Rippling's Data Cloud needs to power decision-making for thousands of businesses by turning billions of rows of data into actionable insights through reporting, dashboards, exploration, and advanced analytics. This involves tackling complex challenges in data at scale, including high-volume ingestion pipelines, real-time transformations, metadata-rich catalogs, and fine-grained governance.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in data infrastructure, platforms, and products, with a strong understanding of the modern data stack (e.g., ETL/ELT, data governance, and data warehousing).
- Demonstrated experience scaling products from "0 to 1" in a fast-paced environment.
- Proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire product and engineering teams to achieve ambitious goals.
- Act as an advocate for technical excellence, pushing for solutions that are scalable, reliable, and secure at an internet scale.
- Skilled at making tough trade-off decisions based on data and business needs.
Responsibilities
- Own the ingestion, transformation, and catalog systems that underpin every analytic experience at Rippling.
- Define the vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for data systems.
- Ensure we ship incremental value every quarter for data systems.
- Build world-class systems and a world-class team.
- Partner with senior leaders across product, engineering, and go-to-market on data systems.
- Ensure customers can explore, trust, and act on their data confidently.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers and engineering managers, fostering a culture of ownership and high performance.
Other
- 12+ years of experience in engineering leadership roles, with a proven track record of building and launching data-centric products.
- Partner with product leaders to define the product strategy and roadmap for our data products, including data ingestion, transformation engines, and our data catalog.
- Collaborate with product, design, and other engineering and business leaders to align on product vision and deliver products that solve complex customer problems.
- Drive the product lifecycle from ideation and discovery to launch and post-launch optimization.
- Take ambiguous business challenges and turn them into clear, actionable product requirements and strategies.
- Be the voice of the customer, deeply understanding their needs to ensure our data products deliver unprecedented value and a seamless user experience.
- Inspire and coach your team to continuously improve, fostering a culture of innovation and learning.
- Build strong relationships across the organization, ensuring your team’s products are seamlessly integrated and adopted by other teams.
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to articulate a compelling product vision to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience influencing cross-functional teams and senior leadership to gain buy-in and align on priorities.
- A master of translating customer needs and market trends into a clear, compelling product strategy.
