Staff Technical Program Manager

Hidden Road; United States; On-site; USD 188,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Bonuses

Healthcare benefits

Retirement support

Employee giving match

Mobile phone stipend

R&R days

Wellness reimbursement

Generous vacation

Job summary

Ripple is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager to lead large cross-functional programs, collaborating with product and engineering to design scalable systems and accelerate delivery. You will translate business needs into technical strategies while guiding teams through complex, multi-team initiatives in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires 8+ years in release or project management on enterprise-scale projects, strong data analytics, and proficiency with Agile/Scrum.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of release and/or project management experience on complex enterprise projects.
• Ability to use data and analytics to monitor project health and trends.
• Experience with modern project management processes (Agile, Scrum, Six Sigma).
• Ability to coordinate cross-functionally, build consensus, and influence without authority.
• Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and Google Sheets.
• Experience crafting or architecting scalable systems and design patterns.
• Experience in Payments, Custody, Stablecoin, and/or Blockchain ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Develop cross product-level priorities and strategy across liquidity initiatives.
• Identify and mitigate bottlenecks to reduce risk and improve outcomes.
• Communicate clearly with cross-functional teams to achieve program goals.
• Lead and inspire co-leads, peers, and TPM colleagues.
• Contribute to technical frameworks used by engineering teams for decision-making.
• Influence operations excellence processes across the organization.
• Align priorities with program and product managers across multiple partners.
• Identify risks early and remove obstacles to development.
• Drive testing dependencies and release readiness across teams.
• Build dashboards to monitor progress and gaps for partners.

Skills

Release management

Project management

Data analytics

Agile methodology

Jira

Confluence

Google Sheets

System design

Payments/Blockchain

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Google Sheets

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.

The work:

We’re seeking a dedicated, passionate, and eager Staff Technical Program Manager to join our team responsible for leading large cross-functional programs linked to our Products. This is a challenging and technical role, requiring the expertise to synthesize business and technical requirements and the foresight to ensure we are solving for Ripple’s current and future customer needs. You will work closely with our product and engineering teams to design robust and scalable systems, lead product schedules, remove roadblocks, and ensure high development velocity. Ideal candidates have a track record of seeing around the corner and providing technical leadership to deliver for customers. You will be responsible for high-level strategy, but also know when to get hands-on to push an initiative forward. You must be passionate about enabling teams to invent and deliver customer-focused solutions to bold and ambiguous challenges.

What you'll do:

• Develop cross product-level priorities and strategy across our liquidity initiatives by understanding our customers and technology deeply.
• Reduce ambiguity and risk by proactively identifying and eliminating bottlenecks, raising issues strategically, and making sound data-driven decisions that deliver for our customers based on associated trade-offs.
• Communicate with purpose and clarity, bringing together cross-functional teams to achieve program objectives.
• Be an inspiring leader to your co-leads, counterparts, and TPM colleagues.
• Contribute to technical frameworks that can be used by engineering teams for decision-making.
• Influence efficiency of Operation Excellence processes across the organization
• Partner with program managers, product managers, and engineering managers to understand development priorities and drive alignment across multiple partners with impactful priorities
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks and remove obstacles to impeding development achievements
• Drive testing dependencies for assigned engineering teams but also across teams as products converge for release
• Build release, bug, and supervising dashboards to advise partners of development progress and gaps

What you'll bring:

• 8+ years of previous release and/or project management experience on projects involving sophisticated enterprise tech environments working directly with many teams across functions.
• Ability to use data and analytics to look at trends and lead health of projects and systems
• Shown understanding and working knowledge of software development and modern project management standard processes, such as Agile, Scrum, Six Sigma, etc.
• Ability to coordinate multi-functionally, build consensus, and complete across teams. Able to influence without authority, negotiate and encourage others in a matrixed environment
• Experience with project planning tools such as Jira, Confluence, and a proficient user of Google Sheets
• Experience crafting or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience in Payments, Custody, Stablecoin, and/or Blockchain ecosystems

For positions that will be based in CA, the annual salary range for this position is below. Actual salaries may vary based on numerous factors including, among other things, an individual applicant’s experience and qualifications for the position. This range does not include equity or additional compensation, such as bonuses or commissions.

CA Annual Base Salary Range

$188,000 — $235,000 USD

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!

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.

Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by local law or ordinance.

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