Principal Product Manager, AI Platform

Job Description

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.

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 and diverse 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. 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: Multistakeholder, Mindfulness, Driven by Excellence and High Integrity. 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.

What you’ll be responsible for:Circle is seeking a deeply technical and visionary Principal Product Manager to lead the strategy and end-to-end delivery of an AI-native platform. This role is pivotal in transforming our internal products & tools into a unified, composable platform that connects and scales seamlessly across all of Circle’s internal systems and data services.

You will oversee the design and development of various internal tools & data systems and partner with engineering leads to translate complex technical capabilities into a cohesive platform that accelerates our enterprise and unlocks new forms of customer value. We are seeking someone with a demonstrated history of successfully launching several user facing products and internal tools, owning and managing large, complex program areas and engaging with cross-functional teams, and numerous stakeholders, directly and through influence. This role demands an entrepreneurial product thinker who thrives in complexity, has a deep technical understanding, and can translate ambitious ideas into scalable product outcomes.

What you’ll work on:Define and champion a compelling long-term vision for the AI Platform, aligning the roadmap with Circle’s strategic goals of enterprise acceleration, data democratization, and pioneering new agentic systems. Own the end-to-end product definition and lifecycle for the AI Platform. Translate strategic objectives into a prioritized roadmap of core services, frameworks, and developer tools.

Partner with engineering, data, and AI/ML teams to platformize internal products, delivering modular services, APIs, and infrastructure that scale with the business. Partner with the AI engineering team and engage in technical discussions on architectural decisions, model evaluations, system design, and the feasibility of new AI capabilities to ensure the platform is scalable, reliable, and secure. Operationalize an automated evaluation & safety framework that achieves high prompt‑test coverage and surfaces unified usage, quality, cost, and latency dashboards.

Deploy AI‑driven compliance automation that lowers analyst total‑handling‑time and application submission time. Proactively identify business opportunities across the company, process gaps, roadblocks, bottlenecks, and inefficiencies that will negatively impact risk and compliance platform efforts and mitigate them. Partner with all key stakeholders to define the product scope, develop insights and author detailed product requirements to deliver features and functionality to scale Circle’s AI use cases.

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