Principal Product Manager, Liquidity Growth

$187,500 - $240,000/Yr

Unclassified - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Principal

Remote - San Francisco, CA

About the position

Circle is seeking a Principal Product Manager to spearhead our liquidity growth initiatives across various platforms and venues globally, aimed at driving volume and market expansion. The Liquidity team is responsible for delivering the infrastructure that enables all of our stablecoin products to have instant, low-cost access worldwide. As a strategic leader, you will collaborate closely with stakeholders across the company to gain insights into market dynamics, global and local trends, customer needs, regulatory landscapes, and high-priority requirements. This understanding will be crucial in developing a comprehensive growth strategy and executing respective initiatives. In this role, you will establish a clear product vision, align cross-functional teams, and prioritize efforts to ensure the highest impact. You will be tasked with identifying new product opportunities based on market needs and trends, ensuring that these align with our strategic goals. We are looking for a candidate with a proven track record of successfully launching products in the capital markets space, driving liquidity and adoption of trading, managing large and complex program areas, and engaging with cross-functional teams and numerous stakeholders through direct influence. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in building and navigating institutional capital market programs, adeptly handling the requirements of various counterparties, and demonstrating agility in adapting to an ever-evolving landscape. Your responsibilities will include owning the product vision, feature set, and roadmap. You will conceive, build, and maintain products, platforms, and features that meet our customers' needs for accessing capital markets and lending facilities globally. Collaboration with various teams across Circle will be essential to understand customer and internal pain points, discuss new product ideas, communicate product vision, strategy, and roadmaps, and gain alignment while unblocking progress. You will also identify risks to the business and prepare mitigation plans using tools, alerts, and dashboards to surface them to internal stakeholders. Working closely with data science and analytics teams, you will build models to proactively identify opportunities and risks. You will collaborate with business teams and interact with partners to deeply understand their capabilities, translating their capital needs into business cases, feature themes, product requirements, and roadmaps. Managing multiple parallel projects and iterations alongside engineering will be crucial to ensure timely delivery of feature releases. Additionally, you will identify and prioritize product and process improvements that enhance our partners' success with our offerings. At Circle, we aspire to uphold our four core values: Multistakeholder commitment, mindfulness, a drive for excellence, and high integrity. We seek individuals who are dedicated to our customers, shareholders, employees, and local communities, who pay attention to detail, and who are relentless in pursuing excellence while maintaining high moral and ethical standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead liquidity growth initiatives across various platforms and venues globally.
• Establish a product vision and gain alignment across cross-functional teams.
• Identify new product opportunities based on market needs and trends.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand market dynamics and customer needs.
• Develop and execute growth strategies and respective initiatives.
• Manage multiple parallel projects and iterations alongside engineering teams.
• Identify risks to the business and prepare mitigation plans.
• Work closely with data science/analytics to build models for identifying opportunities and risks.
• Translate partners' capital needs into business cases, feature themes, and product requirements.
• Prioritize product and process improvements to enhance partner success.

Requirements

• More than 10 years of product management experience.
• Experience in evolving product portfolios that attract customer adoption and generate revenue.
• Proven track record of owning product strategy for complex commercial products.
• Experience in identifying and managing risks associated with products.
• Mentoring experience with other product managers.
• Demonstrated ability to influence partners and executives to achieve results.
• Domain expertise in capital markets, lending, treasury management, or regulated financial services.
• Technical experience in building products for capital markets teams on a global scale.
• Detail-oriented and highly analytical with a comfort in data analysis.
• Experience leading complex product initiatives from beginning to end.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with Slack, Apple MacOS, and GSuite.
• Experience working in a fully remote environment with teams across multiple time zones.

Benefits

• Base Pay Range: $187,500 - $240,000
• Annual Bonus Target: 17.5%
• Equity & Benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)
• Discretionary vacation policy
• 10 days of paid sick leave per year
• 11 paid holidays per year in the U.S.