Technical Program Manager, Crypto.

Our client is a multi-strategy investment firm that pursues compelling opportunities in crypto, DeFi, and the open economies they enable. They back early-stage ventures, publicly traded protocols, and everything in between. The firms structure, culture and technology are all designed to maximize flexibility and agility while also remaining dedicated to building for the long run.
We are looking for a results oriented and passionate Technical Program Manager to help build the team and technology to support this tremendous growth.
What youll do;

• Manage multiple projects/programs within a large initiative spanning multiple teams within Ripple focused on Finance and Compliance solutions.
• Drive the culture of quality around software development, release management and operational support.
• Track meaningful metrics to measure progress against goals effectively.
• Communicate with purpose and clarity, bringing together cross functional teams to achieve program objectives.
• Ensure and guide alignment and accountability across all functions involved in the project, while balancing between long and short term priorities.
• Work on design decisions, and drive solutions to highly technical problems.
• Grow relationships between Engineering, Technical Operations, Finance, Legal, and Trading to develop program milestones, track progress, and provide transparency to stakeholders.
• Responsible for end-to-end planning and implementation of complex projects and support of Agile teams.
• Lead and inspire the team by fostering collaboration and a culture of ownership and operational excellence for teams to be at their best.
• Operate as a subject matter expert for the team on topics related to planning, process, execution, reporting, stakeholder management, and goals attainment.

Requirements

• Proficient in software development life-cycle principles, including release management.
• Experience coordinating with geographically diverse teams.
• Ability to manage the operational aspects of ongoing projects independently and serve as liaison between business units.
• Familiar with best-practice approaches towards incident, change, and problem management.
• You thrive on autonomy and responsibility.
• Self-motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills.
• A minimum of 2-5+ years of experience with technical project or program management.
• Proficiency with project management tools: JIRA, Smartsheet, Confluence, or the like.
• Strong oral and written communication skills and the ability to present a polished, professional, and diplomatic image to all stakeholders.
• Experience crafting communication strategies and resource allocation for technical teams.
• Previous experience as Software Engineer and/or Engineering Manager would be a huge plus (not at all required).
• Strong sense of personal responsibility and accountability for delivering high quality work.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, relationship building skills and ability to achieve results without direct reporting relationships.
• Prior experience of developing highly scalable, high impact software.