized system of record powering verification, monitoring, and risk management across Circle’s products and external partner capabilities. Lead multi-year product strategy and roadmap, build and mentor a product team, partner with Compliance, Legal, Risk, Financial Crimes, and Operations to translate KYC/KYB and AML/CFT obligations into scalable tooling, and drive metrics, controls, and executive/regulator representation.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set and own the multi-year product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Circle’s onboarding, compliance, and risk platform.
  • •Build and lead a high-performing product team by setting priorities, coaching PMs, and establishing the domain operating rhythm.
  • •Partner with Compliance, Legal, Risk, Financial Crimes, and Operations to translate regulatory obligations (KYC/KYB, AML/CFT, sanctions, transaction monitoring) into scalable product capabilities.
  • •Productize internal compliance and risk infrastructure into reliable, documented, externally facing platform services and APIs for partners.
  • •Define the metrics, SLAs, and controls for onboarding conversion, false-positive rates, review throughput, and risk coverage; represent the platform to executives, regulators, auditors, and enterprise customers.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 265,000 - 332,500 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Extensive product leadership experience building and leading product teams in compliance, risk, identity, onboarding, or trust & safety domains.
  • •Deep working understanding of regulatory requirements and workflows including KYC/KYB, AML/CFT, sanctions/OWL screening, and transaction monitoring.
  • •Ability to deliver both internal platform infrastructure and externally facing, productized platform capabilities.
  • •Track record of setting strategy for a portfolio and driving execution across multiple teams with measurable outcomes.
  • •Strong executive communication and judgment for high-stakes, ambiguous decisions.
Experience:FintechPaymentsBankingFinancial infrastructureComplianceRiskIdentityOnboardingTrust & safety
Skills:LeadershipExecutive communicationStrategic thinkingAnalytical mindsetInfluence

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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