About the role
About the Data Cloud Team Rippling Data Cloud is a new suite of products that aggregates data from across your company into Rippling, connects it to worker identity, and makes it available for analysis, visualization and action. It preserves and enriches data context to enable precise and accurate answers to your most important and nuanced business questions. It's a complete data stack including data connectors, transformations, visualizations, AI-powered analytics, and even inbound Zero-Copy. It understands how all of that data relates to employees, managers, departments, locations, cost centers, permissions, and historical changes in your ever-changing business. That makes it possible to ask questions that traditional BI systems struggle to answer correctly. Data Cloud as the foundation for Rippling AI Data Cloud and AI are deeply connected in Rippling. Data Cloud is the data infrastructure layer that powers Rippling AI. Here's how they relate: Data Cloud provides the unified data that AI reasons over: Rippling AI leverages the Employee Graph and all platform data (payroll rules, earnings types, deduction logic, permissions, etc.) as its source of truthBecause Rippling is a unified platform rather than stitched-together acquisitions, the data is clean, consistent, and complete which makes AI answers accurate and context-awareAI respects the same permissions model as the rest of the platform, so it only surfaces data the user is authorized to see The Rippling AI unlocks advanced Data Cloud capabilities: AI Dashboards: build dashboards from scratch using natural language prompts Transformations: full publish access Pipelines: ingest data via managed connectors Lineage & Catalog: explore data lineage for reports Advanced features: parameters, SQL queries, and the ability to incorporate third-party data Why this matters Most HR/Finance systems weren't built for AI. Their data is messy and fragmented. Rippling AI is described as the first "context-aware, senior analyst" for HR and Finance teams because it sits on top of a unified data model (Data Cloud + Employee Graph) that actually understands your business logic end-to-end. What We Build
