Senior Ecosystem Growth Manager

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**:
Ripple is a crypto solutions company transforming how the world moves, manages, and tokenizes value. Through RippleX, we support and champion an open community of developers on XRP Ledger (XRPL), so they can advance the solutions and innovation needed to allow businesses, consumers, institutions, and governments to fuel the engine of a new digital economy.

RippleX's developer growth team focuses on supporting the growth and engagement of the XRPL developer community globally - from onboarding and education, to community building, to project formation and startup acceleration. This year, RippleX is focused on expanding the XRPL community into new regions and local markets - taking RX's existing programs like hackathons, grants, accelerators, and replicating them.

As the Senior Ecosystem Growth Manager, you'll be instrumental in facilitating the expansion of these programs into new geographies. You'll set the overall structure for what these local XRPL communities will look like and build the network of local partners who can help execute on these strategies. You'll execute on these strategies in order to generate awareness of the XRPL technology and ecosystem, and work cross-functionally internally and with external partners to onboard new developers and projects into the XRPL ecosystem.

**WHAT YOU'LL DO**:

- Manage and coordinate across GTM strategies for engaging developers in new prioritized geographies, acting as the execution lead in various markets
- Develop relationships with external partners both within and outside web3, working with these partners to establish thriving local XRPL ecosystems
- Drive the outreach to Web3 communities and partners to help promote and partner on existing programs like XRPL Zone, Apex, and other XPRL events
- Conduct industry research, present findings and insights clearly and concisely to the cross functional team
- Set up systems and processes to ensure successful community building and participation
- Work closely with design, marketing, and product teams to ensure alignment and focus on community-building activities
- Monitor trends to advise on ecosystem opportunities and risks
- Oversee daily operations including logistics, scheduling, and onboarding programs

**WHAT YOU'LL BRING**:

- **Proven Experience in Web3 Community Building**:Experience building Web3 communities and an existing network to tap into, passion for building blockchain communities and entrepreneurial ecosystems
- **Entrepreneurial Mindset and Strategic Thinking**: Skilled at working through iterative cycles to test, learn and refine new initiatives until they meet the business objective; ability to be both creative and strategic
- **Strong Program Management Skills**: Experience taking a strategy from inception to execution; proven ability to manage end-to-end programs with mínimal supervision
- **Cross-Functional Skills**:Excellent at collaborating with and influencing many contributors, managing different opinions and stakeholders, and driving toward a unified decision
- **Communication Skills**: Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
- **International Expansion**: Bonus points for experience driving international expansion at high-growth startups
- Proactive self starter, energetic and relentless in the pursuit of moving the needle
- Serious attention to detail and a commitment to excellence
- Prior experience working in a fast-paced, high-intensity start-up environment

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**WHO WE ARE**:
Do Your Best Work
- The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
- A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact. A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
- Thrive in an environment where no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
- Ripple is Flexible First: in-office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture, and we give managers and teams the flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month they come in.
- Weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team
- We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bondi