Lead Product Manager, Developers

Circle is a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of digital currencies and public blockchains for payments, commerce and financial applications worldwide.

Circle

Employee count: 501-1000

Salary: 158k-240k USD

United States only

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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. Our infrastructure – including USDC, a blockchain-based dollar – helps businesses, institutions and developers harness these breakthroughs and capitalize on this major turning point in the evolution of money and technology.

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. Circlers are consistently evolving in a remote world where strength in numbers fuels team success. We have built a flexible and diverse work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.

What you’ll be responsible for:

Circle is looking for a Product Manager to build new API products that make it easy for developers to build Crypto-powered applications. Our mission is to make it easy for developers to bring the benefits of blockchain powered apps to billions of users.

The Product Manager will be responsible for products built with the infrastructure that powers our core protocols (USDC, CCTP) and includes both permissioned (SaaS offerings) and permissionless products (on-chain protocols). Some examples include: Programmable Wallets (our WaaS offering), Smart contract Platform, Gas Abstraction. The role is focussed on enabling both web3 native ecosystem developers as well as web2 enterprises to develop with Circle’s infrastructure, and requires developing in-depth knowledge of frontier Web3 technologies (e.g. Account Abstraction, Intents, Naming, many other EIPs).

What you'll work on:

Engage with ecosystem developers (anyone using USDC, CCTP, EURO-C) to understand how Circle can support them, convert those into a roadmap and get them to market (this role involves a high level of external collaboration)
Own the product vision, feature set, and roadmap to take these developer products from 0 to 1. The products would involve a mix of off-chain completely on-chain protocols.
Deep dive and stay up-to-date on what's happening at the frontier of blockchain technologies - account abstraction, smart contracts, intents etc. The work might involve reading and contributing to EIPs.
Define what a great developer experience is for both developers who have written ten’s of smart contracts and developers writing their first smart contract
Work with multiple internal stakeholders including legal, compliance, treasury marketing to get these products to market.

You will aspire to our four core values:

Multistakeholder - you have dedication and commitment to our customers, shareholders, employees and families and local communities.
Mindful - you seek to be respectful, an active listener and to pay attention to detail.
Driven by Excellence - you are driven by our mission and our passion for customer success which means you relentlessly pursue excellence, that you do not tolerate mediocrity and you work intensely to achieve your goals.
High Integrity - you seek open and honest communication, and you hold yourself to very high moral and ethical standards. You reject manipulation, dishonesty and intolerance.

What you’ll bring to Circle:

Lead Product Manager

You have more than 7 years of product management or entrepreneurship experience, with 2+ years of building in crypto, preferably developer infrastructure tools or a protocol.
You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences, engineering or a related field. You have 3+ years of experience as a software developer or have previous expertise building products for developers.
You have a deep understanding of blockchain technologies. You actively use and experiment with dapps, read EIPs and engage with communities.
You are a fantastic communicator both verbally and in writing. You are used to effectively interfacing with customers and developers, as well as the open source community.
You are detail-oriented, highly analytical and comfortable digging into data.
You’re able to work effectively in a fully remote environment with teams spanning multiple time-zones (our team is across the US, Europe Taiwan). You have experience/familiarity with Slack, Apple MacOS and GSuite.

Principal Product Manager

All the requirements of a Lead Product Manager and:
You have more than 10 years of product management experience, having evolved product portfolios that have attracted meaningful customer adoption and generated significant revenue.
You have owned product strategy for complex commercial products (preferably crypto). You have experience identifying and managing risks associated with products you own.
You have mentored other product managers in the past. You have demonstrated experience influencing partners and executives in order to achieve results.

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. We consider a wide variety of elements when crafting our compensation ranges and total compensation packages.

Starting 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.

Lead Product Manager

Base Pay Range: $157,500 - $207,500

Annual Bonus Target: 15%

Principal Product Manager

Base Pay Range: $187,500 - $240,000

Annual Bonus Target: 17.5%

Also Included: Equity Benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)). Circle has a discretionary vacation policy. We also provide 10 days of paid sick leave per year and 11 paid holidays per year in the U.S.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Circle. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Additionally, Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.

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Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Salary: 158k-240k USD

Location requirements

United States

Hiring timezones

United States +/- 0 hours

About Circle

Learn more about Circle and their company culture.

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Circle is transforming the way money moves by making it more accessible, inclusive, and efficient — increasing economic opportunity and prosperity around the globe.

At the center of digital currency innovation

Circle is a global financial technology company helping money move at internet speed. Our mission is to raise global economic prosperity through the frictionless exchange of value.

Building responsibly so you can use crypto with confidence

We are committed to transparency and stability in everything we do. That’s why we welcome clear regulation and value our engagement with regulators and policymakers. We partner with leading global financial companies and share detailed reports on how our stablecoins are backed. We are leading a more responsible, stable future for crypto.

Fostering a new era of global financial technology

Our diverse leadership teams believe in a policy-first approach for financial technology companies, which holds Circle to a higher standard of operation and helps build long-term, sustainable growth.

What drives us

Valuing our employees as stakeholders is about creating an environment where people can thrive and grow, be challenged and learn constantly – an environment that thrives on diversity by drawing competitive strength from within.

Multistakeholder: We organize, incentivize and measure ourselves against meeting the needs of all of our stakeholders — our customers, our shareholders, our employees and families, our local communities and our world.
Mindful: We seek to be present and aware, to be respectful, active listeners (with each other and with our customers alike), and to pay attention to detail. We don’t rush to judgment, and when we are swept up by strong emotions we patiently observe and acknowledge them before reacting. Our mindfulness leads to better understanding, and more respectful, careful and deliberate choices.
Driven by excellence: We are driven by our mission and our passion for customer success. Being driven also means that we relentlessly pursue excellence, that we do not tolerate mediocrity, that we reward based on merit, and that we work intensely to achieve our goals. We are a team that seeks to bring everyone along in our collective achievement.
High integrity: We seek open and honest communication, and hold ourselves to very high moral and ethical standards. Our customers and partners implicitly experience us as high integrity, and our customer centric choices demonstrate this to them again and again.