Director, Product Planning
About The Position
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 Director of Product Planning will act as the connection within our product group, converting strategy into a practical, well-ordered plan. This person keeps the product team coordinated, informed, and progressing effectively. This role offers high visibility and influence for someone wanting to engage with the full product organization. You will not directly own a feature roadmap. Your role is to guide the process that aligns and prioritizes all product leaders’ roadmaps. The metrics themselves are created by our Data Science team. Your responsibility is to manage how these metrics are analyzed, communicated, and formed into a decisive narrative.
Requirements
- 5+ years in product operations, technical program management, chief-of-staff, or a similar cross-functional planning role
- Strong track record running planning/prioritization processes across multiple teams or product lines
- Comfortable working with data and metrics, even if you do not build the underlying pipelines. You know how to ask Data Science the right questions. Then, you turn their output into a story.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; able to synthesize complexity into something leadership can act on quickly
- Highly organized, low-ego, and energized by making other people's work easier and more coherent
Nice To Haves
- Experience leading or managing a team is a plus, though this role may start as an individual contributor
- Experience in a fast paced, regulated, or high-stakes industry is a plus
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end planning process that turns strategic priorities into a resourced, sequenced roadmap across product lines
- Facilitate tradeoff and prioritization discussions among product leaders, surfacing conflicts and dependencies before they become blockers
- Keep the roadmap current and credible as priorities shift, and make sure changes are communicated clearly to collaborators
- Build and manage the product org's operating rhythm — planning cycles, launch readiness reviews, cross-team syncs, retros
- Own the tooling and systems (e.g., Jira, Linear, Notion) that keep planning artifacts organized and trustworthy as a single source of truth
- Identify and resolve cross-team dependencies and process gaps before they slow down execution
- Partner closely with Data Science, who build and maintain the underlying metrics and dashboards
- Own the reporting layer on top of the data. Pull the right numbers together, synthesize their meaning, and package them into clear, recurring updates for product and company leadership.
- Translate data into recommendations and talking points — not just charts — to inform planning and prioritization decisions
- Serve as a versatile resource for the Senior Director of Product Management, leading cross-organizational initiatives, coordinating process enhancements, or conducting ad hoc analyses
- Represent the product org's planning function in conversations with adjacent teams (engineering, build, legal/compliance, finance) as needed
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
