Rippling needs a Product Design Lead for Foundations to shape the core experience of their HR, IT, and Finance platform, ensuring clarity, speed, and confidence for customers across all subsystems. The goal is to set the standard for how users navigate and understand Rippling, and to drive the company into the next era of enterprise software through modern conventions and AI-powered workflows.
Requirements
- 8+ years of end‑to‑end product design experience, with a portfolio of complex, high‑impact products delivered from initial concept through iteration and delivery.
- Proven ability to think in systems and simplify complexity, with experience designing in challenging domains or compliance‑heavy environments.
- Exceptional visual and interaction craft with impeccable taste—the ability to produce clear, detailed specifications and contribute to the development of our design system.
- A portfolio where the execution quality speaks for itself—your shipped work sets the bar for craft, clarity, and impact.
- Experience designing in challenging domains or compliance‑heavy environments.
- Ability to produce clear, detailed specifications.
- Experience designing in challenging domains.
Responsibilities
- Design the end‑to‑end foundations of Rippling’s core experience—Home, navigation, and agentic workflows—crafting systems that are fast, scalable, and radically simple.
- Develop and evolve a shared information architecture, aligning taxonomy, nomenclature, and navigation across subsystems.
- Deeply understand each of Rippling’s subsystems and connect the dots—leading cogent design updates that steer our experience strategy.
- Introduce and normalize modern SaaS conventions and next‑gen, agentic workflows that elevate quality and accelerate the pace of innovation.
- Contribute to the development of our design system.
- Crafting systems that are fast, scalable, and radically simple.
- Spot where cross‑product workflows break, and turn those insights into strategic design priorities that drive real business impact.
Other
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills—an excellent communicator who is relentless in driving innovation and alignment across partners and levels.
- Relentless customer focus, backed by a habit of digging into real behavior, identifying pain points, and designing solutions that solve meaningful problems.
- A bias toward action, especially in ambiguous or fast‑moving environments—you have a track record of generating many ideas, iterating quickly, unblocking dependencies, and owning timelines without daily oversight.
- A proven track record of moving challenging decisions through an organization to affect change, influencing cross‑functionally and at multiple levels.
- If you don't necessarily meet all of these requirements, we still encourage you to apply. Skills transfer in unexpected ways, and diverse perspectives often lead to the most innovative solutions.
