Lead Product Manager, Connectivity

Ripple Ripple · Fintech · Chicago, IL +1 · Product & Delivery

Lead Product Manager for Ripple's Connectivity Platform, focusing on integrating traditional finance and blockchain technology for corporate treasury. The role involves owning the end-to-end connectivity strategy across bank channels, money market fund platforms, ERP ecosystems, and digital asset networks, ensuring reliable data exchange and developer experience.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the Connectivity Team (Pod): Serve as the definitive product owner for a newly formed, dedicated multi-functional engineering team. You will partner closely with engineering leads to build, scale, and maintain our connectivity platform, which is the foundational layer enabling real-time data exchange across banks, ERPs, fund portals, and digital asset networks.
  2. Drive the Core Mandate: Serve as the single product leader accountable for global connectivity coverage, balancing build-vs-integrate decisions to ensure rapid time-to-value for our customers.
  3. API Standardization & Developer Experience: Evangelize an API-first approach within Ripple Treasury. You will manage and streamline developer-facing documentation and materials, ensuring our internal solution teams (Payments, Cash, Accounting) and external partners can easily consume our standard APIs.
  4. Manage Partner SDK Lifecycles: Own the lifecycle management for partner SDKs and third-party connectors, driving deep interoperability with Enterprise ERPs (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite) and Money Market Fund portals.
  5. Expand Bank Channels: Optimize and expand our global banking network, using both standard reporting/payment APIs and our ClearConnect proprietary channels to ensure resilient data exchange across all ingress and egress pathways.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years in product management
  • API Platforms
  • Integration iPaaS
  • Fintech Infrastructure
  • Team Leadership
  • Technical Fluency
  • Developer Empathy
  • Strategic Vision

Nice to have

  • Deep expertise in enterprise ERP ecosystems (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics)
  • Experience evaluating and expanding proprietary bank and financial institution connectivity
  • Proven track record building and scaling a developer experience
  • Background in institutional or transaction banking
  • Familiarity with Money Market Fund (MMF) portals and digital asset custody integrations
  • Working knowledge of SO

What the JD emphasized

  • API Platforms
  • Integration iPaaS
  • Fintech Infrastructure
  • enterprise ERP ecosystems
  • Money Market Fund portals
  • digital asset custody integrations