Lead large cross-functional product programs, synthesize business and technical requirements, design scalable systems, manage schedules, remove roadblocks, drive alignment across product and engineering, mitigate risks, coordinate testing and releases, and build dashboards to track development progress.
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 role reports to the Head of TPM within Ripple Core. 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 priorities and strategy across strategic product initiatives by understanding our customers and technology deeply.
- Reduce ambiguity and risk by proactively identifying and eliminating bottlenecks and obstacles, 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.
- Improve the efficiency of Operational 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.
- Coordinate testing and release dependencies for assigned engineering teams, and across teams as products converge for release.
- Build release, bug, and progress-tracking dashboards to advise partners on development progress and gaps.
- 8+ years of previous release and/or technical program 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 deliver across teams. Able to influence without authority, negotiate, and encourage others in a matrixed environment.
- Experience with Jira and Confluence, and proficiency in 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.
Please find our UK/EU Applicant Privacy Notice and our California Applicant Privacy Notice for reference.
Ripple San Francisco, California, USA Office
San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94104
Similar Jobs
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • HR Tech • Information Technology • Productivity • Software • Automation
Lead and deliver large, cross-functional AI- and product-focused programs across Product, Engineering, Experience, Sales, Finance, Marketing, and Customer Success. Translate strategy into execution, establish governance, manage risks and dependencies, drive scalable processes, and use AI tools to synthesize insights, automate repeatable tasks, and accelerate outcomes. Communicate with executives and stakeholders and ensure program delivery from conception through transition to operations.
Top Skills:
Ai ToolsSaaSServicenowWorkflow Automation
Fintech • Mobile • Software • Financial Services
Lead and mature SoFi's vulnerability management program, driving prioritization, cross-functional remediation campaigns, governance, KPIs, and executive reporting. Build operating rhythms for intake, triage, tracking, escalation, and continuous improvement across security, engineering, product, and risk teams to reduce mean time to remediate and improve measurable risk outcomes.
Top Skills:
Ai-Enabled WorkflowsApi SecurityApplication SecurityCi/CdCloudCloud Security Posture Management (Cspm)ContainersDashboards/KpisDevsecopsEndpoint SecurityRemediation OrchestrationSecure SdlcSoftware Supply Chain SecurityVulnerability ManagementVulnerability Scanners
Fintech • Mobile • Software • Financial Services
Lead end-to-end strategy and execution of enterprise data governance and privacy programs (Privacy Rights Management). Translate policy into technical requirements, drive automation (DSARs, PRM), define controls (RBAC, metadata, lineage, retention), partner with engineering, legal, and compliance, and report program status and risks to leadership.
Top Skills:
AirflowCockroachdbLlmPostgresPythonRbacSnowflakeSQL
What you need to know about the San Francisco Tech Scene
San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area attracts more startup funding than any other region in the world. Home to Stanford University and UC Berkeley, leading VC firms and several of the world’s most valuable companies, the Bay Area is the place to go for anyone looking to make it big in the tech industry. That said, San Francisco has a lot to offer beyond technology thanks to a thriving art and music scene, excellent food and a short drive to several of the country’s most beautiful recreational areas.
Key Facts About San Francisco Tech
- Number of Tech Workers: 365,500; 13.9% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
- Major Tech Employers: Google, Apple, Salesforce, Meta
- Key Industries: Artificial intelligence, cloud computing, fintech, consumer technology, software
- Funding Landscape: $50.5 billion in venture capital funding in 2024 (Pitchbook)
- Notable Investors: Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins
- Research Centers and Universities: Stanford University; University of California, Berkeley; University of San Francisco; Santa Clara University; Ames Research Center; Center for AI Safety; California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
