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Product Lead, Employee Data & Lifecycle

Rippling· Product
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San Francisco, CA$174k - $290kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Lead end-to-end roadmap and execution for core employee lifecycle systems (Terminations, Transitions, Employee Apps and HRIS Platform) to scale Rippling's enterprise HRIS and close gaps between SMB success and enterprise leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end roadmap for core employee lifecycle (Terminations, Transitions & Employee Apps and HRIS Platform) systems and surfaces, setting direction, prioritizing high-impact work, and making clear sequencing decisions that balance speed, scale, and correctness
  • Lead the development of critical workflows that power employee changes across their lifecycle, ensuring these flows are intuitive for users while handling the underlying complexity required for accuracy across systems
  • Drive enterprise readiness for high-stakes features by coordinating across partner teams and ensuring seamless interoperability with downstream systems and workflows
  • Set and uphold a high bar for reliability and correctness, treating issues as product failures, driving root cause resolution, and continuously improving system robustness and user trust
  • Define and own success metrics across the product surface, including workflow completion, system performance, reliability, and downstream impact, and use these to inform product strategy and execution
  • Represent your product areas in cross-functional planning and leadership discussions, committing to clear outcomes, proactively identifying risks, and making trade-offs when priorities or constraints shift
  • Operate as the central point of accountability across a distributed engineering team, building strong execution partnerships, driving alignment, and ensuring consistent delivery across time zones
  • Communicate clearly with senior stakeholders, translating complex trade-offs into crisp decisions and ensuring visibility into progress, risks, and impact

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of product management experience, with significant ownership of technically complex, user-facing products in a high-scale environment
  • Strong UX instincts on technically complex surfaces
  • Systems thinking across product surfaces
  • Cross-functional leadership across multiple teams
  • A product-quality view of reliability and performance
  • Strong technical judgment to engage with engineering on data modeling, APIs, and system design
  • AI fluency in day-to-day work and perspective on AI in product
  • Experience in HR, payroll, or other systems of record is a plus, particularly involving data integrity, compliance, and auditability

Skills

Required:Product leadershipUX for complex systemsSystems thinkingCross-functional leadershipReliability and performance mindset

Benefits

  • Competitive salary + benefits + equity
  • Office-based role with in-office expectation (essential function at Rippling)
  • Opportunity to impact enterprise-scale HRIS product
  • Discretionary salary ranges aligned to location
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Rippling eliminates the friction from running a business, combining HR, IT, and Finance apps on a unified data platform.

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