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 will ensure that Ripple's leaders and employees remain current on industry trends and market developments. Reporting into the SVP of Strategic Initiatives, you will work across the entire Ripple organization to deliver timely information, analysis, and actionable insights that put these developments in context. Your intelligence 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
- Operational experience in ambitious, fast-paced startup environments
- Strong, demonstrated interest in digital assets and crypto markets, with familiarity regarding institutional finance and blockchain technology
- Ability to develop rigorous, evidence-based research incorporating business and financial analysis
- Elite communication and presentation skills
- Strong teamwork and collaboration skills within a matrix organization
- Robust industry connections and visible presence across crypto community channels such as X/Twitter, Discord, Telegram, and Reddit
Responsibilities
- Synthesize technology, regulatory, and business perspectives from diverse sources to develop high-impact insights
- Analyze industry trends and competitor activities to uncover strategic opportunities and threats
- Proactively identify and monitor industry developments, flagging high-priority shifts with relevant context and analysis
- Deliver proactive, executive-ready briefings and strategic reports to senior leadership, including the CEO
- Collaborate with Ripple leaders and subject matter experts to prioritize critical competitive intelligence topics
- Forge partnerships across product, marketing, regulatory and corporate development teams to translate market insights into strategies
- Manage competitive intelligence resources and cultivate industry networks, representing Ripple at key industry events
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- In-office collaboration flexibility for teams to decide days in office
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting with Leadership Team
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours
- Competitive salary, 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