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Director of Engineering, HRIS Core Flows

Rippling· Engineering
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San Francisco, CA$216k - $378kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Engineering Director leading a 15-person organization responsible for employee transitions, terminations, and AI-assisted HR workflow charter within Rippling HRIS core flows.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a combined 15-person team, including managers, senior ICs, and emerging leaders as the organization evolves.
  • Clarify ownership, decision rights, quality bars, and operating rhythms across the Transition & Termination and Agentic HRBP charters.
  • Hire and retain exceptional talent, raise the leadership bench, and create an environment where product, design, data, AI, and engineering operate as one team.
  • Represent the charter in company-level planning and make clear trade-offs across near-term customer commitments, foundational investments, and long-term bets.
  • Define the product and technical strategy for an Agentic HRBP that helps customers reason about, prepare, approve, and execute employee changes.
  • Move beyond a conversational front end: connect agents to durable workflow execution, company policy, employee context, permissions, approvals, and observable outcomes.
  • Establish the trust model for high-stakes actions, including clear user intent, human checkpoints where appropriate, explainability, safe failure modes, and complete audit trails.
  • Create a reusable approach that accelerates new agentic use cases instead of producing one-off demos or brittle automations.
  • Make Transition & Termination dependable for large, complex companies across organization structures, employment types, countries, policies, and connected systems.
  • Raise the bar for performance, availability, correctness, bulk operations, observability, and recovery across synchronous and asynchronous work.
  • Modernize the underlying architecture while continuing to deliver customer-facing improvements; sequence the work so the transformation creates leverage rather than a prolonged rewrite.

Qualifications

  • Experience as an Engineering Director or equivalent leader overseeing a multi-team product engineering organization.
  • Experience leading through managers and senior technical leaders, with a track record of developing leadership capacity rather than becoming the decision bottleneck.
  • Experience owning high-stakes, workflow-heavy products or platforms where correctness, permissions, policy, auditability, and integrations matter.
  • Experience scaling products for complex enterprise customers, including operational edge cases and cross-functional dependencies.
  • Strong product judgment and technical depth, including the ability to evaluate architecture, sequencing, migration risk, and platform investment trade-offs.
  • Experience delivering a major product or system transformation while continuing to ship customer-facing improvements.
  • Experience with AI agents, AI-assisted workflows, decision automation, workflow orchestration, or intelligent enterprise products.
  • Experience with HR, payroll, benefits, IT, identity, finance, compliance, or other employee-system domains.
  • Experience with global products that must support country-specific policies, permissions, localization, and audit requirements.
  • Experience building platforms for bulk operations, asynchronous workflows, observability, and recovery.

Skills

Required:Engineering leadershipProduct strategy for AI-assisted workflowsHigh-stakes workflow systems

Benefits

  • Competitive salary + benefits + equity.
  • Office-based role with expectation of in-office presence (essential function for employees living within defined radius of Rippling office).
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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