Manager, Technical Recruiting

As Manager of Technical Recruiting at Ripple, you lead the technical recruiting function while carrying your own requisition load. You partner directly with engineering and tech leaders to source and close critical roles across software engineers, blockchain and protocol engineers, security, SRE/infrastructure, data, and engineering leadership. This is a player-coach role where you build and coach a team of contract technical recruiters while personally owning Ripple's most strategic searches.

What you'll do

• Build a contract recruiting team that performs like a top in-house team, setting a high bar, assigning searches by domain and capacity, coaching on sourcing and closing, running pipeline reviews that lead to action, and making direct calls on who stays, who grows, and who rolls off.
• Personally own Ripple's most critical technical searches, including Staff+ and Principal engineers, engineering leaders, and domain specialists in protocol, distributed systems, security, and infrastructure, driving them from first outreach to signed offer.
• Partner with engineering and technical leaders when a search is stuck, using funnel data, market signals, and candidate feedback to diagnose the issue and pivot strategy quickly to get hiring back on track.
• Build pipelines in open source communities, GitHub, protocol and developer forums, conferences, academic labs, and engineering referral networks, treating sourcing as an always-on advantage.
• Partner with technical and engineering leaders to design structured interview loops, calibrate what great looks like for each role, and maintain rigorous evaluation standards grounded in evidence.
• Find where AI can measurably improve sourcing, market research, outreach, and screening prep, running focused pilots against a clear baseline, scaling what works, and dropping what doesn't.
• Turn your best sourcing strategies, closing approaches, and search playbooks into repeatable standard practices for the wider technical recruiting team.
• Feed hiring capacity planning, manage agency and contractor spend for cost and results, and bring leadership data-backed recommendations on tradeoffs.
• Maintain consistent process, accurate data in the ATS, and full EEO/AA compliance across the team.

What you bring

• 8+ years in recruitment with a heavy focus on software engineers and broader technical talent within tech, fintech, or crypto, with a proven track record of creative problem-solving to source top-tier talent in highly competitive markets.
• A track record of closing the searches that matter most: you've hired Staff+ and Principal engineers, technical leaders, and narrow specialists in distributed systems, security, infrastructure, protocol, or blockchain.
• Proven resilience and grit when facing hard-to-fill searches, proactively pivoting strategy to uncover new solutions rather than waiting for the market to shift.
• Credibility with engineers: you understand the technical work well enough to distinguish strong candidates from those who just list buzzwords, and senior engineers take your calls because you're worth talking to.
• Experience leading other recruiters while carrying a full req load, where both sides deliver: you've set expectations for contract or external recruiters, run pipeline reviews, given direct feedback, and measurably improved their output.
• You run off recruiting data: you've used funnel data such as pass-through rates, source quality, time in stage, and decline reasons to diagnose why a search was stuck, changed your approach, and shown the change worked.
• You find talent where others don't look: open source contributors, conference speakers, niche forums, academic labs, and overlooked referral networks. You've built pipelines from scratch with little budget or tooling.
• You elevate how the team operates: you've successfully revamped interview processes, implemented new sourcing tools or automations, or raised candidate quality bars, backed by clear, data-driven outcomes.
• Fluency with ATS tools such as Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut or similar, plus working knowledge of EEO/AA and hiring compliance.
• A clear point of view on AI in recruiting backed by results: you've used AI tools to get better hiring outcomes, not just move faster, and you know where AI adds leverage and where it creates noise, bias, or a worse candidate experience.

What we offer

• Annual base salary for California positions: $165,000-$185,000 USD, plus equity and additional compensation such as bonuses.
• Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support.
• Professional development budget to support learning.
• In-office collaboration flexibility: managers and teams decide which 10+ days a month they come in.
• R&R days to rest and recharge.
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite and virtual programming.
• Generous vacation policy to take time off when you need it.
• Industry-leading parental leave policies and family planning benefits.
• Employee giving match and mobile phone stipend.
• Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks and beverages, and team offsites and bonding activities.

About Ripple

Ripple builds crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers to improve the global financial system and create greater economic fairness and opportunity worldwide.