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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: Circle is the issuer of USDC — the world's most widely used regulated dollar stablecoin — and is building the foundational infrastructure for an open global financial system. We're at an inflection point: USDC is moving from crypto-native rails to mainstream enterprise and sovereign payment flows, and we're structuring the inorganic strategy to match. This Senior Director role sits at the center of that motion. You'll own working with our product and business colleagues to deeply understand the landscape and positioning to then evaluate, select, and lead the right deals — that means originating, evaluating, structuring, and closing acquisitions, strategic investments, and JVs that directly compound Circle's network position across payments, stablecoins, and institutional financial infrastructure. What you’ll work on: Deal Origination & Coverage. Maintaining a high-signal, always-on pipeline of acquisition targets, investment opportunities, and strategic partnership candidates — sourced from both your own network, collaboration with Circle colleagues, and inbound flow. Staying genuinely plugged into what's happening in Bay Area fintech, payments, and AI — founders, fund managers, regulators, and operators — and translate those conversations into actionable strategic intelligence and deal flow for Circle leadership. Running proactive build-vs-buy-vs-partner analyses grounded in Circle's strategic pillars, in particular Digital Assets and the emerging AI/agentic commerce stack. End-to-End Deal Execution. Leading the full deal lifecycle: initial evaluation → diligence → structuring → negotiation → close → integration. Coordinating and aligning cross-functional stakeholders (Legal, Finance, Product, Compliance, Engineering) through structured decision frameworks — you're the one keeping the train on the rails. Writing crisp, recommendation-forward analysis, alignment, investment memos, and board materials that distill complex strategic trade-offs into clear risk and decision asks. Structuring transactions that account for Circle's specific regulatory positioning, USDC liquidity dynamics, and multi-jurisdictional requirements. Strategic Intelligence & Organizational Alignment. Developing a synthesized, current view of the competitive landscape: who the relevant players are, where they're headed, and what it means for Circle's inorganic priorities. Translating market signals into organizational alignment — helping Circle leadership understand where and how to engage. Mentoring and raise the bar for the broader CDV team on deal quality, process discipline, and strategic framing. What you’ll bring to Circle: Core Requirements: 13+ years in corporate development, investment banking, growth equity, or strategic finance. You've led transactions end-to-end, not just supported them. Deep, active network in fintech, payments, and/or crypto — with genuine relationships at the operator, founder, and fund level in the Bay Area. The kind of person who gets calls before a deal is public. Exceptional written and verbal communication. You can write a tight, decisive memo and present it credibly to a CEO or board. Strong quantitative instincts — you build and stress-test financial models yourself, and you know where the bodies are buried in a cap table or income statement. Familiarity with generative AI models (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) and prompt development. Preferred Requirements: Experience in crypto, stablecoins, digital assets, or regulated payments infrastructure — either as a practitioner or from deep coverage. Track record closing deals in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where the deal thesis is still being written. Familiarity with the AI ecosystem — both as an AI practitioner and someone who's in the room when AI infrastructure, fintech, and enterprise software deals are being discussed. Experience working in or advising companies through regulatory complexity (FinCEN, OCC, international money transmission licensing). Prior corporate development experience at a fintech, crypto-native firm, or large-cap tech company. Bachelor’s degree required with an Economics, Finance, Business, Technology or related discipline preferred. Experience/familiarity with Slack, Apple MacOS and GSuite. 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: $245,000 - $307,500. 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 for support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs. #LI-Remote

Corporate Development & Ventures, Senior Director

San Francisco

As a Distinguished Engineer at Circle, you will drive the long-term technical direction of Circle’s platform and core systems, shaping architectures that scale across products, teams, and regulatory environments. You will lead complex, cross-cutting engineering initiatives that span multiple organizations, influencing architectural decisions well beyond a single team. Acting as a trusted technical authority, you will set a high bar for system reliability, performance, security, and developer experience while mentoring senior engineers and contributing to Circle’s engineering standards, culture, and technical strategy.

Distinguished Software Engineer

About Lead BankLead is a banking infrastructure platform trusted by the most innovative companies to power complex financial products. We enable fintechs to offer compliant, programmable services like payments, lending, and digital assets at scale. Banking has moved beyond traditional institutions and is now embedded directly into everyday experiences, meaning companies need modern infrastructure that is safe, secure, and operationally sound.Today, Lead is one of the only API-first, developer-focused partner banks with the financial, regulatory, and legal expertise required to help fintechs succeed. We operate offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, and New York City, and an FDIC-insured bank in Kansas City.Engineering Team at LeadThe Engineering team builds and maintains the technology that powers Lead's modern banking platform. Partnering with the Product, Finance, and Compliance teams, they architect secure, scalable financial systems that power money movement, credit and lending, card issuing, and account products for fintechs. Success requires technical excellence, a passion for solving complex infrastructure challenges, and the ability to collaborate effectively with a diverse set of stakeholders. The team is made up of ambitious builders and pragmatic problem solvers who are genuinely excited to see their work reach millions of end users across the globe.Role Description:This candidate will design, build and maintain large scale backend systems with a focus on performance, reliability and scalability. They will work closely with product managers and key stakeholders across the company to implement new features that address both product goals and customer needs. Candidates will prioritize effectively, develop systems from the ground up, navigate ambiguous problem domains, grow the team via mentorship and leadership and have a consistent track record of high performance and delivery.This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties. Team members will also perform all other duties assigned based on business needs.Basic Qualifications:<ul><li>7+ years of experience and a proven track record of shipping successful projects</li><li>You are passionate about building large scale systems in a cloud native environment (preferably AWS)</li><li>You have a strong command of at least one language (preferably Go and/or Java)</li><li>Demonstrated experience in working on large scale systems, developing and maintaining a high quality code base, and consistently delivering challenging projects on schedule with high quality</li><li>Demonstrated leadership skills and the ability to mentor and guide junior engineers</li><li>Ability to collaborate/compromise to get to the best, most efficient outcome</li><li>Strong communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally to align stakeholders on the goals and deliverables</li><li>You are curious, have humility and are open to learning </li></ul>Preferred Qualifications:<ul><li>Fintech experience is a plus</li><li>Ability to perform in a fluid environment with high autonomy</li></ul>What we offer: <ul><li>At Lead, we design our benefits to support company culture and <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BpDk5yNqa19IZCp8JbxKUd3ndBLVx44Jcg2DNi2KTeQ/edit" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" target="_blank">principles</a>, to foster an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to create the conditions for our team to give their best in both work and life</li><li>Competitive compensation, including opportunities for equity grants, based on experience, geographic location, and role</li><li>Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401k Matching, and other wellness benefits, including FSA, HSA and HRA</li><li>Paid parental leave</li><li>Flexible vacation policy, including PTO and paid holidays</li><li>A fun and challenging team environment in a dynamic industry with ample opportunities for career growth </li></ul>*Lead Bank is proud to have an inclusive culture committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity in all employment decisions regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, veteran status or any other legally protected status.*Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.*Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.*Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. Pay is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on geographical market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. These ranges may be modified in the future.Zone 1: $190,000 - $210,000 (SF/Bay Area, NYC)#LI #engineering #softwareengineerjobs #hybrid #LI-AG1

Software Engineer III

BitGo (NYSE: BTGO) is the digital asset infrastructure company delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, stablecoins, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since 2013, BitGo has focused on accelerating the transition of the financial system to a digital asset economy. BitGo maintains a global presence and multiple regulated entities, including BitGo Bank & Trust, National Association, the first federally chartered digital asset trust bank owned by a publicly traded company. Today, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, financial institutions, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of investors worldwide. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.bitgo.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" target="_blank">www.bitgo.com</a>.<h4>This role will require being full-time onsite at our Palo Alto office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.</h4><h3>Why this role exists</h3>BitGo's product is the foundation of the crypto industry globally. Our products and services are used by a breadth of client types worldwide: exchanges, banks, fintechs, asset managers, protocols, corporates, and governments. Much of the industry's infrastructure ultimately runs on or intersects with our platform. Delivery at that scale, across that many client types and jurisdictions, is executed by single-threaded PM owners. The individual workstreams are owned. What is not owned is the connective tissue between them: delivery operating rhythm, cross-team dependencies, regulatory submission pipelines, audit-driven remediation programs, etc that cut across product, engineering, compliance, legal, and finance.You will join as the first program manager for R&D and build the Technical Program Management function from scratch within your first year. This is not a process-improvement role. It is an execution-risk role at a public company where missed delivery on regulated commitments has audit, examiner, and investor consequences.<h3>What you will own</h3>Timely and predictable delivery of product. This is the mandate everything else serves. You own delivery integrity across the product portfolio: dates that mean something, cross-team and cross-entity programs (acquisition integrations, legal-entity restructurings, partner and vendor migrations) executed end-to-end, and early escalation the moment a plan and a commitment diverge. When BitGo says something ships, it ships.Building trust between product and our regulatory, compliance, legal, finance, and audit partners. Run the programs where product delivery and control exposure intersect: new-product regulatory review pipelines with fixed examiner deadlines, remediation of audit findings where the fix is a product build, and delivery against commitments made to regulators. These partner teams need to trust that product's plans are real and product needs to trust that review clocks are predictable; you are the person who makes both true, and who forces conflicts between remediation timelines and exposure windows into explicit decisions rather than letting them ride.Portfolio dependency and capacity integrity. Maintain the single source of truth for where resources are allocated, which programs must land when, and what is at risk. Surface contradictions, such as committed goals with unstaffed critical-path dependencies, duplicate ownership, or cross-team dependencies that live in nobody's plan, before they surface as quarter-end misses. Build a credible picture of keep-the-lights-on load so real capacity is known, not guessed.Portfolio dependency and capacity integrity. Maintain the single source of truth for where resources are allocated, which programs must land when, and what is at risk. Surface contradictions — committed goals with unstaffed critical-path dependencies, duplicate ownership, cross-team dependencies that live in nobody's plan — before they surface as quarter-end misses. Build a credible picture of keep-the-lights-on load so real capacity is known, not guessed.The product operating rhythm. Run the execution-review cadence for the product org: initiative status that is current and honest, launch readiness that commercial can sell against, and a working blocker-escalation path with SLAs. You make status cheap to produce and impossible to fudge.The TPM team. You start as the first program manager for R&D, hands-on, running the highest-exposure programs yourself, and build out the function within a year, hiring 1–2 TPMs against proven need. Set the bar for what program management means here: outcome-accountable, technically fluent, and light-touch on teams that are already delivering.<h3>What success looks like in the first two quarters</h3><ul><li>Every regulated-delivery program has a dated plan reconciled against its external deadline, with gaps escalated in writing. There should be no compliance commitment tracked in a spreadsheet nobody owns.</li><li>Committed goals and staffing are reconciled: zero commitments with unstaffed critical-path dependencies that leadership hasn't explicitly accepted.</li><li>One integration or entity program demonstrably run end-to-end through your operating model.</li><li>Product leads report the coordination overhead went down, not up. If the org experiences TPM as a reporting tax, the function has failed regardless of the dashboards.</li></ul><h3>Who you will partner with</h3><ul><li>Product managers, who keep outcome accountability and decide what to build. You take the cross-team coordination load off their plate and bring escalation muscle when a blocker sits in another org.</li><li>Engineering leadership, who own technical decisions, estimates, and delivery. You provide program-level sequencing and a single dependency view across teams, operating by partnership rather than positional authority.</li><li>Compliance, legal, and risk, who own regulatory judgment. You build the delivery machine around that judgment — submission pipelines, review-clock tracking, and remediation plans mapped to the audit calendar.</li><li>Commercial leadership, who own revenue and client commitments. You give them launch dates they can sell against and a real intake path when deal-driven commitments need to enter the roadmap.</li><li>Finance and audit, for whom you keep control-remediation milestones honest against the audit calendar, with slippage escalated the week it happens.</li></ul><h3>What we're looking for</h3><ul><li>8+ years in technical program management, with 3+ leading TPM teams or functions, ideally including founding one.</li><li>Delivery leadership in a regulated financial environment: you have run programs with examiner deadlines, audit findings, SOX-adjacent controls, or material-weakness remediation, and you know how public-company audit exposure changes program management.</li><li>Technically credible with platform engineering: you can read an architecture discussion, pressure-test an estimate, and hold your own on sequencing conversations with senior engineers without pretending to be one.</li><li>Demonstrated experience with at least one of: M&A integration, legal-entity restructuring, or large multi-party partner migrations.</li><li>Operates through influence in organizations where authority is split across reporting lines. You get things done with people who don't report to you and don't want another meeting.</li><li>Writing-first operator: your default artifacts are documents and dependency maps, not status meetings.</li><li>Crypto/digital-asset domain experience is a plus, not a requirement. Regulated-fintech delivery scar tissue matters more.</li></ul><h3>What will make you fail here</h3><ul><li>Treating this as a process-rollout role. The org is allergic to ceremony and the CEO is hands-on; value has to show up as delivered programs, fast.</li><li>Needing positional authority to operate. Engineering does not report into product; you will coordinate across that line daily.</li></ul><h3>Why Join BitGo?</h3>Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want risks to be part of the team that changes the world's financial markets.Here are some of the benefits* of working at BitGo:<ul><li>Competitive base salary, bonus and stock options</li><li>100% company paid health insurance for employee, partner and dependents</li><li>Up to 4% 401k company match</li><li>Paid parental leave, Paid vacation</li><li>Free custom lunches, dinners and snacks </li><li>Computer equipment and workplace furniture to suit your needs</li><li>Great colleagues and inspiring startup environment</li></ul>Cryptocurrencies are the most disruptive change the financial services industry has seen in years. Join us and you’ll be able to look back and say you were part of the team that transformed investing.Pay Transparency Notice: Depending upon your leveling the compensation for this role averages between $200,000 - $230,000 USD base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus and the benefits outlined above are also a part of this role's package.

Director, Technical Program Management

Who we are: Nitra's mission is to build a more efficient healthcare system and the technology that makes it possible.  Our goal is to provide an ecosystem of fintech and software solutions that help doctors better manage their practices, so they can have time back to focus on what matters to them most.
We operate with urgency, intensity, and ambition. The bar is high because the opportunity is massive. We expect excellence, ownership, and intellectual rigor from every team member. We move fast, make bold decisions, and hold ourselves accountable to results. At the same time, we believe great companies are built on trust and respect. Every voice matters. Every contribution counts. When we win, we win together.
We are scaling rapidly and on a clear trajectory toward becoming a unicorn this year — and beyond. Our growth is not accidental; it’s the result of disciplined execution, relentless focus, and a team that refuses to settle. We are building a category-defining company, and we’re looking for people who want to do the most meaningful work of their careers.
If you want comfort, this isn’t the place.
If you want impact, ownership, and the chance to help build a generational fintech company, welcome. Nitra was created by unicorn founders who have successfully scaled to thousands of customers and exited $1B+ public offerings. They are joined by an ambitious and experienced team from American Express, Citi, PayPal, Capsule, Plaid, Bloomberg, Meta, Facebook, and Mastercard. The team is backed by some of the world’s leading VCs (Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, etc.) and is supported by an expert group of advisors including the cofounders of Square and Xendit, executives from Intuit, former Governors, White House senior staffers, and a co-founder of CityMD.
Nitra maintains a hybrid work policy, with team members working from the office four days per week and Wednesdays designated as a work-from-home day.
We're looking for:
A VP of Product who has done this before — taken a healthcare product from zero and scaled it into something that matters. This is not a role for someone who has optimized an existing product at a large company. We need a builder: someone who has sat with clinical operators, understood their pain, and turned that understanding into product that ships, retains, and grows. You will own the product vision and roadmap across Nitra's AI-native platform, work hand-in-hand with a distributed engineering and design team, and set the standard for how great product gets built here.<h3>Your responsibilities will include:</h3><ul><li>Owning Nitra's product vision, strategy, and roadmap across all verticals — Finance, Procurement, Patient Management, AI HR, and Marketplace</li><li>Leading and developing a team of product managers, setting a high bar for product thinking, execution, and customer obsession</li><li>Working closely with co-founders and executive leadership to align product strategy with business priorities and fundraising milestones</li><li>Partnering daily with a distributed engineering and product design team — comfortable leading cross-timezone collaboration and maintaining high output across a global team</li><li>Driving discovery and validation with healthcare customers — clinics, practice administrators, and clinical operators — to ensure the product reflects real workflow needs</li><li>Defining and owning key product metrics including activation, retention, NRR, and feature adoption across the platform</li><li>Setting the bar for how Nitra ships — sprint processes, PRDs, roadmap communication, and cross-functional alignment with Sales, Marketing, and Operations</li><li>Translating AI capabilities into product features that are clinically relevant, operationally sound, and commercially differentiated</li><li>Recruiting and developing product management talent as the organization scales</li></ul><h3>You have:</h3><ul><li>Experience scaling a product from scratch at a VC-backed health tech company — this is a hard requirement. You have built something in healthcare that did not exist before you arrived</li><li>Deep health tech domain knowledge — you understand how clinics, practices, or health systems operate, how they buy, and what makes them stay</li><li>Demonstrated experience at a high-growth company pre-Series C, where you operated without a full playbook and built one yourself</li><li>Proven track record of managing and developing a product team, with the ability to hire, coach, and hold a high bar</li><li>Comfort and experience working with overseas engineering and design teams — you know how to maintain product quality and team alignment across time zones and cultures</li><li>Strong command of the full product development lifecycle, from discovery through delivery and iteration</li><li>Experience working at the intersection of fintech and healthcare is a strong plus — understanding of payments, financial workflows, or compliance in a clinical setting</li></ul><h3>We offer: </h3><ul><li>Equity - Everyone at Nitra is an owner. When the company wins, you win.</li><li>Competitive Salary - You’re the best of the best, and your salary will reflect your experience and reward your contributions to Nitra.</li><li>Nitra maintains a hybrid work policy, with team members working from the office four days per week and Wednesdays designated as a work-from-home day.</li></ul>The base salary range for this full-time position is $225,000 – $350,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.
Nitra values diversity. We are committed to equal opportunities and creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. We welcome applicants regardless of ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, gender, race, religious beliefs, disability, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, genetic information, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Circle is seeking a Lead Product Manager, Token within the Arc product team to define and lead the exploration of utility token opportunities for the Arc ecosystem. This individual will help Circle shape the economic model, governance framework, and feature design of a potential native token on the Arc network.You will work cross-functionally with Product, Business, Engineering, Data, Treasury, Legal, and Policy teams as we explore potential token design mechanisms — from validator and staking models to community participation, incentive structures, and governance evolution.This role sits at the intersection of economics, onchain governance, and ecosystem design, and is central to Circle’s vision for a new financial internet.

Lead Product Manager, Token

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Executive Search Lead

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