Director of Product, IT

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

We’re hiring a Director of Product to help lead Rippling’s IT business: device management, identity & access management, AI governance, ITSM, automated compliance, and inventory management. You’ll own strategy and execution across a broad product surface, hire and develop exceptional PMs, and partner directly with engineering, design, sales, marketing, and customer-facing teams to build products that define the next generation of IT. The world of IT has changed. Employees now work across a sprawling set of devices, apps, permissions, data, AI tools, and automated agents. The old IT stack — MDM, identity, ticketing, inventory, compliance, and access governance as separate systems — creates fragmentation exactly where companies need control. Rippling IT is the IT infrastructure for the AI era: one platform that unifies identity, devices, inventory, support, AI governance, and compliance on a single data graph, so policy is set once and enforced everywhere. This is one of Rippling’s most strategic and fastest-growing businesses, and we’re looking for a product leader who can scale both the product and the team behind it.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy and execution for major parts of Rippling’s IT suite across device management, identity & access management, AI governance, ITSM, automated compliance, and inventory management
• Hire, develop, and lead a high-performing team of product managers, raising the bar for product judgment, customer empathy, velocity, and craft
• Define the next generation of IT products for a world shaped by AI, automation, distributed work, and increasing security and compliance expectations
• Partner deeply with engineering and design to build products that solve complex customer problems with simple, powerful workflows
• Work closely with GTM teams to understand customer needs, sharpen positioning, drive adoption, and scale the business
• Be a thought partner to the IT GM and senior leadership on product strategy, org design, sequencing, and long-term platform bets
• Develop a clear point of view on how AI will change IT, security, governance, and the way companies manage their workforce systems

Requirements

• Deep product leadership experience building and scaling complex products
• A track record of hiring, growing, and leading high-performing product teams
• Excellent product taste and systems thinking: you can turn complex workflows, edge cases, and platform constraints into elegant customer experiences
• High clock speed, strong ownership