About the role

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the

workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company—like payroll, expenses,

benefits, and computers—so that for the first time, companies can manage and automate every

part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

As a Product Design Lead, you will take ownership of a critical product vertical, driving it from

0-1 concept to shipped reality. You will be responsible for transforming deep administrative

complexity into elegant, simple workflows that feel effortless for employees while providing total

control for admins. You won’t just move pixels; you will define long-term strategy, partner with

world-class engineers and PMs, and set the bar for craft and systems thinking across the entire

Rippling ecosystem.

What You Will Do

Strategy & Vision: Collaborate with cross-functional leadership to define the long-term roadmap and short-term tactics for your product area.
End-to-End Design: Lead the design of complex, high-impact products from initial research and wireframing to high-fidelity prototyping and QA.
Systems Thinking: Develop scalable design frameworks and primitives that maintain coherence across Rippling’s unified platform.
Research & Insight: Partner with UX Research to deeply understand user pain points and translate those findings into intuitive product decisions.
Craft Leadership: Participate in design reviews, mentor other designers, and champion a "consumer-grade" quality bar for enterprise software.

What You Will Need

Experience: 8+ years of professional product design experience, with a track record of shipping complex products in demanding domains (e.g., Fintech, SaaS, Enterprise).
Complexity Management: A proven ability to simplify messy, ambiguous problems into intuitive, build-ready specifications.

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.

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