Senior Principal Product Manager - Remote
Company: Circle
Location: Campbell
Posted on: January 10, 2026
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Job Description:
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. What you’ll be part of: Circle is committed to
visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an
organization, were expanding into some of the worlds 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. As a Sr.
Principal Product Manager on the Circle product team, you will be
responsible for the growth of Developers & users on Arc Network &
Circle’s platform products. You will embed deeply into the crypto
ecosystem, interface with customers, and work closely with product
design and engineering, as well as a broad set of internal teams,
to conceive product features that lead to measurable growth in the
utility of Circle’s products. You’ll collaborate with Data
scientists, designers, product engineers, Dev Rel, marketing, and
PMs to structure numerous growth initiatives. What youll work on:
Drive Growth of the Arc Network Ecosystem: Lead strategy and
execution to scale developer and protocol adoption on Arc Network.
You’ll define growth loops that increase the number and depth of
integrations across DeFi protocols, wallets, and fintechs building
on Arc. Expand Developer Adoption of Circle’s Platform Products:
Accelerate usage of Arc Hub, CCTP, Gateway, Wallets, and numerous
developer products by driving end-to-end developer engagement -
from onboarding to activation to retention. You’ll identify
friction points in developer journeys and design experiments,
product surfaces, and incentives that drive meaningful adoption and
usage growth. Enable user adoption of newly incubated consumer
products: As Circle enables Arc Hub, Wallets with partners, and
Bridge UI, you’ll drive awareness and adoption of specific first
party and partners’ consumer products by developing awareness and
constructing viral loops for adoption. Build for Network Effects
Across Chains and Protocols: Collaborate with blockchain
integration teams to expand Arc Network’s reach across L1s and L2s,
enabling seamless cross-chain interoperability. Develop the product
mechanisms, APIs, and growth strategies that create compounding
value for every new developer and protocol joining the network.
Create Scalable Growth Systems for Developers: Partner with Data
Science, Growth Engineering, and Dev Rel to instrument funnel
analytics, and usage telemetry across the Circle platform. Use
insights to iterate on developer-facing features, SDKs, and
dashboards that convert sign-ups into active, transacting users.
Shape the Developer Experience and Ecosystem Narrative: Collaborate
with Developer Relations, Product Marketing, and BD to accelerate
Arc Network and Circle’s developer stack as the trusted
infrastructure for building in onchain finance. You’ll help define
how developers discover, understand, and integrate Circle’s
platform, through docs, sandboxes, reference apps, and events.
Coordinate Growth Initiatives Across Product Verticals: Work
closely with PMs leading infrastructure products (USDC issuance,
CCTP, and wallets) to ensure cohesive developer experiences and
compounding platform effects. Align roadmap priorities to maximize
platform stickiness and onchain liquidity growth. Lead
Cross-Functional Execution at Scale: Partner across Engineering,
Design, Compliance, and Operations to deliver growth-focused
product releases and ecosystem partnerships that meet the highest
bar for technical excellence, regulatory compliance, and user
trust. 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. What you’ll be responsible for Growth
Strategy: Define and evolve growth strategies for key
infrastructure products (e.g. Arc, USDC issuance, CCTP,
Programmable Wallets, blockchain integrations). Roadmap Inputs:
Influence roadmap development, balancing market opportunity,
technical feasibility, regulatory constraints, and developer needs.
Team Leadership: Influence & lead a cross-functional team of
product managers, engineers, Dev Rel, Marketing, & PMM - foster a
culture of growth, accountability, innovation, and user empathy.
Market Insight: Stay ahead of industry trends, competitor
offerings, and regulatory developments in crypto and blockchain
infrastructure. Developer Focus: Work closely with developer
relations and partner teams to ensure the product suite meets the
evolving needs of Web3 and fintech developers. Launch Excellence:
Drive go-to-market planning and execution for feature launches in
close partnership with Marketing and Operations. What you’ll bring
to Circle: Creative product mind, an avid problem solver and a
highly collaborative team member. 10 years of product / product
marketing management, preferably in product growth initiatives.
Proven track record of shipping complex infrastructure products in
fintech, crypto, cloud, or developer platform environments. Deep
knowledge of the crypto ecosystem, including L1/L2 chains,
stablecoins, bridges, wallets, custody solutions, and on/off-ramps.
Exceptional communication, collaboration, and stakeholder
management skills. Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science,
Engineering, Economics, or a related technical or analytical field.
Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future,
with transparency at our core. We consider a wide variety of
elements when crafting our compensation ranges and total
compensation packages. Starting pay is determined by various
factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill
set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs.
Please note that compensation ranges may differ for candidates in
other locations. Base Pay Range: $212,500 - $272,500 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.
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