Director, Product Management

What you’ll be responsible for:

As a Director on the Circle product team, you will build next generation commercial banking experiences for our customers by harnessing the power of crypto assets and blockchain technology. You will interface with customers and work closely with product design and engineering, as well as a broad set of internal teams, to conceive and launch amazing user experiences that are used by thousands of businesses. You will lead a team of product managers to deliver maximum impact on the product roadmap.

What you'll work on:

• Owning one of Circle’s product verticals - its vision, feature set and roadmap.
• Conceiving and building user experiences that deliver on our customers’ needs by leveraging an innovative infrastructure for money.
• Collaborating with senior product leadership and other product managers to align roadmaps and conceive projects that support product iterations.
• Interacting with customers’ business, finance and product teams to deeply understand their needs, and translate those into business cases, feature themes, product requirements and roadmaps.
• Collaborating with various teams across Circle, sharing customer pain points and discussing new product ideas, communicating product vision, strategy and roadmaps, and gaining alignment as well as unblocking progress.
• Partnering with product design leaders to imagine and define new experiences that are better, cheaper, faster and more interoperable than the current generation of financial services.
• Categorizing customers’ needs into segments, prioritizing initiatives according to business strategy, and maintaining an up-to-date product roadmap that delivers on the Circle product vision.
• Working closely with legal and regulatory compliance teams at Circle to ensure appropriate alignment with regulatory requirements.
• Managing multiple parallel projects and iterations alongside engineering, and ensuring timely delivery of feature releases.
• Attracting, recruiting, managing and retaining a team of product managers.

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:

• Creative product mind, an avid problem solver and a highly collaborative team member.
• 5 or more years of experience in product leadership roles including people management responsibility.
• 10 or more years of experience in product management or as a founder.
• Experience conceiving best-in-class user experiences. You have shipped successful financial services products that users love.
• Fantastic communicator both verbally and in writing. You are used to effectively interfacing with customers and executives, as well as architects and developers.
• Detail-oriented, highly analytical and comfortable digging into large datasets.
• Self-starter and fast-moving when it comes to putting plans into motion – you don't need to work from a script.
• Experience/familiarity with Slack, Apple MacOS and GSuite.