Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Build and operate production data pipelines, models, and data products supporting finance, accounting, treasury, compliance, and regulatory reporting. Partner cross-functionally to define requirements, model on-chain and internal data, and ensure data reliability through reconciliation, quality checks, monitoring, and alerting. Use SQL, Python, cloud data warehouse, Airflow, dbt, and AI tooling. Mentor engineers, review technical work, document systems, and communicate data concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

Leads conceptual creative development for brand campaigns, launches, partnerships, and physical and digital experiences. Simplifies blockchain, payments, and financial infrastructure into compelling narratives; interprets briefs strategically; and prototypes ideas using AI, code, and design tools. Partners with designers, copywriters, engineers, and creative leaders to deliver polished executions while maintaining high standards for originality and craft.

Leads creative production from concept through delivery across film, digital, social, experiential, immersive, and emerging formats. Partners with creative leaders, agencies, production companies, and stakeholders to determine production approaches, manage budgets and timelines, solve complex execution challenges, and maintain exceptional creative quality. Explores and operationalizes AI-enabled production techniques, evaluates emerging tools, and shares production expertise across the Creative & Design team.

Temporary six-month Talent Acquisition Operations Associate responsible for high-volume and complex interview scheduling, resolving conflicts, supporting candidates and interview teams, covering coordinator duties, using AI tools to improve workflows, and assisting with recruiting projects. The role requires at least one year of talent acquisition coordination experience, strong communication and organizational skills, professionalism under pressure, and proficiency with Google Suite, Slack, and macOS.

Investigate complex AML cases, review transaction-monitoring alerts, determine SAR/STR filing decisions, and communicate findings to regulators, law enforcement, and stakeholders. The role also supports audits, improves AML detection models and typology coverage, analyzes transactional data, identifies financial crime trends, and provides analyst training. Candidates need strong blockchain, AML regulations, investigative writing, and blockchain forensic tool experience, with AI and SQL capabilities preferred or advantageous.

Leads the engineering team building Circle’s customer onboarding and lifecycle management platform. Responsibilities include developing scalable onboarding automation, customer lifecycle capabilities, partner-facing APIs and SDKs, compliance tools, and product-specific verification workflows. The role owns architecture, reliability, security, operational excellence, cross-functional delivery, hiring, coaching, and development of senior and staff engineers across risk, compliance, fraud, product, and engineering teams.

Leads strategic partner management across the Americas, driving adoption, launches, activation, growth, and long-term value for Circle’s payments and digital asset products. Builds executive relationships with major platforms, financial institutions, corporates, and commerce partners. Develops success and launch plans, coordinates onboarding and cross-functional execution, manages escalations, forecasts go-live dates, and provides consultative regional growth direction.

Leads Circle National Trust’s operations, compliance, governance, business planning, regulatory engagement, audits, risk mitigation, and cross-functional resource coordination. The role reports to Circle executives and the Trust Board, ensures efficient and compliant fiduciary and custody operations, develops the business foundation, and promotes strong governance, communication, and operational performance within a regulated financial services environment.

Provides legal leadership for M&A, strategic transactions, venture investments, and financial partnerships with banks and financial institutions. Independently manages deals from structuring and diligence through negotiation, signing, closing, and integration. Drafts and negotiates transaction and financial services agreements, coordinates cross-functional stakeholders, develops legal playbooks, and leads AI-enabled workflow improvements while protecting confidentiality, privilege, and legal judgment.

Qualify inbound partner and prospect leads, conduct discovery conversations, assess business fit, route opportunities to appropriate business development or sales teams, and manage handoffs. Maintain CRM data hygiene, prioritize follow-up, resolve cases promptly, and use workflow tools to improve response times and prospect engagement. The role requires learning and communicating fintech, payments, blockchain, and digital asset concepts while collaborating with cross-functional teams.