Rippling needs a Product Design Lead for Platform to design the connective tissue of their product, ensuring coherence, power, and scalability across all workforce systems (HR, IT, Finance). This role will address challenges in permissions, data integration governance, and shared surfaces to maintain a unified system as Rippling scales globally.
Requirements
- 8+ years of end-to-end product design experience, with a portfolio demonstrating systems design and complex product delivery.
- Proven ability to simplify complexity, with experience in domains like platform infrastructure, data integrations, or compliance-heavy environments.
- A strong eye for craft—both interaction and visual—with the ability to set a high bar and drive quality across teams.
- Systems-mindedness: you see connections across products and design with platform coherence in mind.
- Comfort with complexity and scale, with a genuine curiosity and enthusiasm for untangling hard problems.
Responsibilities
- Design core platform primitives that scale across Rippling and power multiple products.
- Make abstract, complex systems concrete for customers and internal teams alike, simplifying concepts without reducing their power.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to design scalable, extensible frameworks that balance flexibility with usability.
- Collaborate across the company to ensure shared surfaces (like home and navigation) are cohesive and delightful.
- Anticipate and design for edge cases in data flows, governance, and multi-system integrations, ensuring robustness and resilience.
- Deliver high-fidelity designs and interaction prototypes that clarify decision-making and elevate customer experience.
Other
- Exceptional communication skills, making abstract concepts understandable and guiding cross-functional partners through tough decisions.
- A bias toward action, especially in ambiguous or fast-moving environments.
- Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture.
- For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.
- This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity.
