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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Technical Program Manager - **Company:** Ripple - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Salary:** $240,000 - $290,000 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Software Design Patterns, Scrum Methodology, Blockchain, Atlassian Tools, Ripple (payment Protocol), Functional Programming - **Published:** October 27, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/principal-technical-program-manager-san-francisco-ca--890b184b-e486-4f4b-8dd4-2a3231d96ab6 ## About the Role * 12+ years of technical program management experience leading large-scale, cross-functional programs in sophisticated enterprise technology environments, with a track record of delivering strategic initiatives across multiple organizations. * Ability to use data and analytics to look at trends and lead health of projects and systems. * Shown understanding and working knowledge of software development and modern project management standard processes, such as Agile, Scrum, Six Sigma, etc. * Ability to coordinate multi-functionally, build consensus, and deliver across teams. Able to influence without authority, negotiate, and encourage others in a matrixed environment. * Experience with project planning tools such as Jira and Confluence, and proficiency in Google Sheets. * Experience crafting or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems. * Experience in Payments, Custody, Stablecoin, and/or Blockchain ecosystems. ## Description We're seeking a dedicated, passionate, and eager Principal Technical Program Manager to join our team responsible for leading large cross-functional programs linked to our Products. This role reports to the Head of TPM within Ripple Core. This is a challenging and technical role, requiring the expertise to synthesize business and technical requirements and the foresight to ensure we are solving for Ripple's current and future customer needs. You will work closely with our product and engineering teams to design robust and scalable systems, lead product schedules, remove roadblocks, and ensure high development velocity. Ideal candidates have a track record of seeing around the corner and providing technical leadership to deliver for customers. You will be responsible for high-level strategy, but also know when to get hands-on to push an initiative forward. You must be passionate about enabling teams to invent and deliver customer-focused solutions to bold and ambiguous challenges., * Develop department-level priorities and strategy across strategic product initiatives by understanding our customers and technology deeply. * Reduce ambiguity and risk by proactively identifying and eliminating bottlenecks and obstacles, raising issues strategically, and making sound data-driven decisions that deliver for our customers based on associated trade-offs. * Communicate with purpose and clarity, bringing together cross-functional teams to achieve program objectives. * Be a role model and an inspiring leader for other TPMs. * Create technical frameworks that can be used by engineering teams for decision-making. * Improve the efficiency of Operational Excellence processes across the organization. * Partner with program managers, product managers, and engineering managers to understand development priorities and drive alignment across multiple partners with impactful priorities. * Drive Ripple's most strategic, company-wide initiatives end-to-end, partnering with executive leadership to set direction, secure alignment across business units, and translate company goals into executable multi-quarter programs. * Own outcomes across a portfolio of large programs, anticipating cross-program dependencies and risks, making trade-off calls at the leadership level, and ensuring delivery translates into measurable customer and business impact., * 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!