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, money market fund platforms, ERP ecosystems, and other critical Office of the CFO integration points. You'll lead a dedicated multi-functional engineering team as the definitive product owner of the connectivity platform, balancing build-vs-integrate decisions to accelerate time-to-value for enterprise clients. You'll evangelize an API-first approach, manage developer-facing documentation, own partner SDK lifecycles, expand the global banking network, and resolve conflicts across engineering, security, and banking partners to improve uptime and reduce latency.
Requirements
- 10+ years in product management with focus on API Platforms, Integration iPaaS, or Fintech Infrastructure
- Experience leading dedicated multi-functional engineering teams
- Deep understanding of systems and APIs including ISO 20022, NACHA, SWIFT gpi
- Experience building for a developer audience and writing API documentation
- Ability to unify a fragmented landscape of legacy banks and modern fintechs
- Deep expertise in enterprise ERP ecosystems such as SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics (preferred)
- Experience evaluating and expanding proprietary bank connectivity (preferred)
- Track record building and scaling developer experience including API portals, sandbox environments, OAuth/key management (preferred)
- Background in institutional or transaction banking including payment rails and bank statement formats like MT940, BAI2, CAMT (preferred)
- Familiarity with Money Market Fund portals and digital asset custody integrations (preferred)
- Working knowledge of SOC 2, GDPR, and PSD2/Open Banking compliance frameworks (preferred)
Responsibilities
- Lead the Connectivity Team (Pod) as the definitive product owner
- Partner with engineering leads to build, scale, and maintain the connectivity platform
- Drive global connectivity coverage balancing build-vs-integrate decisions
- Evangelize an API-first approach within Ripple Treasury
- Manage and streamline developer-facing documentation and materials
- Own lifecycle management for partner SDKs and third-party connectors
- Drive interoperability with enterprise ERPs and money market fund portals
- Optimize and expand the global banking network
- Ensure resilient data exchange across ingress and egress pathways
- Resolve conflicts and drive alignment between Engineering, Security, and Banking Partners
- Improve uptime, reduce latency, and automate error handling
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Industry-leading parental leave policies
- Family planning benefits
- Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages
- Equity
- Bonuses