Lead Product Manager, Connectivity
Ripple provides crypto and blockchain solutions for enterprises, enabling global financial entities to move, manage, and tokenize value. They focus on improving existing financial systems through partnerships and regulatory compliance, with products used in over 50 countries.
About Ripple
Ripple is an enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions company that aims to enable the world to move value as seamlessly as information moves today. Their mission is to build breakthrough crypto solutions for a world without economic borders. Using blockchain technology, Ripple facilitates global financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers to move, manage, and tokenize value, thereby unlocking greater economic opportunity. The company works within existing financial systems to improve them, partnering with customers to streamline infrastructure and collaborating with regulators to ensure solutions are secure and compliant. Ripple's products are in commercial use by hundreds of customers across more than 50 countries, helping them expand into new markets, access liquidity solutions, and generate crypto-enabled revenue streams. They also support developers by providing tools for building on the XRP Ledger, a fast and sustainable public blockchain. Ripple’s payments, custody and stablecoin solutions empower financial institutions to integrate blockchain and digital assets into their business in a simple, secure, compliant way—all in one place. From instant payments to asset tokenization, blockchain and crypto are happening right now, across the world. It’s happening to suppliers, to retailers, to exchanges, to currencies, to sectors, to industries, to markets, and to global businesses. And it’s happening with Ripple.
Skills
About the Role
You will own and drive the end-to-end connectivity strategy across bank channels (including proprietary reporting & payments APIs), money market fund platforms, ERP ecosystems, and other critical Office of the CFO integration points. You will lead a dedicated multi-functional engineering team, partnering closely with engineering leads to build, scale, and maintain the connectivity platform that enables real-time data exchange across banks, ERPs, fund portals, and digital asset networks. You will evangelize an API-first approach, manage documentation for internal and external partners, own the lifecycle of partner SDKs and third-party connectors, expand the global banking network, and resolve conflicts between engineering, security, and banking partners to improve uptime, reduce latency, and automate error handling.
Requirements
- 10+ years in product management with focus on API Platforms, Integration iPaaS, or Fintech Infrastructure
- Experience leading dedicated multi-functional engineering teams and driving alignment across multiple partners
- Deep understanding of systems and APIs including ability to interpret bank specifications (ISO 20022, NACHA, SWIFT gpi)
- Experience building for a developer audience including API documentation
- Ability to prioritize infrastructure work and unify fragmented banking and fintech landscapes
Responsibilities
- Lead the Connectivity Team (Pod) as the definitive product owner for a newly formed engineering team
- Drive the core mandate of global connectivity coverage balancing build-vs-integrate decisions
- Evangelize an API-first approach and manage developer-facing documentation and materials
- Manage partner SDK lifecycles and third-party connector interoperability with Enterprise ERPs and Money Market Fund portals
- Expand and optimize the global banking network using standard APIs and proprietary channels
- Resolve conflicts and drive alignment between Engineering, Security, and Banking Partners
- Improve uptime, reduce latency, and automate error handling
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexible in-office collaboration schedule
- Bi-weekly all-company meetings
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, and happy hours
- Competitive bonuses and equity
- Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Parental leave policies and family planning benefits
- Catered lunches and fully-stocked kitchens