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Senior Director of Product, App Platform

Rippling· Product
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$201k - $335kfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior leadership role owning Rippling's App Platform and Object Graph, defining strategy for building applications on Rippling and modeling company data, leading developers-focused product with AI-native workflows, and building a scalable platform for internal and external developers.

Responsibilities

  • Set the App Platform strategy. Define how Rippling’s app primitives come together into a scalable developer platform that enables internal and external developers to build software for Rippling customers.
  • Lead the Object Graph and Object Platform roadmap. Scale the shared model of a company – the people, resources, and relationships that Rippling applications are built on – so developers can build apps that operate across all functions within a company.
  • Make developers the customer. Design for developers with an AI-native developer experience across the spectrum of building, deploying, and operating production software.
  • Build and lead the team. Hire, coach, and develop product leaders for a broad, technically complex, and strategically important product area.
  • Drive ecosystem impact. Own the foundation for third-party developers to build and sell software on Rippling.

Qualifications

  • 12+ years building and leading technical products or platforms in engineering, product management, or both.
  • Experience leading a developer platform used by both internal and external developers, including turning internal capabilities into an external product.
  • A technical background deep enough to make architecture decisions with senior engineers across data models, APIs, permissions, system boundaries, reliability, tooling, and developer workflows.
  • First-hand experience with AI-native development workflows and clear judgment about what coding agents need from a platform.
  • Excellent product judgment and a proven ability to turn distinct platform capabilities into a clear product strategy and roadmap.
  • Experience leading and developing technical product teams.
  • Comfort creating clarity in ambiguous, early, or newly elevated product areas.
  • Strong leadership across Engineering, Design, GTM, Operations, and customer-facing teams.

Skills

Required:App Platform strategyObject GraphAI-native development workflows

Benefits

  • competitive salary
  • benefits
  • equity
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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