Senior Director Product, Onboarding, Compliance & Risk
$265,000–$332,500 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Lead the strategy and execution for Circle's onboarding, compliance, and risk platform, owning the end-to-end product vision for internal infrastructure and externally facing capabilities. Set the multi-year roadmap for KYC/KYB, entity screening, and monitoring systems, translating regulatory obligations into scalable, automated product services and APIs. Build and lead a high-performing product team while partnering deeply with Compliance, Legal, Risk, and Operations to drive execution. Establish metrics and controls for onboarding conversion, false-positive rates, and risk coverage, representing the domain to executives, regulators, and enterprise partners. This senior leadership role influences company-level investment decisions within a global fintech environment focused on digital assets and programmable blockchain infrastructure.
Required Qualifications
- Extensive product leadership experience, including building and leading product teams, in compliance, risk, identity, onboarding, or trust & safety domains at a fintech, payments, banking, or financial infrastructure company
- Deep, working understanding of the regulatory landscape — KYC/KYB, AML/CFT, sanctions/OWL screening, transaction monitoring, and the operational workflows that support them
- Proven ability to deliver both internal platform infrastructure and externally facing, productized platform capabilities
- Track record of setting strategy for a portfolio and driving execution from vision through measurable outcomes across multiple teams
- Strong ability to lead through influence across technical, commercial, and regulatory stakeholders, up to and including the executive level
- Strategic and analytical mindset, using data to prioritize investment and quantify risk and impact
- Clear, concise executive communication and the judgment to navigate high-stakes, ambiguous decisions
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in crypto, stablecoins, digital assets, or regulated financial infrastructure
- Exposure to AI/automation applied to compliance, risk decisioning, or case management
- Experience operating a platform used by external enterprise partners and developers
- Familiarity operating across multiple regulatory jurisdictions
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