Lead Product Manager

Circle

Circle

Product
United States · Iowa City, IA, USA · Fairfax, VA, USA · Remote
Posted on May 13, 2024

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 part of:

Circle is looking for a Product Manager to develop web3 wallet solutions for enterprises and SMBs. Our mission is to make it easy for our customers to bring the benefits of blockchain powered apps to billions of users.
The Product Manager will be responsible for deeply understanding the business use cases across our target customer segments, identify internal and external ecosystem partners to integrate with our Programmable Wallets, and deliver solutions that bring value to enterprises and SMBs as well as the end users they serve.

What you'll work on:

  • Collaborating with BD, Solutions Engineers, and ecosystem partners to deeply understand where the demands are, and what internal or external partners we need to work with to provide solutions that meet such demands.
  • Owning strategy to bring Programmable Wallets and a broader set of our products to market in the form of solutions.
  • Owning the roadmap to deliver solutions, ensuring we are actively growing our customers both in enterprise and SMB, as well as growing their usage of active wallets and USDC.
  • Deep dive and stay up-to-date on what's happening at the frontier of blockchain technologies - account abstraction, smart contracts, intents etc. The work might involve reading and contributing to EIPs.
  • Define what a great developer experience is for both developers who have written ten’s of smart contracts and developers writing their first smart contract
  • Work with multiple internal stakeholders including legal, compliance, treasury & marketing to get these products to market.

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:

  • You have more than 7 years of product management or entrepreneurship experience, with 2+ years of building in crypto, preferably developer infrastructure tools or a protocol.
  • You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences, engineering or a related field. You have 3+ years of experience as a software developer or have previous expertise building products for developers.
  • You have a deep understanding of blockchain technologies. You actively use and experiment with dapps, read EIPs and engage with communities.
  • You are a fantastic communicator both verbally and in writing. You are used to effectively interfacing with customers and developers, as well as the open source community.
  • You are detail-oriented, highly analytical and comfortable digging into data.
  • You’re able to work effectively in a fully remote environment with teams spanning multiple time-zones (our team is across the US, Europe & Taiwan). You have experience/familiarity with Slack, Apple MacOS and GSuite.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Circle. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Additionally, Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.

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