Director, Product Operations

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

Director, Product Operations at Ripple, responsible for building a scalable, 24/7 operating model for financial products, optimizing processes, and automating the global working stack. This role involves partnering with Trading, Risk, Treasury, and Engineering teams to ensure operational execution, manage fund settlement, resolve discrepancies, and transform reconciliation processes. Experience with exchange and bank connectivity, understanding of financial markets (especially crypto), and SQL are key. The role supports a globally distributed customer base and requires expertise in finance operational flows.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate with Trading, Operations and Treasury teams, as well as external customers, to ensure timely settlement of crypto and fiat funds across all products.
  2. Responsible for building programs and strategies that identify and resolve discrepancies promptly, while liaising with internal partners, counterparties and other relevant teams
  3. Experience with exchange and bank connectivity to support build of data integration into core operational processes
  4. Partner across teams to transform reconciliation processes to an automated state across a suite of products
  5. Understand risks and requirements for different asset types, including cryptocurrencies, to ensure quick responses to market activity and exceptions.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of trading operations, middle office or payment operations roles
  • 3–5 years in a leadership capacity
  • High attention to detail
  • ability to problem solve
  • organized in a dynamic environment
  • Broad understanding of markets and instruments (OTC, crypto, derivatives)
  • data capture and reconciliation principles
  • High proficiency in Google and Microsoft office applications, including Excel and VBA

Nice to have

  • Experience with SQL and writing queries for daily operations

What the JD emphasized

  • building a scalable, 24/7 operating model
  • automate our global working stack
  • timely settlement of crypto and fiat funds
  • identify and resolve discrepancies promptly
  • data integration into core operational processes
  • transform reconciliation processes to an automated state
  • quick responses to market activity and exceptions
  • detail existing processes