Sr. Director, Data Engineering & Services

ripple•San Francisco, CA, United States•greenhouse
Posted Date:

October 6, 2025

Employment Type:

Not specified

Work Arrangement:

On-site/Hybrid

Skills & Technologies

Engineeringpreferred

Job Description

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:

The Senior Director of Data Services will lead our Data Sciences, Data Engineering, and Data Infrastructure teams to advance Ripple's application development, SaaS operations, business operations, and customer use-case analytics and optimization.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

    • Be an ambitious builder, combining your data sciences, software engineering, machine learning, and AI expertise to build and lead high-performing teams that create world-class data infrastructure, platform data services, and application-specific data components and algorithms
    • Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team, including managers, data scientists, and engineers
    • Provide hands-on technical leadership as a role model for delivering outstanding results to our customers
    • Have a bias towards action and make decisions quickly after considering competing viewpoints
    • Own and deliver the roadmaps of multiple programs while driving technical and operational excellence across the engineering organization
    • Encourage and drive data and engineering best practices
    • Collaborate with stakeholders across Ripple
    • Establish team objectives and quarterly plans in alignment with business and organizational goals
    • Translate technical concepts into tailored content for different audiences, including engineers, business, and technical leaders
    • Scale the team by attracting and mentoring great leaders, data scientists, and engineers at various levels of experience

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

    • 12+ years of hands-on data science and engineering development leadership experience, managing managers and teams of data scientists and engineers
    • Strong leadership and communication skills
    • Hands-on experience building highly scalable distributed systems in modern technology stacks
    • A propensity for hands-on schema design and data parsing/manipulation/analysis via languages such as SQL and Python, spending time writing and/or reviewing code
    • Experience with Agile development with a focus on robust software and database design, scalability, and security
    • Eagerness to work openly and collaboratively with a diverse team, with a positive attitude and a passion for sharing knowledge
    • A technical subject matter expert who provides technical leadership and shares expertise with a growing team of engineers
    • BS in Computer Science or similar
For positions that will be based in CA, the annual salary range for this position is below. Actual salaries may vary based on numerous factors including, among other things, an individual applicant’s experience and qualifications for the position. This range does not include equity or additional compensation, such as bonuses or commissions.
CA Annual Base Salary Range
$280,000—$360,000 USD

WHO WE ARE:

Do Your Best Work

  • The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environm