Senior Staff, Developer Relations

At Ripple, we’re building a world where value moves like information does today. It’s big, it’s bold, and we’re already doing it. Through our crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers, we are improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity for more people, in more places around the world. And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs. If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value. THE WORK: As Senior Staff, Developer Relations in the RippleX Ecosystem Growth team, you will play a key role in helping developers discover, onboard, build, and scale financial applications on the XRP Ledger (XRPL). Directly support businesses, institutions, and governments in using XRPL's capabilities for financial innovation, contributing to adoption for institutional-grade use cases, including asset tokenization, Institutional DeFi, and next-generation payment infrastructure. This role is critical to growing our developer ecosystem, gathering valuable feedback to inform XRPL product development, and ensuring blockchain technologies are implemented responsibly across diverse financial implementations. You'll deliver on developer experience initiatives for individual developers, startups, and institutions. Your success in this role will directly contribute to XRPL's growth trajectory and market position while ensuring blockchain technologies are implemented responsibly across financial use cases. Building strong relationships between the developer community and internal teams will be critical as we advance our mission of crafting reliable, scalable financial infrastructure that serves real-world institutional needs. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Lead developer engagement strategies for financial solutions, tokenization platforms, and payment applications on XRPL Implement and measure metrics for measuring developer success that align with business objectives, including analytics for fintech developers and financial institutions Contribute to scalable frameworks that accelerate developer adoption through both one-to-many and one-to-one strategies Organize and lead developer events, workshops, and hackathons that showcase XRPL's capabilities for tokenization and financial innovation Create technical content including tokenization guides, payment integration tutorials, institutional DeFi best practices, and code demos Speak at conferences, meetups, and events about XRPL use cases, projects, and upcoming products and features Provide hands-on technical support to accelerate integration for financial companies and startups Support technical evaluation and due diligence for projects through various Ecosystem Growth Programs such as Grants and Accelerator initiatives Implement and monitor adoption mechanisms and reporting structures to demonstrate success and traction Support recruitment and development of global developer relations team members Collaborate effectively with GTM, Product, Engineering, Communications, and Marketing teams as well as external partners and the broader XRPL community Advocate for financial developer needs and translate feedback into actionable insights for leadership Promote best practices for regulatory compliance and institutional-grade security adoption by developers building financial applications Collect and synthesize feedback to inform product roadmaps while serving as a technical liaison between developers, funded financial projects, and Ripple's product and engineering teams! WHAT YOU'LL BRING: 5+ years of proven track record in developer relations, developer experience, or technical product roles, with demonstrated success in growing developer ecosystems Institutional Finance Understanding: Strong understanding of financial instruments and market stru