Jobs at Circle

Build and evaluate fraud models for onboarding, login, account changes, and money movement. Develop labels, features, sampling strategies, thresholds, and production monitoring to detect account takeover, scams, money mules, and identity fraud. Transition third-party risk models to in-house solutions, measure model performance and drift, collaborate with fraud, risk, operations, and compliance teams, and evaluate AI agent workflows for transaction review and fraud-ring analysis.

Investigate AML alerts, enhanced monitoring reviews, and potentially suspicious activity requiring SAR/STR filings. Conduct screening and adverse media checks, support law enforcement and banking partner requests, ensure regulatory compliance, and manage time-sensitive workflows. Analyze transaction data and blockchain activity, identify financial crime trends, improve detection models and typology coverage, and collaborate with policy, legal, compliance, data, and technology teams. The role may also provide training and feedback to transaction monitoring analysts.

Lead technology and integrated internal audits across financial, operational, and compliance controls. Responsibilities include risk assessment, audit scoping, interviews, control testing, documentation, deficiency analysis, remediation tracking, and collaboration with risk functions. The role also develops generative AI applications to improve audit workflows and testing efficiency, while enhancing audit methodologies and frameworks.

Design, build, and own scalable microservices and secure APIs that transfer value across blockchain and banking protocols. Extend in-house blockchain infrastructure, integrate with banks and cloud services, troubleshoot production issues, document system and testing procedures, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable payment experiences.

Leads a Payments engineering team building backend systems for financial institution onboarding, payment orchestration, ledgers, reconciliation, bank and PSP integrations, and bulk payment processing. Owns technical direction, delivery, reliability, security, financial correctness, incident response, and cross-functional roadmaps. Recruits, coaches, and manages engineers while supporting cross-border payments, stablecoin settlement, geographic expansion, and collaboration across US- and India-based teams.

Build and operate production data pipelines, models, and data products supporting finance, accounting, treasury, compliance, and regulatory reporting. Partner cross-functionally to define requirements, model on-chain and internal data, and ensure data reliability through reconciliation, quality checks, monitoring, and alerting. Use SQL, Python, cloud data warehouse, Airflow, dbt, and AI tooling. Mentor engineers, review technical work, document systems, and communicate data concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

Leads complex cross-functional commercial programs across APAC, including go-to-market initiatives, strategic client implementations, process improvements, internal communications, leadership coordination, reporting frameworks, and performance measurement. Partners with Commercial leadership and customer-facing teams to improve operational effectiveness, support scalable growth, align global stakeholders, and execute strategic priorities across international time zones.

Leads technical solutioning for Payments and Enterprise opportunities across EMEA, from discovery and architecture through implementation and post-sale expansion. Designs scalable solutions involving APIs, transaction flows, custody, and settlement; develops proofs of concept and validation frameworks; partners with sales, product, engineering, and client success teams; and provides market feedback to influence product strategy. Represents Circle at client engagements and industry events while supporting knowledge sharing and global solutions engineering initiatives.

Provide hands-on IT administration and white-glove support for Circle’s New York office and remote workforce. Maintain macOS devices, MDM, networks, security systems, conference rooms, and audio-visual equipment. Manage incidents, business continuity, disaster recovery, and security collaboration. Support executives, employees, events, and visiting customers while improving troubleshooting, documentation, and IT operations.

Leads Circle’s policy programs, strategic partnerships, executive positioning, and high-level events. Responsibilities include managing Davos, UNGA, and World Bank-IMF programming; coordinating relationships with think tanks, NGOs, regulators, and civil society institutions; securing speaking opportunities; and overseeing VIP events. The role requires complex project management, senior stakeholder collaboration, operational coordination, strong judgment, and up to 50% domestic and international travel.

Drive adoption of Circle’s AI and blockchain platforms by building prototypes, agentic applications, sample apps, technical content, demos, workshops, and open-source projects. Partner with Product and Engineering on APIs, SDKs, documentation, and developer experience, while engaging AI developers and open-source communities. Use developer feedback and adoption metrics to improve platform resources and support product launches.

Leads conceptual creative development for brand campaigns, launches, partnerships, and physical and digital experiences. Simplifies blockchain, payments, and financial infrastructure into compelling narratives; interprets briefs strategically; and prototypes ideas using AI, code, and design tools. Partners with designers, copywriters, engineers, and creative leaders to deliver polished executions while maintaining high standards for originality and craft.

Manages Circle’s APAC strategic events, executive speaking program, and regional partnerships with industry associations, universities, think tanks, regulators, and financial institutions. Responsibilities include event production, speaker preparation, messaging alignment, partnership management, vendor contracts, budgets, post-event content, executive support, and cross-time-zone collaboration. The role requires communications or partnerships experience, strong executive judgment, generative AI fluency, and up to 30% travel.

Leads creative production from concept through delivery across film, digital, social, experiential, immersive, and emerging formats. Partners with creative leaders, agencies, production companies, and stakeholders to determine production approaches, manage budgets and timelines, solve complex execution challenges, and maintain exceptional creative quality. Explores and operationalizes AI-enabled production techniques, evaluates emerging tools, and shares production expertise across the Creative & Design team.

Temporary six-month Talent Acquisition Operations Associate responsible for high-volume and complex interview scheduling, resolving conflicts, supporting candidates and interview teams, covering coordinator duties, using AI tools to improve workflows, and assisting with recruiting projects. The role requires at least one year of talent acquisition coordination experience, strong communication and organizational skills, professionalism under pressure, and proficiency with Google Suite, Slack, and macOS.

Investigate complex AML cases, review transaction-monitoring alerts, determine SAR/STR filing decisions, and communicate findings to regulators, law enforcement, and stakeholders. The role also supports audits, improves AML detection models and typology coverage, analyzes transactional data, identifies financial crime trends, and provides analyst training. Candidates need strong blockchain, AML regulations, investigative writing, and blockchain forensic tool experience, with AI and SQL capabilities preferred or advantageous.

Own the strategy and roadmap for Circle’s core payments engine, including payment creation, routing, processing, settlement, APIs, protocols, observability, and operational tooling. Improve reliability, latency, success rates, scalability, and efficiency across global payment networks. Lead complex cross-functional decisions involving Engineering, Compliance, Operations, Business Development, and commercial teams while expanding corridors, rails, use cases, and partner capabilities. Establish product frameworks and metrics, mentor product managers, and serve as the payment infrastructure subject matter expert.

Leads advanced analytics, reporting, scalable data models, dashboards, and data pipelines supporting Business and Marketing teams. Partners with senior stakeholders and AI Engineering to implement AI and machine learning workflows, predictive insights, and automation. Develops documentation, drives analytics engineering best practices, and mentors team members. Requires strong SQL, Python, APIs, data modeling, stakeholder communication, project leadership, and blockchain expertise.

Leads the engineering team building Circle’s customer onboarding and lifecycle management platform. Responsibilities include developing scalable onboarding automation, customer lifecycle capabilities, partner-facing APIs and SDKs, compliance tools, and product-specific verification workflows. The role owns architecture, reliability, security, operational excellence, cross-functional delivery, hiring, coaching, and development of senior and staff engineers across risk, compliance, fraud, product, and engineering teams.

Leads strategic partner management across the Americas, driving adoption, launches, activation, growth, and long-term value for Circle’s payments and digital asset products. Builds executive relationships with major platforms, financial institutions, corporates, and commerce partners. Develops success and launch plans, coordinates onboarding and cross-functional execution, manages escalations, forecasts go-live dates, and provides consultative regional growth direction.