Director of Product, App Platform

About the role

About Rippling Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system. Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds. Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

About The Role Rippling is building a developer platform that lets developers build software on top of Rippling, connect Rippling to custom data, and eventually sell applications to Rippling customers. This role will lead the apps pillar of that platform and turn a set of powerful internal primitives into a coherent developer product. As Director of Product, App Platform, you will define the strategy for Rippling’s application platform and app ecosystem, including the Object Graph, Object Platform, custom apps, workflows, functions, documents, sites, localization, and related capabilities. The right person has built for developers before and can make complex platform architecture feel simple, reliable, and worth building on.

Responsibilities

• Set the App Platform strategy. Define how Rippling’s app primitives come together into a clear, scalable developer platform.
• Make developers the customer. Build APIs, schemas, permissions, tooling, documentation, observability, and lifecycle experiences that help developers build confidently.
• Lead the Object Graph and Object Platform roadmap. Shape the shared data and platform foundation that first-party teams, solutions teams, customers, and external developers build on.
• Enable AI-native app creation. Make the platform usable by AI coding agents through machine-readable interfaces, deterministic behavior, safe permissions, and actionable errors.
• Build and lead the team. Hire, coach, and develop product leaders for a broad, technically complex, strategically important product area.
• Drive ecosystem impact. Help scale custom apps and create the foundation for third-party developers to build and sell software on Rippling.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of product management, engineering,