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Lead exploration and design of a native token and governance for the Arc network: define tokenomics, model incentives and staking, operationalize onchain/offchain governance, collaborate cross-functionally, and engage the community.

Design, build, and operate the core data warehouse, ingestion, orchestration, and cataloging platform. Develop batch and streaming pipelines, ensure data quality, governance, observability, and provide ML data platform capabilities. Lead architecture, improve platform reliability and performance, and collaborate with product, engineering, data science, security, and compliance teams.

Lead day-to-day Product Risk Management operations: identify, assess, mitigate, and report product risks; define processes, standards, and tools; run risk assessments and executive reporting; partner with product, engineering, legal, compliance and auditors to embed ERM and ensure post-launch monitoring and issue remediation.

Lead regional growth strategy for USDC by building partnerships with exchanges and OTC desks, delivering regionally compliant product initiatives, and creating AI-driven, automated growth platforms. Own experimentation frameworks, dashboards, and metrics to scale liquidity, adoption, and measurable share shift versus competing stablecoins through cross-functional execution and data-driven prioritization.

Lead and manage Circle's KYC team overseeing B2B onboarding, enhanced due diligence, and periodic reviews. Ensure SLA adherence, audit readiness, and high-quality risk memos. Drive team development, implement AI-driven workflow improvements, and partner cross-functionally with Product and Engineering while monitoring regulatory changes in the digital asset ecosystem.

Lead Product Designer for Circle's Identity Team to design platform-level systems like Authentication, Roles & Permissions, and Billing. Audit fragmented workflows, create cohesive, scalable UI systems, and craft high-fidelity visual design while balancing security flows (MFA, SSO) and developer/designer consumable components.

Own long-term product strategy and roadmap for Circle's digital assets and capital markets platform. Lead cross-functional initiatives, manage regulatory and market risks, define forecasting and liquidity models, influence executives, and mentor product managers to scale global stablecoin and capital access infrastructure.

Design, implement, and scale finance systems (primarily Oracle Cloud Fusion) to automate and streamline core finance processes, enable international expansion, drive AI-enabled automation, manage solution design and testing, and support finance teams for internal and SOX audits.

Lead and enhance Circle's IT SOX compliance program by evaluating ITGCs, automated and IT-dependent controls, documenting SOX-ready materials, coordinating testing and remediations, liaising with IT, Security, Finance and auditors, and driving control design for system implementations and new product launches.

Lead and execute Circle National Trusts internal audit program for fiduciary and bank-related audits. Test controls across treasury, trust operations, and technology risk. Partner with senior leadership, risk owners, and examiners; prepare regulatory reporting; perform annual risk assessments and support broader internal audit work across Circle.