Ripple is looking to grow its developer ecosystem and drive adoption of its crypto solutions, specifically the XRP Ledger (XRPL), for financial institutions, businesses, and governments. The goal is to enable these entities to build transformative financial applications, including asset tokenization, institutional DeFi, and next-generation payment infrastructure, thereby improving the global financial system.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience building and leading developer relations, developer experience, or technical product teams, with a proven track record of measurably growing developer ecosystems
- Deep understanding of financial instruments and market structure (equities, bonds, repos, collateralized lending, etc.). Strong grasp of collateral management, capital efficiency, and how DeFi can impact these processes. Familiarity with regulatory frameworks and how they relate to tokenization and digital asset adoption
- Technical credibility with the ability to deeply understand complex technical concepts and translate them for various audiences ranging from individual developers to enterprise executives
- Deep insight into developer psychology and behavior—knowing how to reach developers through the right channels, build authentic affinity for products, and design education programs that drive meaningful adoption
- Hands-on technical abilities—capable of creating your own code demos, critically reviewing developer samples for quality and best practices and providing specific technical feedback
- Experience working with blockchain technologies, APIs, developer platforms, or emerging financial technologies
- Background in building developer communities around new technology categories, particularly in fintech or blockchain
Responsibilities
- Own and develop the strategy for how developers build financial solutions, tokenization platforms, and payment applications on XRPL
- Create frameworks for measuring developer success that align with business objectives, including analytics for fintech developers and financial institutions
- Build scalable and systematic frameworks to accelerate developer adoption through both one-to-many and one-to-one strategies
- Organize high-impact developer events, group learning sessions, workshops, and hackathons that showcase XRPL's capabilities for tokenization and financial innovation
- Generate technical content including tokenization guides, payment integration tutorials, institutional DeFi standard methodologies, and code demos
- Speak at conferences, meetups, events, and private seminars about XRPL use cases, projects, and upcoming products and features
- Provide hands-on technical support to accelerate integration for financial companies and startups
Other
- Recruit and scale a high-impact global developer relations team with representation across key financial hubs and emerging tokenization markets
- Foster a collaborative culture internally with GTM, Product, Engineering, Communications, and Marketing teams as well as external partners and the broader XRPL community
- Act as the primary advocate for financial developer needs at the executive level, translating feedback into strategic initiatives
- Champion best practices for regulatory compliance and institutional-grade security adoption by developers building financial applications
- Collect feedback to inform product roadmaps while serving as a technical liaison between developers, funded financial projects, and Ripple's product and engineering teams
