Circle Internet Financial

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. Learn more at circle.com . What you'll be part of: 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. Under the direction of the Assistant General Counsel - Transactions, you will play an immediate and direct role in complex commercial transactional work, supporting our Enterprise Sales, Payments, and Ecosystem business segments globally as we offer new products and grow in new markets, including Circle's Arc network, a purpose-built Layer-1 blockchain for stablecoin finance. We are looking for someone who is highly proactive, accountable, team-oriented, capable of managing multiple competing priorities, and who is excited to join a lean team that executes on a variety of novel and complex legal issues. What you'll work on: - Be a trusted partner to Circle's Enterprise, Payments, and Ecosystem teams, working collaboratively and building strong lines of communication across global business teams, supporting enterprise sales, product partnerships and growth, and ecosystem business development functions globally, including commercial transactions in support of Arc. - Structure, negotiate, and draft complex fintech, payments, crypto, and tech transactions across global markets, addressing legal risk in business-centric ways with the goal of strengthening commercial partnerships and advancing revenue opportunities, including partner, validator, and ecosystem agreements supporting the Arc network. - Support the creation and expansion of contract templates and terms of use to reflect new and existing products and services, including Circle's stablecoin infrastructure, payments rails, Arc network integrations, and ecosystem partnerships. - Aid in the development and implementation of processes, procedures, and metrics (including efficient contracting workflows) to increase the overall effectiveness of legal services provided to global business teams. - Assist business leaders with contract interpretation and management as they execute deals with enterprise platforms, marketplaces, PSPs, and payments-native companies globally. - Remain current on developments in finance, payments, stablecoins, digital assets, and blockchain infrastructure, including Arc's role as a settlement layer for global finance, to provide sound, practical transactional advice across Circle's global go-to-market motion. What you'll bring to Circle: You are passionate about financial technology and the potential of cryptocurrency and blockchains - a team player with a sense of humor who enjoys both learning and mentoring. Commercially minded, you keep the business objective front and center and communicate complex ideas clearly, both verbally and in writing, in a way that allows clients to act on them. You thrive in evolving, fast-moving environments, manage multiple priorities with ease, and exercise sound judgment under pressure - equally comfortable working autonomously and collaborating as part of a team. You are obsessively organized, energetic, and deeply accountable, with a strong sense of ownership over your actions and decisions. Core Requirements: - 10+ years of hands-on legal experience in global commercial transactions, including in-house legal department and/or top-tier law firm experience. - Extensive experience drafting and negotiating complex fintech, financial services, and technology agreements, including enterprise platform, payments, and ecosystem partnership transactions. - Proven ability to support international business teams across multiple regions and markets, including willingness to participate in negotiation calls across global time zones. - Experience advising Enterprise, Payments, Ecosystem, and other cross-functional teams on strategic partnerships and complex commercial initiatives. - Strong understanding of legal and regulatory issues affecting payments, stablecoins, blockchain, digital assets, and technology product platforms; Americas and/or APAC exposure preferred. - Ability to identify and manage legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, and operational implications, and to quarterback deals across stakeholders to drive alignment. - Practical, business-oriented judgment with the ability to balance legal risk, commercial objectives, and Circle's strategic goals in time-sensitive or high-pressure situations. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to distill complex legal, regulatory, and technical issues into clear, actionable guidance. - Highly accountable, organized, collaborative, and comfortable working independently in a fast-moving, evolving environment while managing multiple projects simultaneously. - J.D. or foreign equivalent, active membership in at least one U.S. State Bar, at least three years of prior top-tier law firm experience, and comfort using tools such as Slack, MacOS, GSuite, ChatGPT, and other AI-enabled workflows. Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core. We consider a wide variety of elements when crafting our compensation ranges and total compensation packages. Starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs. Please note that compensation ranges may differ for candidates in other locations. Base Pay Range: $230,000 - $297,500 We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where we hire. Additionally, Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law. Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to accommodations@circle.com for support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs. #LI-Remote

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. Learn more at circle.com . What you'll be part of: 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. What you'll be responsible for: As a Staff Data Scientist at Circle, you'll work closely with business partners to better understand our products, building measurement frameworks for digital assets products, leveraging data to find opportunities in digital assets product offerings, and enabling better decision-making with data. In this role, you will partner with our Digital Assets team, which is responsible for growing our flagship products (USDC and USYC). Specifically, the team is growing USDC by expanding our banking partnerships, offering new products that increase the utility of USDC (such as our credit and foreign exchange offerings), and through the issuance of new assets via Circle's liquidity, multichain, and settlement infrastructure. This is an opportunity for the right data scientist to impact the operation of our most valuable products. We are a passionate team with a deeply analytical approach and your work will support our mission to be a world-class company driven by data. If you love going deep on problems across product and modeling, enjoy deriving insights, love to dig deep, have experience improving data products, and are motivated by impacting business, we want to hear from you. What you'll work on: - Perform strategic analysis, modeling, and research to identify new opportunities to improve our business. - Partner with the Digital Assets, Finance, Treasury, and Risk teams by translating the business needs to design and develop core tables, investigate product use, investigate how other Digital Assets products work onchain, and conduct research that will help us build the best-in-class products. - Build measurement frameworks to assess the success (or shortcomings) of the product portfolio and inform decision making - Create data visualizations to translate analytic and data science results for broad understanding across the business - Build scalable automation solutions using SQL, dashboards, and other tools to create leverage for yourself and the digital assets team - Occasionally share your results with larger audiences to educate them on the digital assets product and ecosystem You will aspire to our four core values: - Multistakeholder - you have dedication and commitment to our customers, shareholders, employees and families and local communities. - Mindful - you seek to be respectful, an active listener and to pay attention to detail. - Driven by Excellence - you are driven by our mission and our passion for customer success which means you relentlessly pursue excellence, that you do not tolerate mediocrity and you work intensely to achieve your goals. - High Integrity - you seek open and honest communication, and you hold yourself to very high moral and ethical standards. You reject manipulation, dishonesty and intolerance. What you'll bring to Circle: - 5+ years of experience in data science. - Proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language, such as R or Python, for data manipulation, analysis, and modeling. - Strong understanding of statistics and experience applying statistical methods to understand business outcomes and customer behavior. - Proven experience in planning and driving analytical and data science projects. - Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail. - Strong XFN collaboration skills and can work with and influence a diverse set of stakeholders. - Experience with blockchain data and finance data is preferred but not required. Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core. We consider a wide variety of elements when crafting our compensation ranges and total compensation packages. Starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs. Please note that compensation ranges may differ for candidates in other locations. Base Pay Range: $195,000 - $257,500 We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where we hire. Additionally, Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law. Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to accommodations@circle.com for support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs. #LI-Remote

Role Description As the Senior Director, Arc - Agentic Commerce Strategy & GTM, you will define and execute Circle's strategy for agentic commerce, helping establish USDC, Arc, and the Circle Agent Stack as the default financial infrastructure for AI agents. Working across Ecosystems, Product, Developer Relations, Engineering, and Commercial leadership, you will: - Identify the highest-value opportunities for agent-driven commerce. - Define the strategic roadmap for ecosystem adoption. - Architect partnership and growth programs. - Influence the product investments required to accelerate adoption. This is not a traditional business development role. Success in this position comes from defining ecosystem strategy closely with relationship owners and commercial teams to build a category-defining ecosystem rather than executing individual transactions. You will build and scale the agentic commerce ecosystem on Arc, Circle's own blockchain, making it the chain where AI-driven commerce settles by default. Your mandate is to deepen the surfaces that live on it: - A marketplace with real supply depth. - Broad external adoption of the Agent Stack. - Design-partner integrations and product capabilities that make Arc the natural home for agentic transactions. Working across a network of AI builders, model providers, inference platforms, enterprises, developers, and ecosystem partners, you'll turn that network into durable, defensible advantage for Circle. What success looks like Within your first 90 days, you will: - Develop and socialize a comprehensive agentic commerce ecosystem strategy aligned across Product, Ecosystems, Developer Relations, and executive leadership. - Identify priority demand channels, ecosystem partners, and platform integrations required to accelerate agentic USDC adoption. - Establish strong working relationships across Product, Engineering, Developer Relations, Partnerships, and Commercial teams. - Build alignment around ecosystem priorities, platform requirements, and partnership opportunities. - Establish operating rhythms and ownership models across internal stakeholders supporting the agentic commerce strategy. Within your first 6–12 months, you will: - Launch strategic ecosystem partnerships that drive measurable agentic transaction volume and usage of Circle Agent Stack products. - Expand adoption of Agent Wallets, Nanopayments, Agent Marketplace, and related infrastructure across priority ecosystem participants. - Influence product roadmap priorities that improve the competitiveness and adoption of Circle's agentic commerce infrastructure. - Create repeatable ecosystem growth motions, partnership frameworks, and adoption programs that scale beyond individual relationships. - Establish Circle as a leading platform for agent-driven commerce and payments. - Develop a clear strategic bridge between agentic commerce, autonomous finance, and future agent-driven capital markets activity. What you'll work on - Define and own the strategic roadmap for Arc's agentic commerce ecosystem, including channel prioritization, ecosystem design, platform adoption, and long-term growth strategy. - Build and scale adoption programs across venture ecosystems, AI startups, model providers, inference platforms, enterprises, and developer communities. - Design partnership structures, ecosystem incentives, commercial frameworks, and growth programs that accelerate agentic transaction volume and USDC adoption. - Partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to translate ecosystem needs into product priorities across Agent Wallets, Nanopayments, Agent Marketplace, Circle Skills, and Arc infrastructure. - Develop repeatable ecosystem motions including credits programs, reference architectures, default integrations, onboarding frameworks, and co-marketing initiatives. - Influence product strategy by bringing the voice of AI builders, model providers, enterprises, and ecosystem participants into roadmap decisions. - Monitor ecosystem performance, market dynamics, competitive developments, and emerging AI infrastructure trends to continuously strengthen Circle's market position. - Help shape the long-term convergence of agentic commerce, autonomous finance, and agent-driven capital markets activity across Arc. Qualifications - 12+ years of experience spanning platform partnerships, ecosystem development, product partnerships, developer platforms, strategy, business development, or related functions. - Demonstrated success creating and scaling new markets, categories, platforms, ecosystems, or infrastructure businesses. - Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and drive alignment across multiple organizations without direct authority. - Experience building platform adoption strategies, ecosystem growth initiatives, or marketplace businesses that drive measurable usage and engagement. - Strong product instincts with the ability to translate ecosystem requirements into platform capabilities and roadmap priorities. - Experience structuring complex commercial partnerships, business models, and ecosystem programs involving multiple stakeholders and long-term strategic outcomes. - Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, executive influence, and strategic problem-solving skills. - Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in highly ambiguous, rapidly evolving markets and turn emerging opportunities into scalable business outcomes. Preferred Requirements - Experience working with AI platforms, foundation model providers, inference infrastructure, agent frameworks, developer tooling, or AI application ecosystems. - Experience with payments, fintech infrastructure, stablecoins, digital assets, embedded finance, or internet-native financial systems. - Familiarity with agentic commerce, autonomous systems, programmable payments, machine-to-machine transactions, or AI-driven economic networks. - Experience building ecosystems around developer platforms, APIs, marketplaces, or usage-based infrastructure products. - Experience working with enterprise technology adoption, platform GTM, or emerging technology commercialization initiatives. Benefits - Base Pay Range: $245,000 - $307,500 - Circle is an equal opportunity employer. - We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. - Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law. - Accommodations available for interview process due to disability.

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. Learn more at circle.com . What you'll be part of: 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. What you'll be responsible for: We are looking for a Smart Contract Engineer to design, implement, test, and maintain production-grade smart contracts across multiple blockchain ecosystems. This role focuses primarily on EVM-based Solidity contracts and Solana programs written in Rust using the Anchor framework, while also building the backend services that power and integrate with those contracts. As a Smart Contracts Engineer, you'll be responsible for building secure and efficient smart contracts that power Circle's core protocols. You'll also contribute to the supporting backend services that enable transaction orchestration, indexing, and monitoring (70% smart contract development and 30% backend development). You will work closely with protocol, infrastructure, and security engineering teams to deliver high-assurance, auditable solutions that support scalable, blockchain-based services across ecosystems. What you'll work on: - Design and implement production-grade smart contracts across EVM and/or Solana ecosystems using Solidity and Rust - Develop backend services and integration layers that interface with deployed smart contracts and internal systems - Research and apply industry-standard design patterns and emerging best practices in smart contract and distributed systems engineering - Optimize smart contract performance, including gas efficiency, while enforcing strong security through secure architecture and defensive coding practices - Build and maintain transaction orchestration flows, event listeners, and indexing services that bridge on-chain and off-chain components - Test, deploy, and manage upgrades for smart contracts and backend services in production environments - Partner with security teams on audits, threat modeling, remediation, and production monitoring to ensure reliability and operational excellence What you'll bring to Circle: Core Requirements: - Proven experience designing and developing production-grade smart contracts in Solidity and/or Rust, with strong emphasis on security, gas optimization, and performance - Deep understanding of blockchain architecture, EIP standards, decentralized systems, and on-chain execution models - Strong knowledge of smart contract security principles and common vulnerability patterns (e.g., reentrancy, access control flaws, arithmetic errors) - Experience with smart contract development and testing frameworks such as Foundry, Hardhat, or Anchor - Working knowledge of backend development, particularly services that interact with blockchain networks (transaction submission, event processing, indexing) - Experience integrating smart contracts with backend systems and off-chain infrastructure - Experience designing and deploying production-grade, scalable cloud services in AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, or similar environments - Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work cross-functionally with product, infrastructure, and security teams Preferred Requirements: - Experience shipping or operating multi-chain or cross-chain smart contract systems, with familiarity in Web3 fintech or DeFi environments - Experience contributing to or auditing open-source smart contracts or blockchain protocols - Experience developing smart contracts for non-EVM chains Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core. We consider a wide variety of elements when crafting our compensation ranges and total compensation packages. Starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs. Please note that compensation ranges may differ for candidates in other locations. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where we hire. Additionally, Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law. Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to accommodations@circle.com for support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs. #LI-Remote

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. Learn more at circle.com . What you'll be part of: 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. What you'll be responsible for: The Circle Security Team works to protect Circle; our customers, clients, and partners; and the financial markets upon which we rely. As a member of this team, you'll lead projects and be responsible for key deliverables of the security program while collaborating across Circle teams. You will continue to learn and stay current in a fun and rapidly changing environment. Also note that this position will require you to perform on-call duties mainly during working hours to support security operations, and you will assist the team with the occasional night time and weekend incident. We would also like someone with a strong response background and some exposure to insider risk. What you'll work on: - Proactively identify and respond to emerging security threats. - Advance deployment of AI to SOC function. - Help manage core tooling, such as SIEM and Orchestration platforms. - Identify gaps in our infrastructure, and work with business partners to gain visibility through logging and detection. - Respond to incidents and collaborate across teams to investigate and resolve. - Develop detection techniques to identify anomalous behaviors and attacks across the environment. - Support broader security team projects such as threat modeling, vulnerability scanning, audits, and custom tool building. - Take on-call shifts. What you'll bring to Circle: - Strong ability to work collaboratively across teams during high-stress situations, which sometimes involves after hours work. - Ability to manage multiple competing priorities and use good judgment to establish order of priorities on the fly. - Self-motivated and creative problem-solver able to work independently with minimal guidance. - Experience/familiarity with Slack, Apple MacOS, and GSuite. We're looking for strong, impactful work experience, which typically includes: - 2+ years of experience in detection, response, or security engineering. - Experience working security incidents, especially those involving engineering. - Experience working in an AWS + EKS environment required. - Hands-on experience using AI tooling both to accelerate work and to address threats, coupled with a strong understanding of the organizational risks AI introduces and strategies to defend against them. - Knowledge of operating systems, file systems, and memory on MacOS. - Programming experience in Python, Golang, or similar programming languages. - Professional or hobbyist blockchain exposure is preferred. You are the right person if you: - View Security Detection & Response as a data and engineering problem. - Exude positivity. - Aren't afraid to share your ideas. - Meet problems head-on and view them as opportunities. - Are self-reliant and motivated. - Communicate fearlessly. Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core. We consider a wide variety of elements when crafting our compensation ranges and total compensation packages. Starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs. Please note that compensation ranges may differ for candidates in other locations. Base Pay Range: $122,500 - $165,000 We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where we hire. Additionally, Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law. Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to accommodations@circle.com for support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs. #LI-Remote

Role Description Under the direction of the Assistant General Counsel - Transactions, you will play an immediate and direct role in complex commercial transactional work, supporting our Enterprise Sales, Payments, and Ecosystem business segments globally as we offer new products and grow in new markets, including Circle's Arc network, a purpose-built Layer-1 blockchain for stablecoin finance. We are looking for someone who is highly proactive, accountable, team-oriented, capable of managing multiple competing priorities, and who is excited to join a lean team that executes on a variety of novel and complex legal issues. What you'll work on: - Be a trusted partner to Circle's Enterprise, Payments, and Ecosystem teams, working collaboratively and building strong lines of communication across global business teams, supporting enterprise sales, product partnerships and growth, and ecosystem business development functions globally, including commercial transactions in support of Arc. - Structure, negotiate, and draft complex fintech, payments, crypto, and tech transactions across global markets, addressing legal risk in business-centric ways with the goal of strengthening commercial partnerships and advancing revenue opportunities, including partner, validator, and ecosystem agreements supporting the Arc network. - Support the creation and expansion of contract templates and terms of use to reflect new and existing products and services, including Circle's stablecoin infrastructure, payments rails, Arc network integrations, and ecosystem partnerships. - Aid in the development and implementation of processes, procedures, and metrics (including efficient contracting workflows) to increase the overall effectiveness of legal services provided to global business teams. - Assist business leaders with contract interpretation and management as they execute deals with enterprise platforms, marketplaces, PSPs, and payments-native companies globally. - Remain current on developments in finance, payments, stablecoins, digital assets, and blockchain infrastructure, including Arc's role as a settlement layer for global finance, to provide sound, practical transactional advice across Circle's global go-to-market motion. Qualifications - You are passionate about financial technology and the potential of cryptocurrency and blockchains — a team player with a sense of humor who enjoys both learning and mentoring. - Commercially minded, you keep the business objective front and center and communicate complex ideas clearly, both verbally and in writing, in a way that allows clients to act on them. - You thrive in evolving, fast-moving environments, manage multiple priorities with ease, and exercise sound judgment under pressure — equally comfortable working autonomously and collaborating as part of a team. - You are obsessively organized, energetic, and deeply accountable, with a strong sense of ownership over your actions and decisions. Requirements - 10+ years of hands-on legal experience in global commercial transactions, including in-house legal department and/or top-tier law firm experience. - Extensive experience drafting and negotiating complex fintech, financial services, and technology agreements, including enterprise platform, payments, and ecosystem partnership transactions. - Proven ability to support international business teams across multiple regions and markets, including willingness to participate in negotiation calls across global time zones. - Experience advising Enterprise, Payments, Ecosystem, and other cross-functional teams on strategic partnerships and complex commercial initiatives. - Strong understanding of legal and regulatory issues affecting payments, stablecoins, blockchain, digital assets, and technology product platforms; Americas and/or APAC exposure preferred. - Ability to identify and manage legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, and operational implications, and to quarterback deals across stakeholders to drive alignment. - Practical, business-oriented judgment with the ability to balance legal risk, commercial objectives, and Circle’s strategic goals in time-sensitive or high-pressure situations. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to distill complex legal, regulatory, and technical issues into clear, actionable guidance. - Highly accountable, organized, collaborative, and comfortable working independently in a fast-moving, evolving environment while managing multiple projects simultaneously. - J.D. or foreign equivalent, active membership in at least one U.S. State Bar, at least three years of prior top-tier law firm experience, and comfort using tools such as Slack, MacOS, GSuite, ChatGPT, and other AI-enabled workflows. Benefits - Starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs. - Base Pay Range: $230,000 - $297,500 Company Description Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core. We consider a wide variety of elements when crafting our compensation ranges and total compensation packages. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where we hire. Additionally, Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law. Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to accommodations@circle.com for support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs.

Role Description As the Director, Arc - Capital Markets Strategy & GTM, you will define and execute Arc's capital markets ecosystem strategy, helping establish Arc as the leading blockchain network for institutional financial activity. - Work across Ecosystem Partnerships, Product, and Commercial leadership. - Identify high-value market opportunities. - Develop the strategic roadmap for the capital markets ecosystem. - Architect complex partnership and commercial structures. - Influence product investments required to unlock adoption. This is not a traditional business development role. Success in this position comes from: - Defining ecosystem strategy. - Influencing product direction. - Architecting partnerships. - Creating market adoption across the capital markets value chain. You will build and scale the capital markets ecosystem on Arc, creating a network of partners, use cases, and market participants that drive compounding on-chain activity and establish a durable competitive advantage in institutional finance. Qualifications - 12+ years of experience spanning management consulting, corporate strategy, product management, enterprise partnerships, business development, or related strategic functions. - Demonstrated success defining and executing strategy in highly ambiguous, zero-to-one, or emerging-market environments. - Proven ability to influence executive leaders and drive alignment across multiple organizations without direct authority. - Experience building new business lines, ecosystem strategies, marketplace models, platform businesses, or network-driven growth initiatives. - Deep experience structuring complex enterprise partnerships, commercial agreements, and strategic alliances involving significant value exchange. - Strong systems-thinking capabilities with the ability to map value chains, identify leverage points, and create scalable growth strategies. - Exceptional communication, executive presentation, and stakeholder management skills with experience engaging senior leaders both internally and externally. Requirements - Deep knowledge of capital markets infrastructure, including securities issuance, trading, settlement, custody, market structure, or institutional investing. - Experience with tokenization, digital assets, blockchain infrastructure, real-world assets, or emerging financial technologies. Benefits - Starting pay range: $212,500 - $272,500. - Consideration of a wide variety of elements when crafting compensation packages. Company Description Circle 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. - Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet. Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core.

Role Description As a Staff Data Scientist at Circle, you’ll work closely with business partners to better understand our products, building measurement frameworks for digital assets products, leveraging data to find opportunities in digital assets product offerings, and enabling better decision-making with data. In this role, you will partner with our Digital Assets team, which is responsible for growing our flagship products (USDC and USYC). Specifically, the team is growing USDC by: - Expanding our banking partnerships - Offering new products that increase the utility of USDC (such as our credit and foreign exchange offerings) - Issuing new assets via Circle’s liquidity, multichain, and settlement infrastructure This is an opportunity for the right data scientist to impact the operation of our most valuable products. We are a passionate team with a deeply analytical approach and your work will support our mission to be a world-class company driven by data. If you love going deep on problems across product and modeling, enjoy deriving insights, love to dig deep, have experience improving data products, and are motivated by impacting business, we want to hear from you. Qualifications - 5+ years of experience in data science - Proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language, such as R or Python, for data manipulation, analysis, and modeling - Strong understanding of statistics and experience applying statistical methods to understand business outcomes and customer behavior - Proven experience in planning and driving analytical and data science projects - Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail - Strong XFN collaboration skills and can work with and influence a diverse set of stakeholders - Experience with blockchain data and finance data is preferred but not required Requirements - Perform strategic analysis, modeling, and research to identify new opportunities to improve our business - Partner with the Digital Assets, Finance, Treasury, and Risk teams by translating the business needs to design and develop core tables - Investigate product use and how other Digital Assets products work on-chain - Conduct research that will help us build the best-in-class products - Build measurement frameworks to assess the success (or shortcomings) of the product portfolio and inform decision making - Create data visualizations to translate analytic and data science results for broad understanding across the business - Build scalable automation solutions using SQL, dashboards, and other tools to create leverage for yourself and the digital assets team - Occasionally share your results with larger audiences to educate them on the digital assets product and ecosystem Benefits - Starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs - Base Pay Range: $195,000 - $257,500 Company Description Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core. We consider a wide variety of elements when crafting our compensation ranges and total compensation packages. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where we hire. Additionally, Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law. Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to accommodations@circle.com for support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs.

Role Description The Circle Security Team works to protect Circle; our customers, clients, and partners; and the financial markets upon which we rely. As a member of this team, you’ll lead projects and be responsible for key deliverables of the security program while collaborating across Circle teams. You will continue to learn and stay current in a fun and rapidly changing environment. This position will require you to perform on-call duties mainly during working hours to support security operations, and you will assist the team with the occasional night time and weekend incident. We would also like someone with a strong response background and some exposure to insider risk. - Proactively identify and respond to emerging security threats. - Advance deployment of AI to SOC function. - Help manage core tooling, such as SIEM and Orchestration platforms. - Identify gaps in our infrastructure, and work with business partners to gain visibility through logging and detection. - Respond to incidents and collaborate across teams to investigate and resolve. - Develop detection techniques to identify anomalous behaviors and attacks across the environment. - Support broader security team projects such as threat modeling, vulnerability scanning, audits, and custom tool building. - Take on-call shifts. Qualifications - Strong ability to work collaboratively across teams during high-stress situations, which sometimes involves after hours work. - Ability to manage multiple competing priorities and use good judgment to establish order of priorities on the fly. - Self-motivated and creative problem-solver able to work independently with minimal guidance. - Experience/familiarity with Slack, Apple MacOS, and GSuite. - 2+ years of experience in detection, response, or security engineering. - Experience working security incidents, especially those involving engineering. - Experience working in an AWS + EKS environment required. - Hands-on experience using AI tooling both to accelerate work and to address threats, coupled with a strong understanding of the organizational risks AI introduces and strategies to defend against them. - Knowledge of operating systems, file systems, and memory on MacOS. - Programming experience in Python, Golang, or similar programming languages. - Professional or hobbyist blockchain exposure is preferred. Requirements - View Security Detection & Response as a data and engineering problem. - Exude positivity. - Aren't afraid to share your ideas. - Meet problems head-on and view them as opportunities. - Are self-reliant and motivated. - Communicate fearlessly. Benefits - Starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs. - Base Pay Range: $122,500 - $165,000 Company Description Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where we hire. Additionally, Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law. Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to accommodations@circle.com for support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs.

• Design and implement production-grade smart contracts across EVM and/or Solana ecosystems using Solidity and Rust • Develop backend services and integration layers that interface with deployed smart contracts and internal systems • Optimize smart contract performance, including gas efficiency, while enforcing strong security through secure architecture and defensive coding practices • Test, deploy, and manage upgrades for smart contracts and backend services in production environments