Product Design Lead, Finance

About the role

Rippling is a company that brings together all of the workforce systems into a single system, allowing businesses to manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle efficiently. The role of Product Design Lead for Finance involves helping to define the long-term vision for Rippling’s Spend Management Platform, bringing together products like Cards, Travel, Expenses, and Bill Pay into a cohesive hub for global finance.

What You Will Do

• Help define the long-term vision for Rippling’s Spend Management Platform, bringing together products like Cards, Travel, Expenses, and Bill Pay into a cohesive hub for global finance.
• Partner with Research to deeply understand complex finance workflows, then translate that complexity into simple, cross-product experiences that set Rippling apart.
• Design for both employees and finance leaders, delivering flows that feel effortless day to day while providing the control, compliance, and visibility required at scale.
• Champion a consumer-grade quality bar, elevating craft across the Finance Suite and mentoring designers in systems thinking, interaction design, and visual polish.
• Collaborate tightly with Product and Engineering to make high-velocity decisions, ship with urgency, and advocate relentlessly for customers at every step.

What You Will Need

• 7-8+ years of end-to-end product design experience shipping complex, high-impact products from concept to launch, then iterating based on what you learn.
• A portfolio that shows you can turn messy, ambiguous problems into simple, intuitive workflows, especially in complex domains.
• Strong interaction and visual design craft, with the ability to produce polished work across edge cases and states, and communicate clear, build-ready specs.
• Relentless customer focus, backed by a habit of digging into real behavior, identifying pain points, and designing solutions that solve meaningful problems.
• Excellent communication and storytelling, from crisp async write-ups to persuasive presentations that drive alignment and decisions.
• A track record of working effectively with Product and Engineering, moving quickly while holding a high quality bar.
• Comfort operating in fast-moving environments, juggling multiple work-streams, unblocking dependencies, and owning timelines with minimal oversight.