Product Lead, Workflow Studio

About the role

Rippling's mission is to free smart people from the administrative burden of running their business. At the core of Rippling's vision is automation: enabling companies to orchestrate complex workflows across every part of their organization. We’re looking for a Product Lead to lead the next evolution of Workflow Studio, Rippling’s workflow automation product, into a next-generation agentic automation platform that spans all of Rippling’s product lines. You’ll define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for how customers design, deploy, and scale intelligent workflows and agents across Rippling—powering everything from onboarding and IT provisioning to payroll operations, compliance, and financial automation. This is a highly visible role with significant product ownership, deep technical collaboration, and the opportunity to shape a foundational pillar of Rippling’s platform.

Responsibilities

• Own Workflow Studio—Rippling's cross-product automation engine that customers use to build multi-step workflows spanning Payroll, Recruiting, Benefits, IT, Finance, and third-party apps.
• Own the reliability and quality of the platform customers have already built their operations on, while simultaneously pushing it into the next generation of AI-powered and agentic automation.
• Define how triggers, conditional logic, approvals, and escalations work across Rippling's product surface area—building primitives that serve every product team.
• Work directly with engineering to navigate event-driven architectures and pipeline infrastructure while shaping how LLMs transform workflow automation.
• Work cross-functionally across product, engineering, design, and customer-facing teams to drive adoption and ensure workflows are properly launched, sold, and supported.

Qualifications

• Has owned a public-facing platform or infrastructure product that customers built on and depended on—PaaS, automation, integration, or workflow orchestration.
• Has been responsible for revenue from a platform or infrastructure product—understands how platform capabilities translate to pricing, packaging, and growth.
• Demonstrated technical depth from owning infrastructure—can navigate event-driven architectures and pipeline systems, and has an informed point of view on how AI changes workflow automation.
• Strong opinions about where workflow automation is going, shared freely.
• Strong alignment with Rippling's leadership principles, particularly 'Push the limits of possible', 'Are right, a lot', 'Challenge each other directly', and 'Change their minds'.
• Nice to have: experience with workflow or automation platforms (Zapier, n8n, Temporal, Airflow, or internal equivalents), navigating a V1-to-V2 platform migration, or shipping AI-powered features in production.

Pay

The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location. A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation—including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. The pay range for this role is $174,000 - $304,500 USD per year (US Tier 1). This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity.

Schedule

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 to be an essential function of the employee's role.