Product Lead, Employee Data & Lifecycle

Overview

Ripping gives businesses one place to manage HR, IT, and Finance. It consolidates various workforce systems like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers into a single system.

Responsibilities

• Take onboarding to 90 seconds by setting up a new employee's payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365 upon hire.
• Own the end-to-end roadmap for core employee lifecycle (Terminations, Transitions & Employee Apps and HRIS Platform) systems and surfaces, setting direction, prioritizing high-impact work, and making clear sequencing decisions that balance speed, scale, and correctness.
• Lead the development of critical workflows that power employee changes across their lifecycle, ensuring these flows are intuitive for users while handling the underlying complexity required for accuracy across systems.
• Drive enterprise readiness for high-stakes features by coordinating across partner teams and ensuring seamless interoperability with downstream systems and workflows.
• Set and uphold a high bar for reliability and correctness, treating issues as product failures, driving root cause resolution, and continuously improving system robustness and user trust.
• Define and own success metrics across the product surface, including workflow completion, system performance, reliability, and downstream impact, and use these to inform product strategy and execution.
• Represent your product areas in cross-functional planning and leadership discussions, committing to clear outcomes, proactively identifying risks, and making trade-offs when priorities or constraints shift.
• Operate as the central point of accountability across a distributed engineering team, building strong execution partnerships, driving alignment, and ensuring consistent delivery across time zones.
• Communicate clearly with senior stakeholders, translating complex trade-offs into crisp decisions and ensuring visibility into progress, risks, and impact.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product management experience, with significant ownership of technically complex, user-facing products in a high-scale environment.
• Strong UX instincts on technically complex surfaces — you've shipped products where the underlying problem was genuinely hard (multi-team dependencies, intertwined system changes, non-obvious user behavior) but the resulting experience felt simple and coherent.
• Systems thinking across product surfaces — you naturally reason about how a change in one place compounds downstream (e.g., a profile change that ripples into compensation, payroll, permissions, and audit trails), and you treat those downstream effects as part of your product, not someone else's problem.
• Cross-functional leadership across multiple teams, with a track record of driving parallel execution, aligning stakeholders, and bringing intertwined work to the finish line without slowing delivery.
• A product-quality view of reliability and performance — you treat latency, correctness, and trust as part of the user experience, not as an infrastructure concern owned elsewhere. You've made deliberate trade-offs between scale, latency, and velocity and can articulate why.
• Strong technical judgment to engage credibly with engineering on data modeling, APIs, and system design, and to influence architectural decisions — though you don't need to have been a platform PM by title.
• AI fluency in your day-to-day — you actively use AI in how you work and build, and have a point of view on where it belongs in the product.

Qualifications

• Experience in HR, payroll, or other systems of record is a plus, particularly involving data integrity, compliance, and auditability.
• Platform or infrastructure PM experience is also a plus but not required.

Benefits

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. 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 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) 156,600 - 261,000 USD per year (US Tier 2)