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Manages inbound partner and customer leads, responds within service-level agreements, conducts initial outreach, gathers qualification information, maintains accurate CRM records, routes leads to business development or sales teammates, and supports pipeline data hygiene. The role also uses CRM and AI-enabled tools for follow-up and prioritization and assists with qualified partner onboarding and activation.

Manages multiple global regulatory and licensing programs from market-entry planning through approval. Builds plans, sequences dependencies, assigns owners, tracks risks, coordinates Legal, Compliance, Finance, Product, Engineering, and other teams, and prepares executive steering updates. Establishes scalable program standards, reporting metrics, and AI-enabled workflows while supporting policy activities and procurement. Requires regulatory or compliance experience in financial services, fintech, or another regulated industry, strong communication, discretion, and the ability to lead through influence.

Supports Circle’s investor relations function by managing analyst and investor relationships, maintaining valuation and consensus models, preparing earnings and public company communications, coordinating earnings logistics, and improving IR reporting infrastructure. The role translates financial, operational, strategic, and industry developments into clear investor messaging while collaborating with finance, legal, communications, strategy, marketing, and product teams.

Design, build, and maintain blockchain and payments infrastructure; develop scalable microservices and secure RESTful APIs to transfer value across blockchain and banking protocols; integrate with banks and fintech; own system design, testing, deployment, and troubleshooting; ensure reliability, code quality, and strong test coverage while collaborating with product and engineering teams.

Own end-to-end revenue and partnership accounting, including month- and quarter-end close, reconciliations, journal entries, subledger reviews, variance analysis, revenue recognition, incentive accounting, disclosures, controls, and audit support. Apply ASC 606 and US GAAP to complex arrangements while partnering with commercial, legal, tax, and data teams. Design AI and automation solutions using ChatGPT and Gemini to improve efficiency, quality, governance, and auditability.

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.

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.

Build responsive Web3 applications, web SDKs, developer tools, reusable frontend components, and internal Customer Success tools. Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to create scalable, accessible user experiences. Contribute to code and design reviews, automated testing, continuous delivery, coding standards, and AI-assisted development practices.

Lead Circle’s Global Risk Management AI transformation by redesigning processes around intelligent agents, building reusable AI capabilities, applying responsible AI controls, and driving initiatives from vision through delivery and adoption. Partner with risk, compliance, engineering, and enterprise AI teams; manage roadmaps, dependencies, reporting, executive updates, and measurable outcomes while ensuring AI solutions remain safe, explainable, auditable, and human-supervised.

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.