Ripple is hiring a

Web3 Technical Services Manager, Americas and Europe

As Technical Services Manager, Americas and Europe you will be leading a distributed team responsible for providing first-class service and support for our financial institution and payment provider customers using Ripple’s mission-critical service to make payments around the globe. In your role you will directly work with our customers and coordinate with Ripple’s Product Management & Engineering teams to troubleshoot, replicate, and resolve issues to our customers satisfaction.

You will provide oversight and guidance to your team to analyze and resolve challenging technical issues all the while keeping key stakeholders informed and up to date on the situation. You will engage all levels of the Ripple organisation as appropriate from Project Management, Integration, Engineering, and our Leadership team, in order to own and drive customer issues to resolution in a timely manner. You will play a key role in defining production support and oversight arrangements for Ripple customers so that the risk of service interruption is reduced. These activities will be instrumental in ensuring a smooth and reliable production experience for all users of Ripple technology.

What you'll do:

• Build and scale a world-class global support practice. Enhance and adhere to a world-class set of operational procedures and policies for mission-critical production support on a peer-to-peer payments network, and continually review & improve on these on an ongoing basis.
• Manage the interaction and communication with our customers and the delivery teams regarding issue management, escalations and coordination with engineering teams.
• Define and execute multiple concurrent cross-team projects such as customer upgrades, issue prioritization and roadmapping with Product Management, and issue alerts to delivery teams and customers.
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to shape communication within Ripple in addition to communicating with our customers.
• Provide exceptional customer service for all client technology issues through proactive solutions and a hands-on approach, which will lead the team to great success and growth – in turn helping to fuel the tremendous growth of Ripple as well.
• Act as a coach and mentor to junior members on your team.

What you might look like:

• Experience managing support for an API-based cloud platform.
• 7+ years of increasingly responsible professional experience in supporting/managing complex & managing a support practice.
• Excellent leadership and decision-making capabilities and able to be highly effective in demanding situations.
• Proven experience building and managing large teams.
• A strong sense of ownership, and empathetic attitude that “the customers’ problem is my problem”.
• Experience Building & Managing a Worldwide team that works around the clock.
• At least 4 years of technical experience in a supervisory or management capacity.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills is a must.
• Knowledge of, and experience working with, industry data standards e.g. in Banking (ACH, SWIFT, SEPA, etc.) is a plus.
• Strong collaboration skills to partner with internal Product and Engineering teams as well as external customers in an agile environment.
• The ability to communicate your knowledge of enterprise level, commercially available hardware and software products, operating systems, networking systems, and methodologies for integrating web-based products.
• Functional understanding of payment flows & cross border payment processing and experience with digital assets a plus

WHAT WE OFFER:

• The chance to work 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
• Competitive salary and equity
• 100% paid medical and dental and 95% paid vision insurance for employees starting on your first day
• 401k (with match), commuter benefits
• Industry-leading parental leave policies
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite programs
• Flexible vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it
• Employee giving match
• Modern office in San Francisco’s Financial District
• Fully-stocked kitchen with organic snacks, beverages, and coffee drinks
• Weekly company meeting - ask me anything >
• Team outings to sports games, happy hours, game nights and more!

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