Director, Payment Operations

Ripple Ripple · Fintech · San Francisco, CA +1 · Financial Services

Ripple is seeking a Director of Payment Operations to scale the operational backbone of their payment products. This role involves building a 24/7 operating model, optimizing processes, and automating operations to ensure reliable and repeatable execution of financial products. The Director will collaborate with various teams including Product, Trading, Risk, Treasury, and Engineering.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate with Product, Trading, Treasury, and external customers to ensure timely settlement of crypto and fiat funds across products
  2. Build programs and strategies that identify and resolve discrepancies quickly, coordinating across internal partners and counterparties
  3. Support exchange and bank connectivity, integrating data into core operational processes
  4. Lead the transformation of reconciliation from manual to automated across a suite of products
  5. Assess risks and requirements across asset types, including cryptocurrencies, to respond quickly to market activity and exceptions

Skills

Required

  • operations supporting payment services, trading, or middle office
  • leadership capacity
  • payment services, collections, markets, and instruments
  • reconciliation principles
  • connectivity with banks, exchanges, or crypto platforms

Nice to have

  • automation initiatives
  • SQL query creation
  • Excel and VBA

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years in operations supporting payment services, trading, or middle office, with at least 3–5 years in a leadership capacity
  • Experience building and/or supporting connectivity with banks, exchanges, or crypto platforms