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Circle is seeking a Senior Director of Ecosystem Growth for South East Asia to drive market intelligence, brand presence, and stakeholder engagement across the region, focusing on fintech and crypto markets.
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. Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Circle to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation. 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.
Responsibilities
- Own Circle’s market intelligence, brand presence, and stakeholder engagement and ecosystem growth across South East Asia.
- Gather market intelligence and partner with the Circle Policy team to engage with regulatory and government stakeholders.
- Support Circle's compliant market presence.
- Work closely with Commercial, Business Development, Product, and partners with commercial activities and agreement execution.
- Identify potential market participants and ecosystem contacts.
- Respond to and document genuine inbound partnership inquiries.
- Partner closely with Commercial and Business Development teams to share market intelligence.
- Support compliant market engagement and regulatory outreach activities.
- Orchestrate cross-functional execution with Product, Solutions, Operations, Marketing, Policy, Legal, and Compliance.
- Track and report on market intelligence, regulatory developments, and stakeholder engagement activities.
Qualifications
- 13+ years experience in business development, growth, market expansion, or general management.
- Proven experience driving growth, revenue, or transaction volume in fintech, payments, crypto, or financial infrastructure businesses.
- Demonstrated ability to win market share and ecosystem growth.
- Strong commercial instincts with a bias toward action, execution, and measurable outcomes.
- Experience working cross-functionally with Sales, BD, Product, Policy, Legal, Compliance, and technical teams.
- Deep understanding of crypto markets, stablecoins, DeFi, payments, remittances, or institutional financial flows.
- Experience operating across multiple countries and navigating diverse market, regulatory, and ecosystem dynamics.
- Ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments.
- Strong executive presence and the ability to engage credibly with senior stakeholders.
- Familiarity with generative AI models (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.).
- Experience in high-growth fintech, blockchain, or payments companies operating in South East Asia.
- Track record of building repeatable operational frameworks and playbooks.
- Strong cultural fluency and experience leading diverse, distributed teams.
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced, high-ambiguity environments.