Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Information Security

As a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager for Information Security at Ripple, you will lead the company's Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) migration program. This is a challenging, technical role requiring you to synthesize business and technical requirements and ensure Ripple solves for its current and future security needs ahead of Q-Day. You will work across 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 high-level strategy while remaining hands-on to push initiatives forward.

What you'll do

• Drive end-to-end execution of Ripple's PQC program, from cryptographic asset inventory through risk prioritization, tradeoff analysis, and migration execution, against a Q-Day-readiness target of end of 2028
• Stand up and own a cross-organizational 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 based on tradeoffs
• Communicate program status, risk, and progress to engineering leadership and executive sponsors, including maintaining the program dashboard reviewed monthly by executives
• Be a role model and inspiring leader for other Technical Program Managers
• Create technical frameworks that engineering teams can use for decision-making
• Influence and improve the efficiency of Operational Excellence processes organization-wide
• Partner with program managers, product managers, and engineering managers to understand development priorities and drive alignment across multiple partners
• 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 bring

• 10+ years of program management experience on initiatives involving sophisticated enterprise tech environments, working directly with teams across multiple functions
• Solid understanding of cryptographic fundamentals (asymmetric and symmetric ciphers, hashing, digital signatures) sufficient to synthesize technical tradeoffs with engineering and InfoSec stakeholders
• Ability to use data and analytics to assess project and system health and identify trends
• Ability to coordinate cross-functionally, build consensus, and execute across teams; ability 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 new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling

Nice to have

• Prior exposure to Post-Quantum Cryptography, cryptographic migrations, or security and compliance-driven technical programs
• Experience in Payments, Custody, Stablecoin, and/or Blockchain ecosystems

What we offer

• Annual base salary range of $216,000-$270,000 USD (for positions based in California)
• Competitive bonuses and equity
• Comprehensive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
• Professional development budget
• Mobile phone stipend
• Employee giving match
• Rest and recharge days
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite and virtual programming
• Generous vacation policy with manager discretion
• Industry-leading parental leave policies and family planning benefits
• In-office collaboration with flexibility to decide which 10+ days per month you come in
• Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens, and team events

About Ripple

Ripple is building infrastructure to move value like information does today. Through crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers, Ripple improves the global financial system and creates greater economic opportunity worldwide.