Senior Staff Technical Program Manager

You will lead Ripple’s post-quantum cryptography migration program from cryptographic asset inventory through risk prioritization and execution. You will coordinate cross-functional teams and external partners, develop technical decision-making frameworks, manage testing and release dependencies, communicate program status and risks to leadership, and build dashboards tracking migration progress and readiness.

Responsibilities

• Drive Ripple’s post-quantum cryptography program from cryptographic asset inventory through migration execution
• Establish and own a cross-organizational post-quantum cryptography working group
• Align vendors and partners on compatible post-quantum cryptography roadmaps
• Identify and eliminate bottlenecks and obstacles
• Communicate program status, risks, and progress to engineering leadership and executive sponsors
• Maintain the program dashboard reviewed monthly by executives
• Create technical frameworks for engineering decision-making
• Improve Operational Excellence processes across the organization
• Align program managers, product managers, and engineering managers across multiple partners
• Coordinate testing and release dependencies across engineering teams
• Build migration-progress, risk-register, and readiness dashboards

Requirements

• 10+ years of program management experience in sophisticated enterprise technology environments
• Understanding of cryptographic fundamentals including asymmetric ciphers, symmetric ciphers, hashing, and digital signatures
• Experience using data and analytics to assess project and system trends
• Ability to coordinate cross-functionally, build consensus, influence without authority, negotiate, and work in a matrixed environment
• Experience with Jira and Confluence
• Proficiency in Google Sheets
• Experience crafting or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling
• Experience in payments, custody, stablecoin, and/or blockchain ecosystems

Benefits

• Professional development budget
• Flexible in-office schedule with teams deciding which 10+ days per month to come in
• Employee giving match
• Mobile phone stipend
• Physical and mental healthcare coverage
• Retirement benefits
• Family-forming benefits
• Family-support benefits
• R&R days
• Wellness reimbursement
• Weekly onsite and virtual wellness programming
• Generous vacation policy
• Parental leave
• Family planning benefits
• Catered lunches
• Fully stocked kitchens with premium snacks and beverages