Sales Director - Institutional Otc

Ripple Ripple · Fintech · Singapore · Sales

Sales Director for Institutional OTC at Ripple, focusing on building and owning the regional OTC pipeline in Asia Pacific. The role involves originating and developing relationships with institutional clients, driving the full sales cycle, and acting as the primary interface between clients and Ripple's internal OTC desk. Requires significant experience in institutional sales or trading-adjacent roles within FX or digital assets, and a strong network in the Asia Pacific market.

What you'd actually do

  1. Originate and develop relationships with institutional clients across FX desks, treasury operations, crypto-native firms, and digital asset funds in Asia Pacific — including Southeast Asian banks, Japanese and Korean financial institutions, regional exchanges, and crypto-native trading firms.
  2. Drive the full sales cycle from initial outreach through term sheet negotiation and close, meeting and exceeding quarterly booking targets.
  3. Serve as the primary interface between external clients and Ripple’s internal OTC desk, translating client needs into executable trades and ensuring pricing, flow, and post-trade communication meet institutional standards.
  4. Act as a subject-matter expert on Ripple’s liquidity products — spot, options, and stablecoin settlement — and translate technical advantages into clear commercial value for treasury and trading counterparts.
  5. Maintain accurate pipeline forecasting and CRM hygiene, providing reliable visibility into deal flow and client status.

Skills

Required

  • Institutional sales experience
  • FX and digital asset ecosystem knowledge
  • Existing network in Asia Pacific
  • Sales cycle management
  • Client relationship management
  • Understanding of OTC market mechanics
  • Understanding of FX settlement workflows
  • Understanding of digital asset liquidity dynamics
  • Communication skills (C-suite and desk level)
  • Pipeline forecasting
  • CRM proficiency

Nice to have

  • Experience at a reputable crypto exchange or institutional digital asset firm
  • Familiarity with blockchain-enabled settlement
  • Familiarity with stablecoin liquidity
  • Familiarity with cross-border payment rails

What the JD emphasized

  • quota-carrying role
  • build institutional pipeline from day one
  • knows the right desks and knows how to get the meeting
  • 8+ years in an institutional sales or trading-adjacent role
  • Direct experience working alongside or interfacing with an institutional trading desk
  • well-developed network of active relationships
  • Demonstrated track record of owning a revenue number and delivering against it