Product Design Lead, Workforce Management (Mobile)

Overview

Ripping gives businesses one place to manage HR, IT, and Finance. It integrates all workforce systems, allowing companies to manage and automate the employee lifecycle in a single system.

About the Role

This role owns the full Time mobile experience plus the Timeclock app, ensuring exceptional mobile-first product experiences for modern workforce management.

Responsibilities

• Design exceptional mobile-first product experiences for 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, identifying where workflows break, 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

• Experience with AI and its integration into design processes.
• Understanding of modern workforce management and mobile app design principles.
• Ability to work closely with engineering, product, and customer success teams.

Skills

• Strong design skills, including interaction and visual design.
• Experience with AI and its application in design.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.

Benefits

Equal Opportunity Employer. Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process.

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, working in the office, at least three days a week, is considered an essential function of the role.