Senior Counsel, Ethics and Compliance

What you’ll be responsible for:

Under the direction of the Assistant General Counsel, Corporate Governance & Employment, you will play an immediate and direct role in our ethics program, advising the company on a wide-range of ethics matters, overseeing the design, implementation and operation, driving ethics compliance goal setting and performance, and aligning and coordinating priorities and activities with functional stakeholders. In relation to becoming a public company, you will advise and implement public company policies, including an ESG program.

What you'll work on:

• Developing, leading, managing and maintaining a world class global ethics function, including driving program objectives, milestones, metrics and reporting to continually enhance and scale the ethics programs.
• Partnering with our Risk and Talent teams, preparing, maintaining and regularly assessing policies, procedures, and controls to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations, including anti-corruption, competition, conflicts of interest, insider trading, and gifts, meals & entertainment.
• Advising Company stakeholders on comprehensive public company policies, including ESG program, and supporting the implementation and maintenance thereof.
• Providing training and mentoring worldwide on compliance with the Company’s ethics program, code of business conduct, and other related policies/procedures.
• Conducting, overseeing and providing support in connection with internal investigations.
• Proactively identifying ethics compliance risk areas and strategies to mitigate them. 

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:

• 10 years of legal experience with a strong knowledge of:
  • Development and management of an effective ethics program, including relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards; and
  • Broad policy-making and compliance experience, including implementation of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) tools and systems. 
  • Public company policy and compliance matters, including ESG programs.
• Experience working with and presenting to SVP-level leadership and board of directors.
• You are passionate about financial technology and the disruptive potential of cryptocurrency and blockchains, are a team player with a sense of humour, and enjoy learning but also mentoring.
• You are comfortable working in an evolving and growing environment that is prone to changes, and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• You apply sound, practical business judgment to your legal recommendations, and are creative at solving problems while balancing important legal risks for the business.
• You can work autonomously and independently with minimal guidance but are also comfortable working collaboratively as part of a team.
• You have a JD (or foreign equivalent degree) and active membership in at least one US State Bar. Prior in-house experience for at least 5 years a must, including public traded companies.
• Experience/familiarity with Slack, Apple MacOS and GSuite.