Senior Director of Compliance and Risk Platform, Circle
$242.5-302.5k
+Equity. Annual Bonus Target: 25%
macOS
GSuite
Slack
Expert level
Austin
More information about location
Global crypto finance company
Open for applications
Global crypto finance company
1001+ employees
FintechB2BCryptocurrencyBankingPaymentsDeep TechFinancial ServicesSaaSBlockchainWeb 3.0
Open for applications
$242.5-302.5k
+Equity. Annual Bonus Target: 25%
macOS
GSuite
Slack
Expert level
Austin
More information about location
1001+ employees
FintechB2BCryptocurrencyBankingPaymentsDeep TechFinancial ServicesSaaSBlockchainWeb 3.0
Company mission
To raise global economic prosperity through the frictionless exchange of value.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking someone with a demonstrated history of successfully owning and managing large, complex program areas and engaging with cross-functional teams, and numerous stakeholders, directly and through influence
- The ideal candidate has extensive experience managing risk and compliance tooling, systems and platform needs, ability to assess multiple competing needs and define product strategy and demonstrated agility to adapt to an ever-changing landscape
- 15+ years of relevant experience in implementing KYC, AML, or Sanctions technologies in scaled companies, including leading programs for Fintech or crypto businesses. Compliance policy, product or engineering experience in either banking, consulting, or cryptocurrency required
- 10+ years in executive, managerial or people leadership capacities, or equivalent entrepreneurship roles
- Experience in RegTech or Fintech companies is preferred. You are a creative product mind, an avid problem solver and a highly collaborative team member
- You have experience designing risk and compliance operational workflows and deeply understand the expected rigor required in our operations
- You are a self-starter and fast-moving when it comes to putting plans into motion - you don't need to work from a script
- Highly quantitative, analytical, and business minded with a data-driven approach to decision making. Proven experience with regulatory exams and presenting to examiners
- Ability to lead, influence, and motivate individuals and teams. Skilled in holding people accountable and establishing high standards of excellence
- Executive presence with an ability to influence and work hands-on with other cross-functional team leaders, such as lawyers, engineers, product managers, data analysts, operations analysts in improving compliance processes and systems
- Experience leading diverse teams in a complex, matrixed organization. Deep experience and knowledge of traditional money laundering and terrorist financing typologies
- Experience/familiarity with Slack, Apple MacOS and GSuite
What the job involves
- Circle is looking for a senior product leader to own and drive the company's entire risk and compliance platform product strategy and implementation
- This role will oversee the design and development of a risk and compliance platform product and infrastructure to support the global risk and compliance programs and strategic direction of Circle
- As a key strategic leader and fundamental stakeholder for the Risk and Compliance teams you will partner deeply with the respective functions to understand the regulatory landscape, operational needs and high priority requirements in order to develop a long term strategy to deliver a platform that will facilitate greater efficiencies, support growing volumes and enable market expansion
- You will achieve this by establishing a risk and compliance platform product vision, gaining consensus amongst the business and your risk and compliance peers, and through ruthless prioritization of needs
- Own the Compliance and Risk Platform Product Strategy and associated product roadmap, including stakeholder coordination, business requirements development and prioritization assessment
- Hire and grow a global team of product managers for Compliance and Risk Platform
- Lead the evolution of our existing tools and systems, making incremental improvements along the way while developing the solutions to reimagine those systems
- Build deep relationships and create strategic alliances to establish trust with key stakeholders across legal, risk, compliance, engineering, product etc. to accelerate delivery of risk and compliance initiatives
- Proactively identify process gaps, roadblocks, bottlenecks, and inefficiencies that will negatively impact risk and compliance platform efforts and mitigate them
- Partner with all key stakeholders to define the product requirements, develop insights and write detailed user stories to deliver features and functionality to scale Circle's Risk and compliance functions
- Represent risk and compliance needs at the highest levels across the organization and be capable of advocating for and/or defending decisions associated with the defined strategy and execution plans
- Own the development and maintenance of all documentation that details the composition and inner workings of the Compliance Platform. Establish and maintain transparent processes to gather, assess and prioritize functional needs from all risk and compliance stakeholders
- Participate in all aspects of the development life cycle, from definition through deployment and support to ensure that timely advice and risk and compliance consultation is provided as necessary
- Communicate product status, metrics, goals and performance clearly to internal stakeholders throughout the organization, including impacted teams
- Develop, monitor and report on a suite of KPIs / KRIs for various internal reviews including Executive Leadership and Board-level reporting
- Present to regulators, examiners and auditors performing reviews of the Compliance program
Our take
Circle is a financial technology firm looking to enable businesses to harness the power of digital currencies and public blockchains for payments, commerce, and financial applications. The company’s USD Coin (USDC) has become the fastest growing, regulated, and fully reserved dollar digital currency.
The company is backed by the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, as well as crypto exchange company Coinbase, and has been proactively preparing for possible upcoming federal regulations. Regardless of the current crypto downturn, this means that Circle is still well-placed to see steady long-term growth.
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Top investors
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Apr 2022
$400m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
May 2021
$440m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- We offer flexible paid time off — so you can thrive at work, and at rest
- No matter where you live, we offer a market competitive suite of health benefits to help keep you and your loved ones safe
- Work Remotely: Do your best work from home. With a company laptop, stipend for business equipment, and access to WeWork locations, Circle remote jobs empower our employees to do their best work.
- All U.S. employees enjoy 401(k) benefits with company matching, and can become owners in Circle through our equity program
Company values
- Multistakeholder - We must organize, incentivize and measure ourselves against meeting the needs of all of our stakeholders
- Mindful - We seek to be present and aware, to be respectful, active listeners (with each other and with our customers alike), and pay attention to detail
- Driven by Excellence - We relentlessly pursue excellence, we do not tolerate mediocrity, we reward based on merit, and we work intensely to achieve our goals
- High Integrity - We seek open and honest communication, and hold ourselves to very high moral and ethical standards
Company HQ
South Boston Waterfront, Boston, MA
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Leadership
Jeremy Allaire
(CEO)Founder & former Chairman and CEO of Brightcove. Former Entrepreneur in Residence at General Catalyst Partners, CTO of Macromedia, and Co-Founder & former CTO of Allaire Corporation.
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