Senior Staff, Developer Relations

Senior Staff, Developer Relations

About Ripple

Ripple develops infrastructure for moving value across the global financial system using blockchain technology and distributed ledger solutions. The company works with financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers to create financial products that improve efficiency, reduce costs, and expand economic opportunity worldwide. Ripple's mission centers on building reliable, scalable financial infrastructure that can serve real-world institutional needs at scale.

RippleX, Ripple's developer-focused business unit, builds and supports the XRP Ledger ecosystem. The team helps developers, startups, and financial institutions discover, build, and launch applications on the XRPL, with particular emphasis on asset tokenization, institutional DeFi, and next-generation payment systems.

The Role

As Senior Staff, Developer Relations with RippleX's Ecosystem Growth team, you'll lead developer engagement strategies that connect financial innovators with the XRP Ledger. You'll work across individual developers, startups, and institutions to accelerate adoption of XRPL for institutional-grade use cases. Your work will directly shape the growth trajectory of the ecosystem while gathering critical feedback that informs product development and ensuring blockchain technologies are implemented responsibly in financial applications.

What you'll do

• Lead and execute developer engagement strategies focused on financial solutions, tokenization platforms, and payment applications built on XRPL

• Design and track metrics that measure developer success and ecosystem health, including analytics specific to fintech developers and financial institutions

• Develop scalable frameworks that drive developer adoption through both large-scale and personalized approaches

• Organize and facilitate developer events, workshops, and hackathons that demonstrate XRPL capabilities for tokenization and financial innovation

• Create technical documentation including tokenization guides, payment integration tutorials, institutional DeFi best practices, and working code examples

• Present at industry conferences, meetups, and community events about XRPL projects, use cases, and upcoming features

• Provide direct technical assistance to help financial companies and startups integrate with XRPL

• Review and support technical evaluations for projects participating in Grants and Accelerator programs

• Collaborate with GTM, Product, Engineering, Communications, and Marketing teams to align on ecosystem growth priorities

• Translate developer feedback into actionable product insights and communicate financial developer needs to leadership

• Guide developers on regulatory compliance and institutional-grade security practices for financial applications

What you'll bring

• Five or more years of experience in developer relations, developer experience, or technical product roles with a proven track record of growing developer ecosystems

• Strong understanding of financial instruments, market structure, collateral management, and how tokenization and digital assets can improve capital efficiency

• Technical competency that allows you to understand complex concepts and explain them clearly to diverse audiences from individual developers to enterprise partners

• Hands-on technical skills including the ability to write code demos, review developer work, and provide specific technical guidance

• Deep knowledge of developer psychology and the ability to build authentic product affinity through targeted education and community engagement

• Collaborative approach to working across teams and at multiple organizational levels

• Experience thriving in high-growth environments where priorities shift and you adapt quickly

• Willingness and ability to travel globally for meetings and events as needed

Nice to have

• Background with blockchain technologies, APIs, developer platforms, or emerging financial technologies

• Experience building developer communities around new technology categories, particularly in fintech or blockchain

• Familiarity with open-source ecosystems and collaborative development practices

• Public speaking experience at fintech or blockchain industry conferences

• Content creation experience such as technical writing, video tutorials, or financial application documentation

• Knowledge of tokenization standards, institutional DeFi protocols, and digital asset infrastructure