Principal Technical Program Manager
Ripple provides payments, custody and stablecoin solutions that help financial institutions integrate blockchain and digital assets.
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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
Lead large cross-functional programs linked to Ripple's products, working with product and engineering teams to design robust and scalable systems, lead product schedules, remove roadblocks, and ensure high development velocity. Synthesize business and technical requirements, provide technical leadership, and enable teams to deliver customer-focused solutions to bold and ambiguous challenges.
Requirements
- 12+ years of release and/or project management experience in sophisticated enterprise technology environments working across functions.
- Ability to use data and analytics to identify trends and lead the health of projects and systems.
- Working knowledge of software development and project management processes such as Agile, Scrum, and Six Sigma.
- Ability to coordinate cross-functionally, build consensus, influence without authority, negotiate, and work in a matrixed environment.
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, and Google Sheets.
- Experience crafting or architecting design patterns, reliability, and scaling for 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 engineering teams can use for decision-making.
- Influence the efficiency of Operational 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 supervisory dashboards to advise partners of development progress and gaps.
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexible in-office collaboration schedule of 10+ days per month
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting with the Leadership Team
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, and happy hours
- Competitive bonuses and equity
- Healthcare, retirement, family-forming, and family-support benefits
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite and virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Parental leave and family planning benefits
- Catered lunches and fully stocked kitchens
