Principal Product Manager, Risk & Fraud at Circle | AZ, US | Rezi

Principal Product Manager, Risk & Fraud at Circle

Principal Product Manager, Risk & Fraud

Circle · AZ, US

1 months ago

Principal Product Manager, Risk & Fraud

Circle · AZ, US

a month ago
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About the Role

Circle is a financial technology company building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. This role will own the strategy and execution of our risk platform, ensuring it scales to support new products, markets, and global regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Define the strategy and roadmap for a risk and fraud platform that supports real-time and asynchronous risk decisions across products and markets.
  • Build fraud prediction and detection systems from the ground up by defining risk vectors and executing mitigating controls.
  • Define and implement observability strategies to ensure risk platform integrity.
  • Leverage AI/ML to automate risk decisioning and operational processes.
  • Maintain clear, comprehensive documentation of platform design, functionality, and dependencies.
  • Translate regulatory requirements and business needs into clear product requirements, insights, and user stories for engineering execution.
  • Represent the risk platform in senior leadership and regulatory forums, aligning cross-functional strategy and demonstrating how Circle’s infrastructure meets evolving compliance obligations at scale.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of product management experience building risk, compliance, or trust & safety platforms in fintech, crypto, or financial services.
  • Deep expertise in fraud typologies in consumer/SMB segments, signals & strategies to mitigate them and hands-on experience crafting risk rules.
  • Deep expertise in AML, sanctions screening, and onboarding compliance (e.g., KYC/KYB).
  • Track record of translating regulatory requirements into scalable, policy-driven platform capabilities that support both real-time and asynchronous risk decisioning across crypto and fiat rails.
  • Experience leading modular platform design, including refactoring monolithic services into scalable, service-oriented architectures.
  • Skilled in collaborating with engineering, data science, and operations teams to ship complex infrastructure products.
  • Able to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across functions.
  • Highly analytical and data-driven, with experience applying ML, risk signals, and scoring models to improve detection, decisioning, and operational efficiency.
  • Strong technical fluency, including working knowledge of APIs & SDKs, event-driven architectures like SNS/SQS or equivalent, SQL, GitHub or equivalent.
  • Background in RegTech, banking, or scaled fintech, with direct exposure to complex regulatory environments.
  • Expertise in blockchain technologies and crypto compliance, including chain types, on-chain travel rule requirements, blockchain monitoring, and evolving crypto regulations.
  • Experience with rapid prototyping using AI tools to accelerate product exploration, workflow automation, or internal tooling development.

Skills

  • Risk management
  • Fraud detection
  • AML
  • Sanctions screening
  • KYC/KYB
  • Product strategy
  • Roadmap definition
  • AI/ML
  • APIs
  • SDKs
  • Event-driven architectures
  • SQL
  • GitHub
  • Blockchain technologies
  • Crypto compliance

Location

  • Remote

Work Type

  • Remote
  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Principal
  • 10+ years

Salary/Compensations

  • $200,000 - $260,000

About the Company

  • Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure.
  • Circle’s platform includes the world’s largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC, Circle Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet.
  • Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Circle to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation.
  • Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do.
  • Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence.
  • We have built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core.

Equal Opportunity

  • We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where we hire.
  • Additionally, Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.
  • Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to accommodations@circle.com for support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs.