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the role Rippling's Contractor product powers how tens of thousands of businesses hire, onboard, manage, and pay contractors around the world—from independent domestic workers to international contractors hired through Rippling's own Contractor of Record offering. We are looking for a Product Lead to own the full contractor experience: the invoicing and payment flows, the AI-powered hiring and management tools, the self-serve onboarding motions, and the end-to-end lifecycle from first hire to final paycheck. This role sits at the intersection of HRIS, Payroll, Time & Attendance, Compliance, and Payments. Contractors span dozens of countries, payment methods, and classification regimes. You'll need to simplify that complexity into an experience that feels fast and effortless for customers—while ensuring it's bulletproof for legal, finance, and ops teams on the back end. What role do Product Managers play at Rippling? The product team owns Rippling's product direction, defining what to build in order to solve customer problems in a way that allows them to succeed. We do this by intimately understanding the market, our customers, and the perspectives of our key stakeholders and synthesizing that into a product that is effective, efficient, and easy to use. What you will do Own the product vision and roadmap for Rippling's Global Contractors product – from hiring and onboarding to invoicing, payment, transitions, and termination Build and scale AI-first capabilities for contractor management, including AI Assistant and agentic powered invoice creation, hiring, compliance decisions, offboarding and to create the worlds most intelligent contractor platform Drive the Contractor of Record (CoR) product, enabling customers to hire international and domestic contractors through Rippling's own entity Design and improve invoice and payment flows, including state management, approval workflows, and integrations with Balance and global payment rails Build self-serve onboarding and SKU purchasing flows that let customers go from signup to first contractor hire in just a few minutes Own the contractor mobile experience, giving contractors the visibility and control over their client relationships from any surface Work cross-functionally across engineering, legal, compliance, operations, and finance to navigate classification risk, international regulatory
requirements, and payment complexity Partner closely with engineering teams, diving deeply into the technical details of every solution—understanding contractor states, invoice states, and payment flows at the system level Define and maintain a clear product roadmap informed by customer needs, competitive dynamics, and Rippling's platform strategy What you will need 8+ years of product management or founding experience Self-starter with a bias towards action and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment Willingness to work on multiple products and features at once, across teams Ability to go deep technically—comfortable reading specs, understanding data models, and diving into the details of payment flows, invoice states, and lifecycle logic Deep analytical and problem-solving skills, with a track record of turning complexity into simplicity for customers Exceptional interpersonal communication and organizational skills Strong ability to motivate and inspire people to do their best work Relentlessly focused on customers' needs Strong alignment with Rippling's leadership principles, particularly "Push the limits of possible," "Challenge each other directly," and "Go and see"
Why Join Rippling You'll own one of Rippling's fastest-growing product areas at a moment of significant investment and competitive ambition. Contractors are a strategic wedge into new customer segments, a proving ground for Rippling's AI capabilities, and the backbone of the company's international expansion. You'll have a large, capable engineering team, a clear roadmap, and the chance to build the category-defining contractor platform.
Rippling is a workforce management system that eliminates the friction from running a business. Today, most companies struggle with everything from routine tasks, like running payroll, to cross-functional planning, like aligning on headcount. That’s because all their data related to people, processes, and systems is scattered in a hundred places.
Rippling has every application you need to run your business—from applicant tracking and payroll to IT and expenses—in one place. But unlike other systems, Rippling sits on top of a unified platform. Data flows dynamically between Rippling’s applications, giving every team a shared source of truth, the power to automate processes, and access to the insights they need. This allows your business to execute better, faster.
Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.2B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock.
Salary
$5,000 - $25,000
Location
Bangalore, India
Experience
7+ years
Total raised
$1.2B
Last stage
Series E Plus
Investors
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