Principal Technical Program Manager

Ripple Ripple · Fintech · New York, NY +1 · Engineering

Principal Technical Program Manager to lead large cross-functional programs linked to Ripple's Products. This role requires synthesizing business and technical requirements, designing robust and scalable systems, leading product schedules, removing roadblocks, and ensuring high development velocity. The TPM will be responsible for high-level strategy and hands-on execution, driving customer-focused solutions in a fast-paced environment. Key responsibilities include developing department-level strategy, reducing ambiguity and risk, communicating effectively, creating technical frameworks, influencing operational excellence, partnering with various teams, mitigating risks, driving testing dependencies, and building dashboards for development progress.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop department-level priorities and strategy across our liquidity initiatives by understanding our customers and technology deeply.
  2. Reduce ambiguity and risk by proactively identifying and eliminating bottlenecks, raising issues strategically, and making sound data-driven decisions that deliver for our customers based on associated trade-offs.
  3. Communicate with purpose and clarity, bringing together cross-functional teams to achieve program objectives.
  4. Be a role model and an inspiring leader for other TPMs.
  5. Create technical frameworks that can be used by engineering teams for decision-making.

Skills

Required

  • 12+ 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 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 complete across teams. Able to influence without authority, negotiate and encourage others in a matrixed environment
  • Experience with project planning tools such as Jira, Confluence, and a 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

Nice to have

  • passionate about enabling teams to invent and deliver customer-focused solutions to bold and ambiguous challenges.

What the JD emphasized

  • 12+ years of previous release and/or project management experience on projects involving sophisticated enterprise tech environments working directly with many teams across functions.