Product Design Lead, Workforce Management (Mobile)

About the role

Rippling is a company that brings together all of the workforce systems for businesses, allowing them to manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system. This role focuses on the Time mobile experience and the Timeclock app.

Responsibilities

• Design exceptional mobile-first product experiences for modern workforce management — including clock-in/out flows, schedule views, shift swaps, break tracking, timecard approvals, and the Timeclock kiosk app.
• Define what great mobile looks like at Rippling by establishing patterns, interaction standards, and quality benchmarks that extend beyond Time into the broader platform.
• Get close to customers to understand how managers and admins actually run hourly teams: where workflows break, where complexity hides, and where better design can drive real business impact.
• Design scalable capabilities and platform patterns that work for multiple products, customer segments, and use cases, creating coherent experiences across Rippling’s broader platform.
• Use AI as a core part of your design process to clarify problem spaces, generate and refine requirements, explore edge cases, and pressure-test solutions before they reach production.
• Prototype with AI-assisted tools to make ideas tangible quickly, explore realistic interactions, and validate solutions through working flows rather than static mocks alone.

Requirements

• 6+ years of end-to-end product design experience, with a portfolio demonstrating strong mobile craft and complex product delivery.
• Active use of LLMs (Claude, ChatGPT, or similar) in your design workflow, whether for research, requirements, copy, or exploration.
• Comfort with AI-assisted prototyping tools (Cursor, Claude Code, or similar), even if you're not writing production code.
• A strong eye for craft, both interaction and visual, with the ability to set a high bar and drive quality across teams.
• Exceptional communication skills, making abstract concepts understandable and guiding cross-functional partners through decisions.
• A relentless customer focus and desire to dig deep to understand real user needs and translate them into design decisions that solve real problems.

Qualifications

• We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics.
• Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accommodations@rippling.com.
• The role requires working in-office at least three days a week for US-based employees.

Benefits

• Rippling is an equal opportunity employer.
• This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.

Pay

• The pay range for this role is:
• 153,000 - 255,000 USD per year (US Tier 1)
• 137,700 - 229,500 USD per year (US Tier 2)
• 130,050 - 216,750 USD per year (US Tier 3)

Schedule

• 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.

Skills

• Product Design

Location

• San Francisco, CA
• New York, NY
• Seattle, WA