Principal Product Manager, Onboarding
Circle
- Location
- San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Employment
- Full Time
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Principal
- Posted
- Sep 11, 2026
Skills
About this role
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. Learn more at circle.com . 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 : 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. What you’ll be part of: 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. 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 responsible for As a Principal Product Manager at Circle, you will own the strategy and execution of our customer onboarding platform, ensuring it scales to support new products, markets, and global regulatory requirements. You will act as a cross-functional leader, partnering with compliance, risk, legal, engineering, and business stakeholders to align priorities and deliver solutions that balance regulatory rigor with customer experience. By combining product vision, data-driven insights, and deep compliance expertise, you will enable Circle to expand efficiently into new markets, reduce risk, and uphold the highest standards of trust and integrity. What you’ll work on Define and own the product strategy and roadmap for the Circle onboarding platform, with an emphasis on automating onboarding workflows and reduced time-to-activate for new customers. Partner with compliance, legal, risk, engineering, and product teams to design systems that balance regulatory rigor with seamless customer experiences. Identify and resolve process gaps, bottlenecks, and inefficiencies that impact onboarding speed, scalability, and compliance outcomes during onboarding. Translate regulatory requirements and business needs into clear product requirements, insights, and user stories for engineering execution. Represent onboarding and platform priorities across senior forums, influencing strategy and securing alignment for high-impact initiatives. Build and maintain documentation that clearly explains the design, functionality, and dependencies of onboarding systems and tools. Define, monitor, and report on platform