Principal Product Manager

What you’ll be responsible for:

Circle is looking for a Principal Product Manager to own usdc.com and work cross-functionally to lead key initiatives driving traffic and engagement to our newly launched usdc.com website. This role focuses on increasing traffic, engagement, and awareness among our end users. You will work cross-functionally to lead key initiatives, ensuring that our website becomes a central hub for user interaction and all things related to USDC.  

As a key strategic leader, you will partner deeply with the respective stakeholders across the company to understand the market dynamics, global and local trends, customer needs, regulatory landscape, and high priority requirements in order to develop a growth strategy and execute on respective initiatives. 

You will achieve this by establishing a product vision, gaining alignment amongst other key stakeholders cross-functionally, and own ruthless prioritization of efforts for highest impact.

We are seeking someone with a demonstrated history of successfully launching tech products for consumer audience 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 building in FinTech space, dealing with the requirements of many different counterparties, ability to assess multiple competing needs and defining product strategy and demonstrated agility and ability to adapt to an ever-changing landscape.

What you’ll work on:

• Owning product vision, feature set, and roadmap usdc.com, driving user engagement and awareness. You will conceive, build and maintain products, platforms and features that deliver on our end users’ needs to learn about how to access USDC and which use cases to use. 
• Collaborating with various teams across Circle, understanding end user pain points and discussing new product ideas, communicating product vision, strategy and roadmaps, and gaining alignment as well as unblocking progress.
• Establish a clear product vision, gain cross-functional alignment, and prioritize initiatives for maximum impact. 
• Understand market dynamics, customer needs, and global/local trends to inform product decisions and strategy.
• Identifying risks to the business and preparing mitigation plans using tools, alerts and dashboards to surface them to internal stakeholders. 
• Managing multiple parallel projects and iterations alongside engineering, and ensuring the delivery of feature releases.

You will aspire to our four core values:

• Multistakeholder - you have dedication and commitment to our customers, shareholders, employees and families and local communities.
• Mindful - you seek to be respectful, an active listener and to pay attention to detail.  
• Driven by Excellence - you are driven by our mission and our passion for customer success which means you relentlessly pursue excellence, that you do not tolerate mediocrity and you work intensely to achieve your goals. 
• High Integrity - you seek open and honest communication, and you hold yourself to very high moral and ethical standards.  You reject manipulation, dishonesty and intolerance.

What you’ll bring to Circle:

Principal Product Manager

• You have more than 10 years of product management experience, having launched and scaled products that drove meaningful user adoption and growth.
• You have owned product strategy for complex products. You have experience identifying and managing risks associated with products you own.
• You have mentored other product managers in the past. You have demonstrated experience influencing partners and executives in order to achieve results.
• You have previous domain expertise in managing and growing consumer-facing online products and their websites, including feature development, user experience optimization, and traffic generation.
• You are detail-oriented, highly analytical and comfortable digging into data. You have expertise in using data & analytics to track website performance, identify trends, and inform product decisions.
• You have strong experience in working closely with design and engineering teams to deliver best outcomes for your product that meet user experience (UX) design principles and practices.
• You have experience in working closely with Marketing teams and integrating digital marketing efforts (e.g., SEO, SEM, social media) with website strategies to drive traffic and engagement for your products.
• You have led several complex product initiatives from beginning to end. You have successfully maintained and grown products that generated material revenue.
• You are a fantastic communicator both verbally and in writing. You are used to effectively interfacing with customers and executives, as well as architects and developers. You can influence partners and get to consensus.
• You’re able to work effectively in a fully remote environment with teams spanning multiple time-zones. You have experience/familiarity with Slack, Apple MacOS and GSuite.
• You are tremendously excited by the prospect of building fintech products in web3.

Additional Information:

• This position is eligible for day-one PERM sponsorship for qualified candidates.

Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core. We consider a wide variety of elements when crafting our compensation ranges and total compensation packages.

Starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs. Please note that compensation ranges may differ for candidates in other locations.

Base Pay Range: $187,500 - $240,000

Annual Bonus Target: 17.5%

Also Included: Equity & Benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)). Circle has a discretionary vacation policy. We also provide 10 days of paid sick leave per year and 11 paid holidays per year in the U.S.