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 $1.85B+ 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.

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About the role

At Rippling, Design is central to our mission to free smart people to tackle hard problems. We build products that automate the operational complexity of running a business—from HR and payroll to IT and finance—so our customers can focus on what matters most. In a world of fragmented, outdated systems, we’re creating a modern, unified platform where thoughtful design turns complexity into clarity and confidence.

As a Senior Product Design Manager for HRIS and Time, you will lead a team of designers responsible for some of Rippling’s most critical and complex product areas. These products sit at the heart of how companies manage their workforce—from core employee data and compliance to scheduling, time tracking, and workforce operations. The design challenges are inherently complex, requiring you to balance regulatory requirements, operational efficiency, and human-centered experiences across global teams.

You will guide your team in designing end-to-end experiences that scale across diverse customer needs—from HR leaders managing compliance and global expansion to frontline managers scheduling hourly workers in real time. This role requires a leader who thrives in ambiguity, operates with a strong systems mindset, and can elevate both product quality and team performance in a fast-paced, high-impact environment.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a team of product designers across HRIS and Time, driving high-impact work across workforce management, compliance, scheduling, and core employee systems.
• Design and deliver complex, business-critical experiences that are intuitive, scalable, and trustworthy across global and regulatory contexts.
• Define and drive AI-native experiences that radically simplify administrator and employee workflows—leveraging automation, intelligent defaults, and agentic systems to reduce operational overhead.
• Set a high bar for craft, quality, and execution—mentoring designers, providing actionable feedback, and creating an environment where designers do the best work of their careers.
• Drive end-to-end product thinking—from early problem definition and research through execution and iteration—across both 0→1 initiatives and mature product areas.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders to define product strategy, prioritize initiatives, and deliver against ambitious roadmaps.
• Establish and reinforce systems thinking across the team—creating patterns and frameworks that scale across products and ensure consistency across Rippling’s platform.
• Translate complex operational, compliance, and workforce challenges into simple, elegant user experiences for both administrators and employees.
• Champion a deep understanding of customers, especially in high-complexity domains like global HR, compliance, and hourly workforce management.
• Contribute to and evolve Rippling’s design system, ensuring consistency and quality across surfaces while enabling teams to move quickly.
• Drive alignment across teams working on interdependent systems, ensuring cohesive experiences across HRIS, Time, and the broader Rippling platform.

What you will need

• 8+ years of professional product design experience, with 3+ years leading and managing design teams.
• Proven track record of delivering high-impact, customer-facing products in complex domains such as HR, fintech, enterprise software, or workforce management.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and large problem spaces, turning complex systems into intuitive, user-friendly experiences.
• Strong systems thinking, with experience designing across interconnected products or platforms and creating scalable patterns and frameworks.
• Experience defining and shipping AI-native or automation-driven product experiences, including intelligent workflows, decision support, or agentic systems that reduce user effort.
• Experience owning and delivering end-to-end product design—from strategy and roadmap definition through execution and QA.
• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and grow designers across different levels of experience, raising the overall quality bar of the team.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional partners and drive alignment across teams.
• Strong product sense and judgment, with the ability to balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
• A deep customer focus, with experience translating real-world workflows (e.g., HR operations, scheduling, compliance) into effective product experiences.
• A bias toward action and ownership—you thrive in fast-paced environments and are comfortable driving clarity and direction in evolving problem spaces.

Additional Information

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.