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Sr. Product Design Manager – HRIS | India Design Site Lead

Rippling· Design
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Hybrid (Bangalore)Full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Product Design Manager for HRIS and India Site Lead at Rippling, leading a team of ~6 designers for HCM and HRIS while serving as the India design site lead supporting an additional ~5 designers across Payroll, Finance, and Platform.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a team of product designers across the HCM product suite, driving high-impact work across HR, Talent, Benefits, and Workforce Management.
  • 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.
  • Serve as the India Site Lead for Design, fostering a vibrant local office culture, driving team collaboration, and providing site-wide operational leadership.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of professional product design experience, with 5+ years leading and managing design teams.
  • Proven track record of delivering high-impact, customer-facing products in complex domains such as HCM/HRIS, 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.
  • Strong leadership presence with the ability to manage site operations and cultivate a high-performing design community in the India office.

Skills

Required:Product design leadershipSystems thinkingAI-native / automation-driven product designEnd-to-end product design
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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