Director, Technical Services 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><p>As Director, Technical Services 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 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 and Engineering teams to troubleshoot, replicate, and resolve issues to our customers satisfaction.</p> <p>You will lead a distributed team, with four regional managers reporting to you, to provide global 24/7 coverage. You will engage all levels of the Ripple organization as appropriate from Project Management, Integration, Engineering, and our Leadership team, providing the voice of the customer to help prioritize company initiatives, processes, and product enhancements. 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.</p> <h2><strong>What you'll do:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Build and scale a world-class global support practice. Enhance and adhere to a world-class set of operational procedures and policies for critical production support on a peer-to-peer payments network, and continually review and improve on these on an ongoing basis.</li> <li>Define and manage the team interaction and communication with our customers and the delivery teams regarding issue management, customer concerns and coordination with engineering teams.</li> <li>Define and complete multiple concurrent cross-team projects such as customer upgrades, issue prioritization and roadmapping with Product Management, and issue alerts to delivery teams and customers.</li> <li>Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to shape communication within Ripple in addition to communicating with our VIP customers.</li> <li>Lead the team to great success and