Principal Product Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take charge of Circle’s Wallets product strategy and roadmap by prioritizing customer segments, use cases, wallet models, and shared platform capabilities.

• Conduct customer discovery and validation with potential clients, design partners, and key customers.

• Convert customer insights into informed product decisions and quantifiable adoption outcomes.

• Establish the strategy for institutional custody and secure wallet functionalities, encompassing hot, warm, and cold storage, key management, signing, approvals, policy controls, and multi-party authorization.

• Develop Circle’s agent-ready wallet strategy, which includes defined permissions, programmable policies, contract signing, smart accounts, EIP-7702, gas efficiency, and protections for autonomous transaction execution.

• Collaborate with teams across engineering, security, cryptography, compliance, risk, legal, custody, payments, and commercial sectors.

• Simplify complex technical and regulatory challenges into scalable product solutions.

• Propel platform investments that enhance chain expansion, minimize the cost and complexity of introducing new wallet use cases, and boost reliability across EVM, non-EVM, hard-fork, and protocol-upgrade workflows.

• Define and oversee the success metrics for Wallets, focusing on customer and developer adoption, reliability, launch readiness, chain expansion speed, cost efficiency, operational leverage, and risk mitigation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of relevant product management experience, particularly in crypto, fintech, payments, custody, blockchain infrastructure, developer platforms, or security-sensitive financial products.

• Extensive knowledge of digital wallets, including custodial and non-custodial models, key management, transaction signing, smart accounts or account abstraction, recovery, gas abstraction, and wallet security.

• Proven track record in defining strategies and driving adoption for highly technical platform products.

• Strong technical knowledge of blockchain infrastructure, including both EVM and non-EVM ecosystems, transaction lifecycles, smart contracts, protocol upgrades, APIs, and SDKs.

• Solid understanding of AI and agentic systems, including autonomous agents that hold and transact value using scoped permissions, programmable policies, tool integrations, and safeguards.

• Demonstrated capability to influence executives and senior cross-functional stakeholders while navigating critical trade-offs between customer experience, security, compliance, reliability, cost, and growth.

• Familiarity with stablecoins, digital asset custody, programmable wallets, MPC, HSMs, TEEs, passkeys, EIP-7702, account abstraction, or smart contract wallet systems (preferred).

• Experience in developing API-first or developer products where documentation, SDKs, sandbox environments, reliability, and integration quality are vital for customer adoption (preferred).

• Background in regulated financial services, crypto, payments, or banking environments, with experience collaborating across security, compliance, risk, legal, and audit functions (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment.

• Equal opportunity employment.

• Interview accommodations and assistance for candidates with disabilities.