Director, Ecosystem Growth at Ripple Labs

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.</span></p></div><div> <p><strong>THE WORK:</strong></p> <p>RippleX is building a global, multi-entity ecosystem to drive XRPL adoption at scale. This role leads strategic partnerships with independent ecosystem operators across the US, Europe, APAC, and emerging markets, while guiding DeFi strategy through dedicated external partners!</p> <p>This is a senior, strategic, and hands-on position requiring strong partnership management, DeFi fluency, and the ability to set milestones, drive accountability, and align partner outputs across regions.</p> <p><strong>WHAT YOU’LL DO:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Ecosystem Partner Management</li> <ul> <li>Manages a portfolio of independent ecosystem partners delivering programs and developer initiatives.</li> <li>Sets milestones, impact goals, and accountability rhythms.</li> <li>Reviews progress, identifies gaps, and ensures alignment with ecosystem priorities.</li> </ul> <li>DeFi Ecosystem Management and Development</li> <ul> <li>Manage partnerships to support the evaluation of DeFi teams with a strong understanding of AMMs, DEXs, stablecoins, incentives, and liquidity behavior.</li> <li>Manage partners to help shape milestone and incentive structures that support DeFi development.</li> <li>Oversee DeFi initiatives with market structure needs, including liquidity depth, market making, and OTC flows.</li> </ul> <li>Startup and Builder Growth</li> <ul> <li>Builds a strong pipeline of developers, founders, and partners.</li> <li>Engages with communities, events, and industry groups to drive adoption.</li> <li>Supports teams from ideation through integration and launch.</li> <li>Creates milestone frameworks and incentive logic for ecosystem partners.</li> <li>Runs evaluation cycles and ensures partners stay on track.</li> <li>Provides milestone structure to incorporate into formal agreements.</li> </ul> <li>Ecosyst