[Hiring] Regulatory and Licensing Program Manager @Circle

Role Description

Circle is looking for a Regulatory and Licensing Program Manager to drive our licensing applications from filing strategy through to approval. Every new license, registration, or charter is a multi-month program on a regulatory clock, and it pulls in work from teams across the company. You will have early visibility into sensitive business and regulatory decisions. Handling that information with discretion is a core part of the role.

This is a program management role that requires real regulatory depth. You will run several applications at once and set the standard every future one follows. Regional policy and legal leaders own the strategy and the regulator relationship; you make the program move. In practice that means:

• Deciding what happens in what order.
• Putting a name against every task.
• Getting the executive steering committee what it needs before it meets.

We use AI heavily on this team and expect you to do the same. It is how a portfolio this wide stays manageable.

You will see every market Circle is considering before the decision is made, and you will be in the room with the people making it. How this function works is largely yours to define, and you will do it as an individual contributor leading by influence.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of program or project management experience.
• At least 4 years supporting regulatory, licensing, legal or compliance work at a financial services, fintech or similarly regulated company.
• Direct involvement in at least one licence, registration, or charter application.
• Experience delivering complex, multi-month programs with many dependencies.
• Strong written communication skills.
• Flexibility on working hours to support licensing and regulatory activity across time zones.

Requirements

• The ability to hold senior colleagues to commitments you have no authority to enforce.
• Daily, practical use of AI in your own work.
• A track record of building with AI.
• The discipline to follow a requirement all the way to close.
• Familiarity with generative AI models (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) and prompt development.

Benefits

• Base Pay Range: $140,000 - $170,000.
• Inclusive financial future with transparency at our core.