Senior Product Manager, CPN Payments Engine

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. 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.

### Responsibilities - Own the Payments Engine roadmap: Define and execute the product roadmap for payment creation, processing, and settlement. - Drive payment performance: Own key engine health metrics — success rate, latency (TTFT, end-to-end), RFI rate, failure root causes. - Shape API and protocol capabilities: Define requirements for the OFI Payments API and BFI quoting/settlement protocols. - Build engine observability and control: Drive investments in payment monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling. - Partner across the network: Work closely with BFI partners, OFI integrations, Compliance, and Operations.

### Qualifications - 5+ years in Product Management at a payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure company. - Experience owning platform or infrastructure products — APIs, processing pipelines, settlement systems, or developer-facing capabilities. - Strong analytical skills — comfortable diagnosing payment failures, interpreting latency distributions, and building data-driven cases for prioritization; SQL or equivalent data fluency. - Track record of shipping reliability or performance improvements with measurable impact. - Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering, Operations, Compliance, and BD/Sales. - Ability to operate at both the strategic and tactical level. - Clear, structured communication skills. - Experience in payments networks, settlement systems, or financial infrastructure. - Familiarity with two-sided network dynamics and compliance-forward products. - Experience with API product management in an enterprise or B2B context.

Circle is a global financial technology company that issues stablecoins (USDC and EURC) and provides a full-stack platform for digital payments and blockchain infrastructure. The company enables businesses and financial institutions to integrate digital currencies and public blockchains for payments, commerce, and financial applications worldwide.