Senior Director Product, Onboarding, Compliance & Risk

Role Description

Lead the strategy and execution for Circle's onboarding, compliance, and risk platform — the system of record that powers how customers are verified, monitored, and managed for risk across Circle's products, and that Circle exposes as a platform capability to external partners. You will own the end-to-end product vision for a domain that is both mission-critical internal infrastructure and a differentiated, externally facing offering, and you will build and lead the team that delivers it.

Responsibilities

• Set and own the multi-year product strategy for Circle's onboarding, compliance, and risk platform.
• Balance the needs of internal stakeholders (Compliance, Legal, Risk, Operations) with the requirements of external customers.
• Accountable for the platform's regulatory soundness, operational scalability, and commercial viability.
• Build, mentor, and lead a team of product managers across the domain.
• Define and own the vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for the onboarding, KYC/KYB, compliance, and risk platform.
• Build and lead a high-performing product team, setting priorities and coaching PMs.
• Partner deeply with Compliance, Legal, Risk, Financial Crimes, and Operations to translate regulatory obligations into scalable, automated product capabilities.
• Productize internal compliance and risk infrastructure into reliable, externally facing platform services and APIs for partners.
• Drive the strategy for case management, risk scoring, entity screening, and monitoring systems.
• Establish the metrics, SLAs, and controls that govern onboarding conversion, false-positive rates, review throughput, and risk coverage.
• Represent the platform to executive leadership, regulators, auditors, and enterprise customers.
• Partner with Engineering and Data to ensure the platform scales securely across new products, jurisdictions, and customer segments.

Qualifications

• Extensive product leadership experience in compliance, risk, identity, onboarding, or trust & safety domains at a fintech, payments, banking, or financial infrastructure company.
• Deep, working understanding of the regulatory landscape — KYC/KYB, AML/CFT, sanctions/OWL screening, transaction monitoring, and the operational workflows that support them.
• Proven ability to deliver both internal platform infrastructure and externally facing, productized platform capabilities.
• Track record of setting strategy for a portfolio and driving execution from vision through measurable outcomes across multiple teams.
• Strong ability to lead through influence across technical, commercial, and regulatory stakeholders, up to and including the executive level.
• Strategic and analytical mindset, using data to prioritize investment and quantify risk and impact.
• Clear, concise executive communication and the judgment to navigate high-stakes, ambiguous decisions.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience in crypto, stablecoins, digital assets, or regulated financial infrastructure.
• Exposure to AI/automation applied to compliance, risk decisioning, or case management.
• Experience operating a platform used by external enterprise partners and developers.
• Familiarity operating across multiple regulatory jurisdictions.

Compensation

• Base Pay Range: $265,000 - $332,500.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.

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