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Senior Staff Technical Program Manager
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Hybrid · London, United Kingdom
Experience
Lead / principal · 10+ years
Job description
Senior Staff Technical Program Manager responsible for leading large cross-functional programs linked to Ripple's products, bridging traditional finance and trading markets with digital asset infrastructure. The role reports to the Head of TPM within Ripple Core.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Hybrid · London, United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
What you'll do
- Own the strategy, planning, and execution of one or more complex, cross-functional programs across product initiatives by understanding customers, markets, and technology deeply.
- Reduce ambiguity and risk by proactively identifying and eliminating bottlenecks and obstacles, raising issues strategically, and making sound data-driven decisions based on associated trade-offs.
- Communicate with purpose and clarity to stakeholders at all levels, including executive leadership, bringing together cross-functional teams to achieve program objectives.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Operations to ensure programs meet the regulatory, operational, and control expectations of institutional clients.
- Mentor and support other TPMs, and contribute to raising the bar for program management practices across the organization.
- Contribute to technical and operational frameworks that engineering teams can use for decision-making and Operational Excellence.
- Partner with program managers, product managers, and engineering managers to understand development priorities and drive alignment across multiple partners with impactful priorities.
- Lead large, strategic cross-company initiatives end-to-end, from shaping scope and success metrics with leadership through launch, adoption, and measurable business outcomes.
- Own the full program lifecycle across Product, Engineering, and go-to-market teams, driving alignment on priorities, managing dependencies and risks, and holding teams accountable to commitments.
What we're looking for
- 10+ years of technical program management experience leading complex, cross-functional programs in sophisticated enterprise technology environments, working directly with many teams across functions.
- Experience managing programs in traditional finance (TradFi), such as banking, asset management, broker-dealers, custodians, or financial market infrastructure, with a solid understanding of the financial services landscape.
- Experience with and understanding of trading markets (crypto or traditional), including the trade lifecycle (order management, execution, clearing, and settlement), market structure, and liquidity.
- Ability to use data and analytics to look at trends and lead the 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 project planning tools such as Jira and Confluence, and proficiency in Google Sheets.
- Experience crafting or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
Nice to have
- Experience in Payments, Custody, Stablecoin, Prime Brokerage, Tokenization, and/or Blockchain ecosystems is a strong plus.
Your team
Ripple Core
Team responsible for leading large cross-functional programs linked to Ripple's Products; role reports to the Head of TPM within Ripple Core.
Benefits
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
- The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
- In-office collaboration for moments that matter, with managers and teams deciding which 10+ days a month they come in
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with the Leadership Team
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more
- 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
- 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
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About Ripple
Building a world where value moves like information does today
Ripple provides crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers.
Mission
Improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity for more people, in more places around the world through crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers.
Key facts
- Crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers
- Fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
What they value
- Every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team
- In-office collaboration for moments that matter