Senior Manager, Competitive Intelligence
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'll ensure that Ripple's leaders and employees remain current on industry trends and market developments. Reporting into the SVP of Strategic Initiatives, you'll work across the entire Ripple organization to deliver timely information, analysis, and actionable insights that put these developments in context. Your intelligence work will be pivotal in crafting the company's strategy, product roadmap, partnership priorities and investments.
Requirements
- 10+ years of work experience in market intelligence and industry research, ideally within crypto, FinTech, or financial services, coupled with operational experience in ambitious, fast-paced startup environments
- A strong, demonstrated interest in digital assets and crypto markets, with specific familiarity regarding the intersection of institutional finance and blockchain technology
- The ability to develop rigorous, evidence-based research that moves beyond desk research to incorporate business and financial analysis
- Elite communication and presentation skills, with a proven ability to translate complex data and technical concepts into actionable insights for a general business audience
- Strong teamwork and collaboration skills within a matrix organization, demonstrating the ability to work effectively at all levels of the company including the C-suite
- Robust industry connections and a visible presence across the key communication channels used by the crypto community today, such as X/Twitter, Discord, Telegram, and Reddit
Responsibilities
- Synthesize technology, regulatory, and business perspectives from diverse sources to develop high-impact insights that drive strategic perspective on developments related to Ripple's businesses
- Analyze industry trends and competitor activities to uncover strategic opportunities and threats, leveraging a deep understanding of Ripple's products to deliver analysis that goes far beyond news aggregation
- Proactively identify and monitor industry developments, quickly flagging high-priority shifts with relevant context and analysis to Leadership and appropriate internal teams
- Deliver proactive, executive-ready briefings and strategic reports to Ripple's senior leadership team, including the CEO, with clear points of view and recommendations to inform high-level decision-making
- Collaborate closely with Ripple leaders and subject matter experts to pinpoint and prioritize the most critical competitive intelligence topics for deep-dive research
- Forge trusted partnerships across the product, marketing, regulatory and corporate development teams to translate market insights into actionable strategies that drive business growth
- Manage competitive intelligence resources and cultivate industry networks, securing boots-on-the-ground intelligence from the crypto and payments sectors and representing Ripple at key industry events
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexible in-office collaboration schedule
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours
- Competitive bonuses and equity
- Health, retirement, family forming, and family support benefits
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Wellness reimbursement and onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Parental leave policies
- Family planning benefits
- Catered lunches and fully-stocked kitchens