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.
