Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Information Security
Ripple
$216,000 - $270,000 / year
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Description
At Ripple, we’re building a world where value moves like information does today. It’s big, it’s bold, and we’re already doing it. Through our crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers, we are improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity for more people, in more places around the world. And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs.
If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.
At Ripple, we’re building a world where value moves like information does today. It’s big, it’s bold, and we’re already doing it. Through our crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers, we are improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity for more people, in more places around the world. And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs.
If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.
The work:
We're seeking a dedicated, passionate, and eager Senior Staff Technical Program Manager to join our team responsible for leading Ripple's Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) migration program. This is a challenging and technical role, requiring the expertise to synthesize business and technical requirements and the foresight to ensure we are solving for Ripple's current and future security needs ahead of Q-Day. You will work closely with InfoSec, XRPL Core, Payments, Custody, Stablecoin, Platform, Compliance, and Legal to drive a company-wide cryptographic migration across asymmetric ciphers, symmetric ciphers, hashing functions, and digital signatures. You will partner with InfoSec on the high-level strategy, but also know when to get hands-on to push an initiative forward. You must be passionate about enabling teams to invent and deliver security-focused solutions to bold and ambiguous challenges.
What you'll do:
- Drive execution of Ripple's PQC program end-to-end, from cryptographic asset inventory through risk prioritization, tradeoff analysis, and migration execution, against a Q-Day-readiness target of the end of 2028.
- Stand up and own a cross-org PQC working group with named owners across XRPL Core, Payments, Custody, Stablecoin, Platform, and InfoSec.
- Drive alignment with vendors and partners (custody partners, exchanges, payment processors, HSM vendors) on compatible PQC roadmaps, escalating gaps.
- Reduce ambiguity and risk by proactively identifying and eliminating bottlenecks and obstacles, raising issues strategically, and making sound data-driven decisions that deliver for our customers based on associated trade-offs.
- Communicate program status, risk, and progress with purpose and clarity to engineering leadership and executive sponsors, including maintaining the program dashboard reviewed monthly by execs.
- Be a role model and an inspiring leader for other TPMs.
- Create technical frameworks that can be used by engineering teams for decision-making.
- Influence & improve the efficiency of Operational Excellence processes org-wide.
- Partner with program managers, product managers, and engineering managers to understand development priorities and drive alignment across multiple partners with impactful priorities.
- Coordinate testing and release dependencies for assigned engineering teams, and across teams as products converge for release.
- Build migration-progress, risk-register, and readiness dashboards to advise partners and leadership of progress and gaps.
What you'll bring:
- 10+ years of program management experience on initiatives involving sophisticated enterprise tech environments, working directly with many teams across functions.
- Solid understanding of cryptographic fundamentals (asymmetric/symmetric ciphers, hashing, digital signatures) sufficient to synthesize technical tradeoffs with engineering and InfoSec stakeholders.
- Prior exposure to PQC, cryptographic migrations, or security/compliance-driven technical programs is a strong plus.
- Ability to use data and analytics to look at trends and lead health of projects and systems.
- Ability to coordinate multi-functionally, build consensus, and execute across teams. Able to influence without authority, negotiate, and encourage others in a matrixed environment.
- Experience with Jira and Confluence, and proficiency in 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.
WHO WE ARE:
Do Your Best Work
- The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
- A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact. A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
- Thrive in an environment where no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
- In-office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture, and we give managers and teams the flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month they come in.
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team
- We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!
Take Control of Your Finances
- Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
- Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
Take Care of Yourself
- R&R days so you can rest and recharge
- Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it
- Industry-leading parental leave policies. Family planning benefits.
- Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events
Benefits listed above are for full-time employees.
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Benefits
- stock options
- parental leave
- professional development
About this role
Ripple is seeking a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager to lead the company's Post-Quantum Cryptography migration program—a multi-year, company-wide initiative to update cryptographic systems across asymmetric ciphers, symmetric ciphers, hashing functions, and digital signatures before Q-Day arrives at the end of 2028. You'll own execution end-to-end, from cryptographic asset inventory through risk prioritization and migration execution, while standing up and leading a cross-organizational working group spanning XRPL Core, Payments, Custody, Stablecoin, Platform, and InfoSec. This is a hands-on technical leadership role that requires both strategic partnership with InfoSec and the willingness to dig into details when needed to unblock progress.
The work demands someone with 10+ years of program management experience in sophisticated enterprise environments who can synthesize business and technical requirements across multiple functions. You'll need solid cryptographic fundamentals to discuss tradeoffs credibly with engineering and security teams, prior exposure to PQC or cryptographic migrations is a strong advantage, and you should be comfortable building dashboards, managing risk registers, and communicating program health monthly to executive sponsors. Success requires the ability to coordinate without direct authority, influence through data-driven decision-making, and navigate a matrixed environment where you're constantly aligning vendors, partners, and internal teams around compatible roadmaps.
This is a full-time, in-office role in San Francisco with a base salary of $216,000–$270,000 USD. The position suits someone who thrives on technically complex, security-critical programs with clear stakes and a defined deadline, and who wants to shape how a major financial technology company prepares for a known future threat.
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