About the role
Product Lead, Employee lifecycle & HRIS Platform Product Lead, Employee lifecycle & HRIS Platform About Rippling 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. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system. Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer,
benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds. Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes. We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @ Rippling.com addresses.
About
the role Rippling’s employee graph is the backbone of every product. The Employee Lifecycle team owns the moments when that graph changes—role transitions, profile updates, and terminations—as well as the core surfaces where admins and employees interact with that data. As a Product Lead, you will own the systems that define and update employee data across its lifecycle. This includes building and scaling workflows that handle key employee changes such as role transitions and offboarding, while ensuring these changes are accurate, reliable, and reflected consistently across systems. You’ll also own the primary surfaces where this data is viewed and managed, shaping a simple, unified experience that makes employee information easy to understand, safe to update, and auditable over time. This role requires thinking across a wide range of company sizes and use cases, from small teams to large, complex organizations. You will design workflows that support both individual actions and high-volume operations, ensuring performance and reliability at scale. A core part of
