Remote Senior Director Compliance and Risk

Summary

The job is for a senior product leader at Circle, a financial technology company, to own and drive the company's risk and compliance platform product strategy and implementation. The role requires 15+ years of experience in implementing KYC, AML, or Sanctions technologies, leadership skills, and familiarity with RegTech or Fintech companies.

Requirements

• 15+ years of relevant experience in implementing KYC, AML, or Sanctions technologies in scaled companies, including leading programs for Fintech or crypto businesses. Compliance policy, product or engineering experience in either banking, consulting, or cryptocurrency required
• 10+ years in executive, managerial or people leadership capacities, or equivalent entrepreneurship roles

Responsibilities

• Own the Compliance and Risk Platform Product Strategy and associated product roadmap
• Hire and grow a global team of product managers for Compliance and Risk Platform
• Lead the evolution of our existing tools and systems, making incremental improvements along the way while developing the solutions to reimagine those systems
• Build deep relationships and create strategic alliances to establish trust with key stakeholders across legal, risk, compliance, engineering, product etc. to accelerate delivery of risk and compliance initiatives
• Proactively identify process gaps, roadblocks, bottlenecks, and inefficiencies that will negatively impact risk and compliance platform efforts and mitigate them
• Partner with all key stakeholders to define the product requirements, develop insights and write detailed user stories to deliver features and functionality to scale Circle's Risk and compliance functions
• Represent risk and compliance needs at the highest levels across the organization and be capable of advocating for and/or defending decisions associated with the defined strategy and execution plans
• Own the development and maintenance of all documentation that details the composition and inner workings of the Compliance Platform. Establish and maintain transparent processes to gather, assess and prioritize functional needs from all risk and compliance stakeholders
• Participate in all aspects of the development life cycle, from definition through deployment and support to ensure that timely advice and risk and compliance consultation is provided as necessary
• Communicate product status, metrics, goals and performance clearly to internal stakeholders throughout the organization, including impacted teams
• Develop, monitor and report on a suite of KPIs / KRIs for various internal reviews including Executive Leadership and Board-level reporting
• Present to regulators, examiners and auditors performing reviews of the Compliance program

Benefits

• Base Pay Range: $242,500 - $302,500
• Annual Bonus Target: 25%
• Equity & Benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))
• Day-one PERM sponsorship for qualified candidates