Staff Technical Program Manager

About the role

The Staff Technical Program Manager will lead large cross-functional programs linked to Ripple's Products. This role requires expertise in synthesizing business and technical requirements and ensuring solutions meet current and future customer needs. The ideal candidate will have a track record of foreseeing potential issues and driving innovation.

Responsibilities

• Develop cross-product-level priorities and strategy across liquidity initiatives by deeply understanding customers and technology.
• Reduce ambiguity and risk by proactively identifying and eliminating bottlenecks, raising issues strategically, and making data-driven decisions that benefit customers.
• Communicate with purpose and clarity, bringing together cross-functional teams to achieve program objectives.
• Be an inspiring leader to 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.

Requirements

• 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 the health of projects and systems.
• Show understanding and working knowledge of software development and modern project management standard processes, such as Agile, Scrum, Six Sigma, etc.
• Able to coordinate multi-functionally, build consensus, and complete across teams. Ability to influence without authority, negotiate, and encourage others in a matrixed environment.
• Experience with project planning tools such as Jira, Confluence, and 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.

Qualifications

• Experience in CA: Annual Base Salary Range: $188,000 USD - $235,000 USD.

Skills

• Data analysis and trend identification.
• Project management and coordination skills.
• Technical leadership and problem-solving abilities.
• Effective communication and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience with project planning tools.
• Understanding of blockchain and related technologies.

Benefits

• Professional development budget.
• Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity.
• Comprehensive benefits package covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family formation, and family support.
• Employee giving match.
• Mobile phone stipend.
• R&R days.
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming.
• Broad vacation policy.
• Parental leave policies.
• Family planning benefits.
• Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and fun events.

Pay

For positions based in CA, the annual salary range for this position is $188,000 USD - $235,000 USD. Actual salaries may vary based on numerous factors including, among other things, an individual applicant’s experience and qualifications for the position.

Schedule

Not specified.