Lead Product Manager, Connectivity

Ripple•Chicago, IL

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Global treasury doesn't work without global connectivity. We’re hiring a Lead Product Manager to own the Connectivity Platform—the foundational infrastructure that connects Ripple Treasury to the world’s financial networks. You will own and drive the end-to-end connectivity strategy across bank channels (including our ClearConnect proprietary reporting & payments APIs), money market fund platforms (via SDK integrations), ERP ecosystems (third-party connectors & SDKs), and other critical Office of the CFO integration points. Following Ripple's acquisition of GTreasury, we're building the future of treasury management at the intersection of traditional finance and blockchain technology. Your work will ensure the reliable, scalable, and secure data exchange that underpins our core treasury platform experience, balancing build-vs-integrate decisions to accelerate time-to-value for enterprise clients across all ingress and egress pathways.

Requirements

10+ years in product management, with a specific focus on API Platforms, Integration iPaaS, or Fintech Infrastructure.
Team Leadership: Experience leading dedicated multi-functional engineering teams and driving alignment across multiple partners to launch net-new platform capabilities.
Technical Fluency: Deep understanding and passion for systems and APIs. You possess the technical depth to interpret complex bank specifications (ISO 20022, NACHA, SWIFT gpi) and translate them into foundational building blocks for engineering.
Developer Empathy: Experience building for a developer audience. You know what makes a great API and how to write clear, compelling user documentation.
Strategic Vision: You can look at a fragmented landscape of legacy banks and modern fintechs and see a path to unification. You are comfortable prioritizing "boring" infrastructure work because you know it drives long-term leverage.

Nice To Haves

Deep expertise in enterprise ERP ecosystems (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics), including middleware and API-layer connectivity patterns that enable real-time treasury data flows across complex, multi-entity environments.
Experience evaluating and expanding proprietary bank and financial institution connectivity with a clear point of view on when to build direct integrations, when to partner, and how to structure that analysis in a way that drives long-term platform leverage over commodity aggregation.
Proven track record building and scaling a developer experience, including API portals, comprehensive documentation, sandbox environments, OAuth/key management, and developer support workflows – creating the kind of ecosystem infrastructure that makes Ripple Treasury the easiest platform to connect to in treasury.
Background in institutional or transaction banking, including payment rails, bank statement formats (MT940, BAI2, CAMT), and the nuances of working with bank connectivity teams across regions.
Familiarity with Money Market Fund (MMF) portals and digital asset custody integrations, with an understanding of how programmable liquidity changes the connectivity model.
Working knowledge of SOC 2, GDPR, and PSD2/Open Banking compliance frameworks as they apply to financial data connectivity and third-party integration governance.

Responsibilities

Lead the Connectivity Team (Pod): Serve as the definitive product owner for a newly formed, dedicated multi-functional engineering team. You will partner closely with engineering leads to build, scale, and maintain our connectivity platform, which is the foundational layer enabling real-time data exchange across banks, ERPs, fund portals, and digital asset networks.
Drive the Core Mandate: Serve as the single product leader accountable for global connectivity coverage, balancing build-vs-integrate decisions to ensure rapid time-to-value for our customers.
API Standardization & Developer Experience: Evangelize an API-first approach within Ripple Treasury. You will manage and streamline developer-facing documentation and materials, ensuring our internal solution teams (Payments, Cash, Accounting) and external partners can easily consume our standard APIs.
Manage Partner SDK Lifecycles: Own the lifecycle management for partner SDKs and third-party connectors, driving deep interoperability with Enterprise ERPs (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite) and Money Market Fund portals.
Expand Bank Channels: Optimize and expand our global banking network, using both standard reporting/payment APIs and our ClearConnect proprietary channels to ensure resilient data exchange across all ingress and egress pathways.
Lead Through Complexity: Proactively resolve conflicts and drive alignment between Engineering, Security, and Banking Partners. You will obsess over the health of the network, driving initiatives to improve uptime, reduce latency, and automate error handling.

Benefits

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