Principal Technical Program Manager
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 lead large cross-functional programs linked to Ripple's Products, working closely with product and engineering teams to design robust and scalable systems, lead product schedules, remove roadblocks, and ensure high development velocity. You will synthesize business and technical requirements, provide technical leadership, and know when to get hands-on to push initiatives forward. You'll be passionate about enabling teams to invent and deliver customer-focused solutions to bold and 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
- Be a role model and an inspiring leader for other TPMs
- Create technical frameworks that can be used by engineering teams 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 to 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
- Flexible in-office collaboration schedule (10+ days a month)
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting with Leadership Team
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, 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
- Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Industry-leading parental leave policies and family planning benefits
- Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and fun events