Product Lead, Developer Experience

Vision and Roadmap

Your customers are Rippling's engineers. Hundreds of them, growing weekly, building across every surface of the product. AI coding tools are already transforming how they work. We're packaging them into coherent agentic workflows – inner and outer loops – alongside the dozens of libraries, services, and platform building blocks that are the substrate of Rippling. The goal: make the Developer Platform a force multiplier, improving developer productivity by 10x.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision and roadmap for Rippling's internal developer toolchain – AI agents, platform primitives, libraries, services, docs
• Work directly with SDEs to identify where DX breaks down and where investment has the highest leverage
• Drive adoption of platform building blocks by making them easier to discover, understand, and use
• Design how agentic coding fits into the Rippling development loop – from scaffolding to review to deployment to verification in production
• Define the metrics that measure developer velocity, and hold the product accountable to improving them

Requirements

• 8+ years of combined product and/or engineering experience
• Former SDE – not "technical background." You wrote production code, and you know what bad DX feels like from the inside.
• Actively codes – you use AI coding tools today and have strong opinions on them.
• Taste – you know the difference between DX that works and DX that demos well.
• Deep in the AI space – you're tracking how agentic coding is evolving and you have a point of view on where it's going.
• Understands the business case – you can connect DX improvements to developer throughput, hiring leverage, and scale.
• Experience owning platform or developer-facing products.

Qualifications

• Strong alignment with Rippling's leadership principles, particularly "Go and See," "Push Limits," "Are Right, a Lot," and "Change Minds Quickly, But Go."

Benefits

We are 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

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.

Pay

The pay range for this role is: 174,000 - 290,000 USD per year (US Tier 1)