Strategy & Operations Senior 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 work directly with the Head of Ecosystem Growth, Product and Partnerships to drive critical initiatives, operational rigor, and cross-functional alignment. You'll be at the heart of RippleX's mission to establish the XRP Ledger as the go-to blockchain for Institutional DeFi, bringing strong strategic, analytical, operational and executional skills to a fast-paced environment.
Requirements
- 6 to 10 years of experience in strategy and operations within Web3, fintech, technology, or consulting
- Proven track record of operational support for Sales, BD, and/or Delivery teams
- Strong understanding of crypto ecosystems, with a bonus for experience with L1 protocols, tokenization, stablecoins, or DeFi
- Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and project execution skills
- Outstanding communication skills, with experience presenting to senior stakeholders
- Proficiency with dashboards and data tools, and comfort operating in rapidly changing environments
Responsibilities
- Lead operational orchestration of DeFi and EVM sidechain initiatives, including governance frameworks, fund deployment mechanisms, and collaboration models with internal teams and third-party partners
- Develop and maintain a multi-year ecosystem growth framework in tandem with product and partnerships teams, anchored to the "Utility, Liquidity and Trust" North Star
- Define shared, measurable metrics for all external hubs and ecosystem programs including RWA grants, startup programs, hackathons, and developer relations with clear success criteria and decision checkpoints
- Coordinate cross-functional projects to activate key use cases such as stablecoin payments, credit and capital markets, and RWA tokenization, driving regulated asset and institutional activity on-chain
- Support the VP of Partnerships in developing quarterly and annual planning cycles, including pipeline review and management for prospects and existing partners
- Collaborate with product and partnership teams to identify and expand on-chain yield use cases across the XRP Ledger ecosystem, measuring success by counterparty deployment and engagement
- Partner with PMM and product teams to deliver actionable go-to-market plans for key product launches
- Design decision-making frameworks that accelerate choices, increase transparency, and drive go/no-go alignment across leadership
- Establish operating rhythm, run key leadership meetings, and structure strategic questions for decision-making
- Build and maintain structured workflows for core processes including partner onboarding, risk response, and delivery management, tracking and reporting progress on key cross-functional initiatives to senior leadership
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexible in-office collaboration schedule
- Bi-weekly all-company meetings
- 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
- Wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Parental leave policies and family planning benefits
- Catered lunches and fully-stocked kitchens