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Product Lead, Talent Products

Rippling· Product
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San Francisco, CA, New York, NY$174k - $290kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Product Lead responsible for rethinking the Talent products suite around agent-based workflows, owning vision, strategy, and execution, and leading cross-functional teams to build an AI-enabled talent platform that automates work across headcount planning, recruiting, performance management, learning, and employee surveys.

Responsibilities

  • Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap across headcount planning, recruiting, performance management, learning management, and employee surveys—including how these products work together and where we invest first.
  • Define agentic workflows from the earliest signal that work exists through completion. Build opinionated agents that can identify workforce needs, run recruiting campaigns, triage candidate communications, guide managers through performance decisions, close skill gaps through targeted learning, and turn survey feedback into action—not open-ended prompt boxes that leave the work to the user.
  • Use Rippling's employee graph and cross-product context to build capabilities other talent products cannot. This includes using performance and employee data to improve candidate targeting while preserving permissions, approvals, and auditability.
  • Ship quickly, learn from customers, and scale what works through Rippling's customer base and distribution. Set the quality bar, define success metrics, and build the reliability and controls required by complex customers.
  • Set direction, raise the quality of the team's thinking, and step into the product, data model, or customer conversation when needed.
  • Work closely with engineering (especially AI platform), design, data science, GTM, sales, implementation, and support to launch products that are easy to adopt, sell, service, and trust.
  • Go and see the work firsthand. Build deep relationships with customers, understand where legacy talent products break down, and stay ahead of how AI is changing recruiting and talent management.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of product management experience, or equivalent founder experience, with substantial ownership of a complex product area.
  • A track record of building 0-to-1 products and scaling products after they find traction.
  • AI-native product judgment. You use current AI tools, understand how agents and LLM-based products behave in practice, and have a strong point of view on where autonomy creates real customer value.
  • Strong product and UX instincts. You can turn complex workflows, data, and organizational rules into experiences that feel simple and opinionated.
  • Enough technical depth to work with engineering on data models, agent orchestration, integrations, permissions, and system design without needing translation.
  • Comfort operating at multiple altitudes. You can set the strategy, make hard prioritization calls, and get into details when needed.
  • Self-starter with a bias toward action, high clock speed, and a deep sense of ownership.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with ability to drive alignment across executives and cross-functional teams.
  • Founder or high-growth startup experience is a strong plus. Talent software experience is helpful but not required.
  • Strong alignment with Rippling's leadership principles: Go and See, Push the Limits of Possible, and Are Right, a Lot.

Skills

Required:Product managementAI-native product judgmentUX/product senseTechnical depth in data models and integrationsCross-functional leadership

Benefits

  • Competitive salary + benefits + equity.
  • Office-based role with emphasis on in-office collaboration; role expects three days in the office for employees near Rippling offices.
Last updated Oct 14, 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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