Director, Technical Services

Ripple•San Francisco, CA

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. As Director, Technical Services you will be leading a distributed team responsible for providing first-class service and support for our financial institution and payment provider customers using Ripple’s critical service to make payments around the globe. In your role you will directly work with our customers and coordinate with Ripple’s Product Management and Engineering teams to troubleshoot, replicate, and resolve issues to our customers satisfaction. You will manage a distributed team with two regional managers reporting to you covering Americas/Europe and APAC/Middle East. You will engage all levels of the Ripple organization as appropriate from Project Management, Integration, Engineering, and our Leadership team, providing the voice of the customer to help prioritize company initiatives, processes, and product enhancements. You will play a key role in defining production support and oversight arrangements for Ripple customers so that the risk of service interruption is reduced. These activities will be instrumental in ensuring a smooth and reliable production experience for all users of Ripple technology.

Requirements

Proven experience building and managing large global teams.
10+ years of increasingly responsible professional experience in supporting/managing complex and managing a support practice.
Excellent leadership and decision-making capabilities and able to be highly effective in demanding situations.
A strong sense of ownership, and empathetic attitude that “the customers’ problem is my problem”.
At least 4 years of technical experience in a supervisory or management capacity.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills is a must.
Strong collaboration skills to partner with internal Product and Engineering teams as well as external customers in an agile environment.
The ability to communicate your knowledge of enterprise level, commercially available hardware and software products, operating systems, networking systems, and methodologies for integrating web-based products.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of, and experience working with, industry data standards e.g. in Banking (ACH, SWIFT, SEPA, etc.) is a plus.
Functional understanding of payment flows and cross border payment processing and experience with digital assets a plus

Responsibilities

Build and scale a world-class global support practice.
Enhance and adhere to a world-class set of operational procedures and policies for critical production support on a peer-to-peer payments network, and continually review and improve on these on an ongoing basis.
Define and manage the team interaction and communication with our customers and the delivery teams regarding issue management, customer concerns and coordination with engineering teams.
Define and complete multiple concurrent cross-team projects such as customer upgrades, issue prioritization and roadmapping with Product Management, and issue alerts to delivery teams and customers.
Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to shape communication within Ripple in addition to communicating with our VIP customers.
Lead the team to great success and growth – in turn helping to fuel the tremendous growth of Ripple as well.
Act as a coach and mentor to your managers and to the individual contributors on your team.

Benefits

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!
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
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