Senior Analyst, Network Onboarding

Circle; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Circle as a Senior Analyst, Network Onboarding, where you'll play a pivotal role in facilitating the onboarding of financial institutions. You'll ensure compliance and operational excellence in a dynamic financial technology environment, leveraging your expertise to support the growth of the Circle Payments Network.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in onboarding, compliance operations, or KYC/AML reviews.
• Detail-oriented with strong analytical skills.
• Effective communicator with cross-functional collaboration experience.

Responsibilities

• Support onboarding of financial institutions and ensure documentation requirements are met.
• Conduct thorough reviews to verify eligibility and risk indicators.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for streamlined onboarding.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Compliance Knowledge

Communication Skills

Job description

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Circle is a financial technology company at the epicenter of the emerging internet of money, where value can finally travel like other digital data — globally, nearly instantly and less expensively than legacy settlement systems. This ground-breaking new internet layer opens up previously unimaginable possibilities for payments, commerce and markets that can help raise global economic prosperity and enhance inclusion. Our infrastructure – including USDC, a blockchain-based dollar – helps businesses, institutions and developers harness these breakthroughs and capitalize on this major turning point in the evolution of money and technology.

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 and diverse work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

Circle is looking for a Senior Analyst, Network Onboarding, who will support the end-to-end onboarding of financial institutions and network participants, helping ensure operational excellence, risk awareness, and compliance throughout the process. You’ll play a critical role in reviewing onboarding documentation, validating information, identifying potential risks, and ensuring each new entity meets Circle’s standards for eligibility and trust. This role sits at the intersection of compliance, operations, and customer experience, enabling the secure, efficient, and scalable growth of the Circle Payments Network. You will operate in a dynamic, rapidly evolving environment where you will be instrumental in scaling a new global payment network from the ground up.

What You'll Work On

• Supporting the end-to-end onboarding of financial institutions and other network participants, ensuring documentation and eligibility requirements are met.
• Conducting thorough reviews to verify eligibility, business alignment, and risk indicators of network participants at onboarding and on an ongoing basis.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams including compliance, legal, security, product, and customer support to streamline onboarding workflows, eligibility validation and readiness milestones.
• Tracking and escalating high-risk attributes or discrepancies to appropriate stakeholders with clear, concise summaries.
• Monitoring industry trends related to onboarding risks, financial crime, or regulatory changes and suggest process improvements.
• Maintaining accurate and complete records of onboarding activities and proactively identifying opportunities to improve operational efficiency.
  
  

Core Requirements

What you’ll bring to Circle:

• 4+ years of experience in onboarding, compliance operations, or KYC/AML reviews in financial services or fintech.
• Proven experience in payments, such as card networks or remittance networks. Familiarity with onboarding and risk requirements for financial institutions, payment providers, or crypto entities.
• Detail-oriented with strong analytical skills and the ability to synthesize complex information clearly.
• Effective communicator with the ability to collaborate across teams and escalate issues when needed.
• Comfortable operating in a dynamic, remote-first, cross-functional environment.
• Familiarity with generative AI models (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) and prompt development.
  
  

Preferred Requirements

• Experience in crypto or blockchain-related onboarding or risk roles.
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks governing cross-border payments or digital assets.
• Certification such as CAMS, CFCS, or CFE.
  
  

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: $102,500 - 137,500

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Circle. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. 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 [e-mail] for support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

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