Circle
Lead Analyst, Product Compliance
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Lead Analyst, Product Compliance
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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.
Learn more at circle.com .
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: 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.
What You’ll Be Responsible For As a Lead Product Compliance Analyst supporting Circle’s Digital Assets and Payments product pillars, you will play a critical role in ensuring that products are designed, launched, and operated in alignment with regulatory expectations and internal compliance frameworks. You will partner closely with product, engineering, and operations teams to embed compliance throughout the product lifecycle by leading risk assessments, defining and validating control requirements, and driving cross‑functional readiness for money movement and settlement capabilities as well as USDC access and treasury initiatives. In this role, you will identify emerging compliance and operational risks, develop forward‑looking control approaches, and help shape the compliance technologies needed to support Circle’s evolving liquidity and payments infrastructure.
You will operate within the Product Compliance team and report to the Director of Product Compliance. In addition, you will play a dynamic role in supporting other product pillars including Developer, as business needs evolve. This may involve applying compliance expertise across multiple product areas, ensuring consistent risk management, and enabling compliant growth across Circle’s ecosystem.
What You’ll Work On
Lead end‑to‑end risk assessments for Digital Assets and Payments infrastructure.
Drive cross‑functional collaboration across Digital Assets and Payments programs.
Embed compliance into product development.
Develop data‑driven and AI‑enabled compliance processes.
Monitor market and regulatory developments.
Represent Liquidity and Payments in compliance and ecosystem forums.
Support strategic compliance decision‑making.
Contribute to enterprise‑level compliance frameworks.
What You’ll Bring To Circle
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, and/or risk management.
Comprehensive/expert knowledge and a deep passion of virtual assets, blockchain/distributed ledger technology, decentralized finance, decentralized identity, and other emerging web3 technologies.
Comprehensive knowledge of US/global financial regulatory compliance requirements, especially as they relate to virtual assets/blockchain.
7+ years of experience in compliance, risk management, or related functions within a fintech or crypto company, including at least 1 year of product compliance experience.
Experience/familiarity with Slack, Apple MacOS and GSuite.
Compensation Base Pay Range: $130,000 – $170,000
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.
Accommodations 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.
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Lead Analyst, Product Compliance
role at
Circle .
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.
Learn more at circle.com .
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: 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.
What You’ll Be Responsible For As a Lead Product Compliance Analyst supporting Circle’s Digital Assets and Payments product pillars, you will play a critical role in ensuring that products are designed, launched, and operated in alignment with regulatory expectations and internal compliance frameworks. You will partner closely with product, engineering, and operations teams to embed compliance throughout the product lifecycle by leading risk assessments, defining and validating control requirements, and driving cross‑functional readiness for money movement and settlement capabilities as well as USDC access and treasury initiatives. In this role, you will identify emerging compliance and operational risks, develop forward‑looking control approaches, and help shape the compliance technologies needed to support Circle’s evolving liquidity and payments infrastructure.
You will operate within the Product Compliance team and report to the Director of Product Compliance. In addition, you will play a dynamic role in supporting other product pillars including Developer, as business needs evolve. This may involve applying compliance expertise across multiple product areas, ensuring consistent risk management, and enabling compliant growth across Circle’s ecosystem.
What You’ll Work On
Lead end‑to‑end risk assessments for Digital Assets and Payments infrastructure.
Drive cross‑functional collaboration across Digital Assets and Payments programs.
Embed compliance into product development.
Develop data‑driven and AI‑enabled compliance processes.
Monitor market and regulatory developments.
Represent Liquidity and Payments in compliance and ecosystem forums.
Support strategic compliance decision‑making.
Contribute to enterprise‑level compliance frameworks.
What You’ll Bring To Circle
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, and/or risk management.
Comprehensive/expert knowledge and a deep passion of virtual assets, blockchain/distributed ledger technology, decentralized finance, decentralized identity, and other emerging web3 technologies.
Comprehensive knowledge of US/global financial regulatory compliance requirements, especially as they relate to virtual assets/blockchain.
7+ years of experience in compliance, risk management, or related functions within a fintech or crypto company, including at least 1 year of product compliance experience.
Experience/familiarity with Slack, Apple MacOS and GSuite.
Compensation Base Pay Range: $130,000 – $170,000
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.
Accommodations 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.
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