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About the Role

Rippling's employee graph is the foundation for all products, and the Employee Lifecycle team manages changes to this graph and the interfaces for user interaction. This role is crucial for expanding into the enterprise market by addressing gaps in the current HRIS product. The Product Manager will define the strategy, prioritize work, and shape an enterprise-scale product experience, aiming for category leadership in enterprise HRIS. The role requires managing complex underlying systems and creating simple, trustworthy user interfaces.

Responsibilities

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
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

Skills

Product Management
UX
Systems Thinking
Cross-functional Leadership
Reliability
Performance
Technical Judgment
AI Fluency
HR
Payroll
Systems of Record
Data Integrity
Compliance
Auditability
Platform PM
Infrastructure PM

Location

US-based

Work Type

Office-based

Experience Level

8+ years of product management experience

Salary/Compensations

Competitive salary + benefits + equity

Benefits

Competitive salary + benefits + equity

About the Company

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 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
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.

Equal Opportunity

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 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