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Lead the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for Circle’s identity and access platform. Manage and develop backend and frontend engineers, guide architectural changes, review designs and code, troubleshoot production issues, participate in incident response, and partner with Security, Product, Risk, and engineering teams. The role focuses on authentication, authorization, customer and agent identity, secure delegation, platform reliability, migrations, and operational readiness.

Own Circle’s Wallets product strategy and roadmap across custodial, non-custodial, institutional, developer, agentic, and cold-storage models. Define secure wallet capabilities, key management, permissions, policies, custody, and transaction infrastructure. Lead customer discovery, cross-functional strategy, platform investments, chain expansion, and adoption measurement while balancing security, compliance, reliability, cost, and growth.

Serve as the strategic finance partner to the Product organization, evaluating new product lines, building business cases, unit economics models, pricing frameworks, forecasts, and scenario analyses. Advise product and executive leadership on investment allocation, market opportunities, and financial performance. Establish dashboards, reporting, and scalable Product Finance processes while presenting clear financial narratives to senior stakeholders.

Qualify inbound partner and prospect leads, conduct discovery conversations, assess business fit, route opportunities to appropriate business development or sales teams, and manage handoffs. Maintain CRM data hygiene, prioritize follow-up, resolve cases promptly, and use workflow tools to improve response times and prospect engagement. The role requires learning and communicating fintech, payments, blockchain, and digital asset concepts while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

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.

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.

Lead payments-focused data science work: build foundational datasets, metrics, and scalable analytics; analyze customer and transaction behavior (including onchain data); conduct strategic analyses to identify product and revenue opportunities; build reporting, dashboards, and automation; and influence product and business strategy through data storytelling to senior stakeholders.

Designs, builds, and operates secure, highly available Kubernetes platforms and cloud infrastructure. Develops Terraform modules, backend services, automation, and CI/CD workflows while improving reliability, scalability, observability, security, and cost efficiency. Partners with engineering and product teams on distributed systems, leads incident response and postmortems, establishes SLOs and disaster-recovery practices, and mentors team members.

Lead long-term technical direction and architecture for Circle's core platform. Drive cross-team initiatives, mentor senior engineers, improve observability, reliability, and performance, and address platform-wide technical debt while influencing engineering standards and developer experience across the company.