Principal Product Manager, Core Network

Circle·Bengaluru·Onsite

Group Product ManagerFintech

Experience

10+ years

Employment

Full Time

Work mode

Onsite

Level

Group Product Manager

Location

Bengaluru

Posted

2 days ago

About the role

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

You will own the product strategy and evolution of the CPN Payments Engine — the core infrastructure that powers payment creation, routing, settlement, and lifecycle management across the network. You’ll define the long-term vision and roadmap for the engine, identifying opportunities to expand its capabilities while improving reliability, performance, and scale.

What you'll bring

Core requirements
10+ years of relevant experience, including significant Product Management experience building payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure products.
Deep experience owning platform or infrastructure products such as APIs, payment processing systems, settlement platforms, routing systems, or developer-facing capabilities.
Demonstrated ability to define product strategy and lead highly complex initiatives spanning multiple engineering and cross-functional teams.
Strong analytical and technical fluency, with the ability to use payment performance, reliability, and operational data to identify systemic issues and guide product investment decisions.
Track record of delivering measurable improvements to large-scale systems, including reliability, success rates, latency, scalability, operational efficiency, or customer outcomes.
Ability to evaluate complex technical and business trade-offs and translate them into clear product decisions, priorities, and long-term platform investments.
Strong cross-functional influence and communication skills, including the ability to build alignment with senior leaders and stakeholders across Engineering, Compliance, Operations, and commercial teams.
Deep knowledge of payment networks, cross-border payments, settlement systems, correspondent banking, stablecoins, or blockchain-based financial infrastructure.
Experience with enterprise API products, two-sided networks, and compliance-forward payment systems, including concepts such as SLAs, payment lifecycle events, exception handling, sanctions screening, RFIs, or the Travel Rule.
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.