Principal Product Manager, Core Network

Circle

Principal Product Manager defining product strategy for CPN Payments Engine at Circle. Responsible for payment execution and driving improvements across systems and integrations.

Posted 5/2/2026full-timeBangalore • 🇮🇳 IndiaLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Ruby on RailsSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and drive the long-term product strategy for the CPN Payments Engine
Operate as the end-to-end owner of payment execution across corridors and rails
Shape how the system evolves to support scale, resilience, and new financial use cases
Set the vision for reliability, performance, and extensibility
Lead cross-functional efforts to translate that vision into measurable improvements in throughput, latency, and network success rates
Influence adjacent systems and partner integrations to ensure the Payments Engine operates as a cohesive, high-performing platform across the ecosystem

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of Product Management experience in payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure
Experience owning complex platform or infrastructure products such as payment engines, settlement systems, or distributed processing systems
Demonstrated ability to define and drive strategy for ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces with company-level implications
Strong analytical skills with the ability to diagnose systemic issues in payment flows and drive data-informed decisions; proficiency with SQL or equivalent
Track record of delivering step-function improvements in system reliability, performance, or scalability
Experience influencing architecture and working deeply with Engineering on trade-offs and system design
Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives across Engineering, Compliance, Operations, and external partners
Ability to operate seamlessly from strategic vision to hands-on execution, including writing detailed product and technical specifications
Clear and structured communicator, capable of aligning senior stakeholders and driving decision-making
Experience with global payments networks, settlement systems, or financial infrastructure (e.g., cross-border payments, correspondent banking, stablecoins) (preferred)
Deep understanding of two-sided network dynamics and marketplace liquidity challenges (preferred)
Experience building compliance-forward systems where regulatory requirements shape product and system design (preferred)
Expertise in API product management for enterprise or developer-facing platforms (preferred)
Familiarity with payment lifecycle events, failure taxonomy, and large-scale operational tooling for monitoring and exception handling (preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work environment
Remote work options

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Hard Skills & Tools

Product ManagementSQLAPI product managementsystem reliabilityperformance improvementsscalabilitypayment executionsystem designdata-informed decisionspayment lifecycle events

Soft Skills

analytical skillsclear communicationcross-functional leadershipstrategic visionhands-on executionstakeholder alignmentdecision-makinginfluenceproblem-solvingstructured communication