Sales Director - Otc, Americas

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

Sales Director for Ripple's OTC liquidity business in the Americas, focusing on institutional clients in FX and digital assets. This is a quota-carrying role requiring a strong network and ability to originate, qualify, and close deals.

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 the Americas — including financial institutions, other OTC desks, equity, commodity, and FX brokers, 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. Develop high-impact account plans that prioritize the highest-value counterparts and convert top-of-funnel interest into active trading relationships.
  4. 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.
  5. Feed real-time market color and client feedback to the desk; help shape the product and pricing offering based on what you hear on the ground.

Skills

Required

  • institutional sales experience
  • institutional trading experience
  • FX market knowledge
  • digital asset market knowledge
  • client relationship management
  • pipeline management
  • negotiation skills
  • communication skills
  • understanding of OTC market mechanics
  • understanding of FX settlement workflows
  • understanding of digital asset liquidity dynamics

Nice to have

  • experience at a reputable crypto exchange
  • experience at an 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
  • knows the institutional FX and digital asset ecosystem
  • existing network to build institutional pipeline from day one
  • not a role for someone who waits for leads; it’s a role for someone who already 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