Lead Product Manager, Connectivity

blockchaincapital.com; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonuses and equity

Generous vacation policy

Wellness reimbursement

Job summary

Ripple is looking for a Lead Product Manager to manage the Connectivity Platform, enhancing data exchange across financial networks.

This role demands over 10 years in product management, particularly in API Platforms. The ideal candidate will lead a multi-functional engineering team, ensuring integration efficiency between traditional finance and blockchain technology. Benefits include competitive salary, comprehensive healthcare, and generous vacation policies.

Qualifications

• Experience leading dedicated multi-functional engineering teams.
• Deep understanding of API systems and specifications.
• Experience building developer-facing documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Connectivity Team and manage partner SDK lifecycles.
• Drive the connectivity strategy across bank channels.
• Ensure reliable, scalable, and secure data exchange.

Skills

API Platforms

Integration iPaaS

Fintech Infrastructure

Team Leadership

Technical Fluency

Education

10+ years in product management

Tools

SAP

Oracle

NetSuite

Job description

At Ripple, we’re building a world where value moves like information does today. It’s big, it’s bold, and we’re already doing it. Through our crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers, we are improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity for more people, in more places around the world. And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs.

If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.

GTreasury, now a Ripple solution, was acquired by Ripple in 2025, marking a significant expansion into the multi-trillion-dollar corporate finance arena. GTreasury has more than 40 years of experience supporting some of the world’s largest and most sophisticated companies. Integrating its treasury command center into Ripple’s technology stack gives corporates the ability to move, manage and optimize liquidity in real-time, across traditional and digital assets, under one expanded umbrella.

Join us to build the future of corporate treasury and the infrastructure that powers the Internet of Value.

The Work

Global treasury doesn't work without global connectivity. We’re hiring a Lead Product Manager to own the Connectivity Platform—the foundational infrastructure that connects Ripple Treasury to the world’s financial networks.

You will own and drive the end-to-end connectivity strategy across bank channels (including our ClearConnect proprietary reporting & payments APIs), money market fund platforms (via SDK integrations), ERP ecosystems (third-party connectors & SDKs), and other critical Office of the CFO integration points. Following Ripple's acquisition of GTreasury, we're building the future of treasury management at the intersection of traditional finance and blockchain technology. Your work will ensure the reliable, scalable, and secure data exchange that underpins our core treasury platform experience, balancing build-vs-integrate decisions to accelerate time-to-value for enterprise clients across all ingress and egress pathways.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the Connectivity Team (Pod): Serve as the definitive product owner for a newly formed, dedicated multi-functional engineering team. Partner closely with engineering leads to build, scale, and maintain our connectivity platform, the foundational layer enabling real-time data exchange across banks, ERPs, fund portals, and digital asset networks.
• Drive the Core Mandate: Serve as the single product leader accountable for global connectivity coverage, balancing build-vs-integrate decisions to ensure rapid time-to-value for our customers.
• API Standardization & Developer Experience: Evangelize an API-first approach within Ripple Treasury. Manage and streamline developer-facing documentation and materials, ensuring our internal solution teams (Payments, Cash, Accounting) and external partners can easily consume our standard APIs.
• Manage Partner SDK Lifecycles: Own the lifecycle management for partner SDKs and third-party connectors, driving deep interoperability with Enterprise ERPs (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite) and Money Market Fund portals.
• Expand Bank Channels: Optimize and expand our global banking network, using both standard reporting/payment APIs and our ClearConnect proprietary channels to ensure resilient data exchange across all ingress and egress pathways.
• Lead Through Complexity: Proactively resolve conflicts and drive alignment between Engineering, Security, and Banking Partners. Obsess over the health of the network, driving initiatives to improve uptime, reduce latency, and automate error handling.

What You’ll Bring

• 10+ years in product management, with a specific focus on API Platforms, Integration iPaaS, or Fintech Infrastructure.
• Team Leadership: Experience leading dedicated multi-functional engineering teams and driving alignment across multiple partners to launch net-new platform capabilities.
• Technical Fluency: Deep understanding and passion for systems and APIs. Possess the technical depth to interpret complex bank specifications (ISO 20022, NACHA, SWIFT gpi) and translate them into foundational building blocks for engineering.
• Developer Empathy: Experience building for a developer audience. Know what makes a great API and how to write clear, compelling user documentation.
• Strategic Vision: Can look at a fragmented landscape of legacy banks and modern fintechs and see a path to unification. Comfortable prioritizing “boring” infrastructure work because it drives long-term leverage.

Preferred (not required):

• Deep expertise in enterprise ERP ecosystems (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics), including middleware and API-layer connectivity patterns that enable real-time treasury data flows across complex, multi-entity environments.
• Experience evaluating and expanding proprietary bank and financial institution connectivity with a clear point of view on when to build direct integrations, when to partner, and how to structure that analysis in a way that drives long-term platform leverage over commodity aggregation.
• Proven track record building and scaling a developer experience, including API portals, comprehensive documentation, sandbox environments, OAuth/key management, and developer support workflows – creating the kind of ecosystem infrastructure that makes Ripple Treasury the easiest platform to connect to in treasury.
• Background in institutional or transaction banking, including payment rails, bank statement formats (MT940, BAI2, CAMT), and the nuances of working with bank connectivity teams across regions.
• Familiarity with Money Market Fund (MMF) portals and digital asset custody integrations, with an understanding of how programmable liquidity changes the connectivity model.
• Working knowledge of SOC 2, GDPR, and PSD2/Open Banking compliance frameworks as they apply to financial data connectivity and third-party integration governance.

Who We Are

Do Your Best Work

• The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
• A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact. A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
• Thrive in an environment where no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
• In-office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture, and we give managers and teams the flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month they come in.
• Bi-weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team
• We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!

Benefits

Take Control of Your Finances

• Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
• Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
• Employee giving match
• Mobile phone stipend

Take Care of Yourself

• R&R days so you can rest and recharge
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
• Generous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it
• Industry-leading parental leave policies. Family planning benefits.
• Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events

Benefits listed above are for full-time employees.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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