Principal Technical Program Manager

Ripple provides payments, custody and stablecoin solutions that help financial institutions integrate blockchain and digital assets.

Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026

San Francisco, California, United States
About Ripple

Ripple helps financial institutions transform global payments by providing blockchain-powered infrastructure for cross-border payments, digital asset custody, and stablecoin solutions. With it, users can enable instant settlements, reduce costs, and access new markets. The company was originally founded as OpenCoin in 2012 and rebranded to Ripple in 2015.

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About the Role

You'll join the team leading large cross-functional programs tied to Ripple's products. In this technical and strategic role, you'll synthesize business and technical requirements while anticipating Ripple's current and future customer needs. You'll work closely with product and engineering teams to design robust and scalable systems, lead product schedules, remove roadblocks, and keep development velocity high. You'll set high-level strategy while staying ready to get hands-on when an initiative needs a push, and you'll champion teams as they invent and deliver customer-focused solutions to bold, ambiguous challenges.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of previous release and/or project management experience on projects involving sophisticated enterprise tech environments working directly with many teams across functions
  • Ability to use data and analytics to look at trends and lead health of projects and systems
  • Shown understanding and working knowledge of software development and modern project management standard processes, such as Agile, Scrum, Six Sigma, etc.
  • Ability to coordinate multi-functionally, build consensus, and complete across teams; able to influence without authority, negotiate and encourage others in a matrixed environment
  • Experience with project planning tools such as Jira, Confluence, and a proficient user of Google Sheets
  • Experience crafting or architecting design patterns, reliability, and scaling of new and existing systems
  • Experience in Payments, Custody, Stablecoin, and/or Blockchain ecosystems

Responsibilities

  • Develop department-level priorities and strategy across liquidity initiatives by understanding customers and technology deeply
  • Reduce ambiguity and risk by proactively identifying and eliminating bottlenecks, raising issues strategically, and making sound data-driven decisions
  • Communicate with purpose and clarity, bringing together cross-functional teams to achieve program objectives
  • Act as a role model and inspiring leader for other TPMs
  • Create technical frameworks that engineering teams can use for decision-making
  • Influence efficiency of Operation Excellence processes across the organization
  • Partner with program managers, product managers, and engineering managers to understand development priorities and drive alignment across multiple partners
  • Proactively identify and mitigate risks and remove obstacles impeding development achievements
  • Drive testing dependencies for assigned engineering teams and across teams as products converge for release
  • Build release, bug, and supervising dashboards to advise partners of development progress and gaps

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 and virtual programming
  • Generous vacation policy
  • Industry-leading parental leave policies and family planning benefits
  • Catered lunches, fully stocked kitchens with premium snacks and beverages
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