Rippling · 3 hours ago
Product Design Lead, Core Experience
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$165K/yr - $289K/yr
8+ years expRippling is a company that provides a unified platform for HR, IT, and Finance, enabling businesses to manage their workforce systems seamlessly. The Product Design Lead will be responsible for shaping the core experience of Rippling by designing foundational elements and improving cross-product workflows, while also driving strategic design priorities based on customer insights.
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Responsibilities
Design the end‑to‑end foundations of Rippling’s core experience—Home, navigation, flow integrations—crafting systems that are fast, scalable, and radically simple
Get close to customers, understand how they actually work across products, spot where cross‑product workflows break, and turn those insights into strategic design priorities that drive real business impact
Anticipate future needs and edge cases, designing solutions that scale as we expand into new markets and increasingly complex global scenarios
Develop and evolve a shared information architecture, aligning taxonomy, nomenclature, and navigation across subsystems
Deeply understand each of Rippling’s subsystems and connect the dots—leading cogent design updates that steer our experience strategy
Drive organizational alignment by communicating crisp narratives and frameworks; move challenging decisions through the organization to affect change
Introduce and normalize modern SaaS conventions and next‑gen, agentic workflows that elevate quality and accelerate the pace of innovation
Qualification
Required
8+ years of end‑to‑end product design experience, with a portfolio of complex, high‑impact products delivered from initial concept through iteration and delivery
Proven ability to think in systems and simplify complexity, with experience designing in challenging domains or compliance‑heavy environments
Exceptional visual and interaction craft with impeccable taste—the ability to produce clear, detailed specifications and contribute to the development of our design system
Excellent communication and storytelling skills—an excellent communicator who is relentless in driving innovation and alignment across partners and levels
Relentless customer focus, backed by a habit of digging into real behavior, identifying pain points, and designing solutions that solve meaningful problems
A bias toward action, especially in ambiguous or fast‑moving environments—you have a track record of generating many ideas, iterating quickly, unblocking dependencies, and owning timelines without daily oversight
A portfolio where the execution quality speaks for itself—your shipped work sets the bar for craft, clarity, and impact
A proven track record of moving challenging decisions through an organization to affect change, influencing cross‑functionally and at multiple levels
Benefits
Competitive salary
Benefits
Equity
Company
Rippling
Rippling is a workforce management platform that unifies HR, IT, and finance operations into a single system.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (2)
2024 (42)
2023 (70)
2022 (81)
2021 (33)
2020 (6)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$2.44BKey Investors
CoatueGreenoaksFounders Fund
2025-05-09Series G· $450M
2024-04-22Series F· $200M
2024-04-22Secondary Market· $590M
Leadership Team
Parker Conrad
Co-Founder and CEO
Albert Strasheim
Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
2025-12-29
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