Principal Product Manager

Circle

. Own Circle’s Wallets product strategy and roadmap, prioritizing customer segments, use cases, wallet models, and shared platform capabilities .

Posted 10/13/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $197,500 - $240,833 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in product management for digital wallets, focusing on strategy, customer adoption, and technical fluency in blockchain infrastructure. Capable of translating complex regulatory and technical requirements into scalable product solutions while collaborating across multiple teams.

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Product Management ExperienceDigital Wallet ExpertiseBlockchain Infrastructure KnowledgeCross-Functional CollaborationRegulatory Compliance Experience

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Hard Skills

Digital WalletsKey ManagementTransaction SigningSmart ContractsAPIsSDKsCustodial ModelsNon-Custodial ModelsProgrammable PoliciesAccount Abstraction

Soft Skills

Influencing ExecutivesStakeholder ManagementCritical Tradeoff Decision-Making

Tools & Technologies

EVMNon-EVM EcosystemsMPCHSMsTEEsEIP-7702Autonomous Agents

Industry Keywords

CryptoFintechPaymentsCustodyBlockchainRegulated Financial ServicesDigital Asset Custody

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own Circle’s Wallets product strategy and roadmap, prioritizing customer segments, use cases, wallet models, and shared platform capabilities
Lead customer discovery and validation with prospective customers, design partners, and lighthouse customers
Translate customer insights into product decisions and measurable adoption outcomes
Define the strategy for institutional custody and secure wallet capabilities, including hot, warm, and cold storage, key management, signing, approvals, policy controls, and multi-party authorization
Shape Circle’s agent-ready wallet strategy, including scoped permissions, programmable policies, contract signing, smart accounts, EIP-7702, gas efficiency, and safeguards for autonomous transaction execution
Partner across engineering, security, cryptography, compliance, risk, legal, custody, payments, and commercial teams
Turn complex technical and regulatory constraints into scalable product solutions
Drive platform investments that accelerate chain expansion, reduce the cost and complexity of launching new wallet use cases, and improve reliability across EVM, non-EVM, hard-fork, and protocol-upgrade workflows
Define and own Wallets success measures across customer and developer adoption, reliability, launch readiness, chain expansion velocity, cost efficiency, operational leverage, and risk reduction

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of relevant product management experience, including significant experience with crypto, fintech, payments, custody, blockchain infrastructure, developer platforms, or security-sensitive financial products
Deep expertise in digital wallets, including custodial and non-custodial models, key management, transaction signing, smart accounts or account abstraction, recovery, gas abstraction, and wallet security
Proven success defining strategy and driving adoption for highly technical platform products
Strong technical fluency across blockchain infrastructure, including EVM and non-EVM ecosystems, transaction lifecycles, smart contracts, protocol upgrades, APIs, and SDKs
Strong understanding of AI and agentic systems, including autonomous agents holding and transacting value using scoped permissions, programmable policies, tool integrations, and safeguards
Demonstrated ability to influence executives and senior cross-functional stakeholders while making critical tradeoffs across customer experience, security, compliance, reliability, cost, and growth
Experience with stablecoins, digital asset custody, programmable wallets, MPC, HSMs, TEEs, passkeys, EIP-7702, account abstraction, or smart contract wallet systems (preferred)
Experience building API-first or developer products where documentation, SDKs, sandbox environments, reliability, and integration quality are critical to customer adoption (preferred)
Experience operating in regulated financial services, crypto, payments, or banking environments and partnering across security, compliance, risk, legal, and audit functions (preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work environment
Equal opportunity employment
Interview accommodations and assistance for candidates with disabilities