Lead Analyst, Third Party Security

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.

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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.

As Lead, Third Party Security, you will be a key member of Circle’s Security team, responsible for advancing how we assess and manage security risk across our global ecosystem of partners, vendors, and other third parties. You will lead complex security assessments while building automation, AI-enabled tooling, and intelligence-driven workflows that make our third party security program faster, smarter, and more scalable.

Working across Security Engineering, Legal, Procurement, and business teams, you will help embed security into third party decision-making and evolve the program from manual, point-in-time reviews toward proactive, continuous risk management.

• Lead complex technical security assessments of partners, vendors, and third party integrations, translating findings into pragmatic, risk-based recommendations.
• Evolve Circle’s third party security assessment program from document-centric reviews toward a dynamic, scalable, and continuously adaptive capability.
• Design and build AI-enabled tooling and automation for evidence analysis, risk identification, monitoring, scoring, and assessment workflows.
• Establish proactive monitoring approaches that identify and prioritize emerging security risks across Circle’s third party ecosystem.
• Partner with Security Engineering, Legal, Procurement, and business teams to define and apply security requirements throughout third party onboarding and ongoing oversight.
• Communicate material third party security risks, control gaps, and recommendations clearly to technical stakeholders, business partners, and senior leaders.
• Identify opportunities to improve third party security methodologies, standards, tooling, and processes while increasing assessment quality and reducing manual effort.

• 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…