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Salary: USD 140,000 - 185,000 / annual
Circle is a leading internet financial platform company building infrastructure for digital assets, payments, and blockchain. The company operates USDC (the world's largest regulated stablecoin), Circle Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain.
As Lead Analyst, Third Party Security, you will be a key member of Circle's Security team, responsible for advancing how the company assesses and manages security risk across its global ecosystem of partners, vendors, and third parties. You will lead complex security assessments while building automation, AI-enabled tooling, and intelligence-driven workflows that make the third-party security program faster, smarter, and more scalable.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading complex technical security assessments of partners, vendors, and third-party integrations, translating findings into pragmatic, risk-based recommendations
- Evolving Circle's third-party security assessment program from document-centric reviews toward a dynamic, scalable, and continuously adaptive capability
- Designing and building AI-enabled tooling and automation for evidence analysis, risk identification, monitoring, scoring, and assessment workflows
- Establishing proactive monitoring approaches that identify and prioritize emerging security risks across the third-party ecosystem
- Partnering with Security Engineering, Legal, Procurement, and business teams to define and apply security requirements throughout third-party onboarding and ongoing oversight
- Communicating material third-party security risks, control gaps, and recommendations clearly to technical stakeholders, business partners, and senior leaders
- Identifying opportunities to improve third-party security methodologies, standards, tooling, and processes while increasing assessment quality and reducing manual effort
You will work in a flexible, values-driven environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder. Circle emphasizes High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence.
REQUIREMENTS:
Core Requirements:
- 7+ years of relevant experience in cybersecurity, technology risk, or compliance, including meaningful experience with third-party or vendor security assessments
- Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex security assessments and evaluate control effectiveness beyond questionnaire or compliance-based reviews
- Technical depth across areas such as cloud security, API security, network architecture, identity and access management, and cryptography
- Hands-on experience using AI, GenAI, automation, or internally developed tooling to improve security, risk, or compliance workflows
- Experience modernizing security, risk, or compliance programs through automation, improved methodologies, or process redesign
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex security risks into clear recommendations for technical and non-technical audiences
Preferred Requirements:
- Experience in financial services, fintech, digital assets, or another highly regulated industry
- Familiarity with third-party risk and security frameworks or standards such as DORA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or relevant regulatory guidance
- Familiarity with blockchain and digital asset technologies, including crypto-native vendors, wallets, smart contracts, or decentralized infrastructure
