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About the Role

Bonuses and commissions are a meaningful part of how people get paid and some of the hardest payments for companies to manage. Rippling has the opportunity to bring that entire process into one connected system. We’re looking for a Product Lead to build Variable Compensation around AI agents from the start. Variable Compensation fills a critical gap in Rippling’s payroll offering and has the potential to become a substantial business of its own. You will own the vision, strategy, and execution, working with a dedicated engineering team to bring the product to market and scale it. As the business grows, there’s an opportunity to expand your scope and help bring Rippling’s compensation products together into a broader suite.

Responsibilities

Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Variable Compensation.
Make the prioritization calls that take the product from early releases to adoption and growth.
Build agents that carry compensation workflows through to completion.
Define how agents interpret plan terms, identify payment obligations, monitor eligibility, calculate amounts, and coordinate approvals and payouts.
Set a high bar for accuracy and trust.
Define how the product handles ambiguous terms, incomplete data, exceptions, and changing employee circumstances.
Build the controls, explanations, and auditability customers need to trust it with employee pay.
Use Rippling’s connected platform to solve the whole problem.
Leverage HRIS, payroll, talent, integrations, and AI platform teams to connect employee context and business data with compensation calculations and payment.
Stay close to customers and the details of their work.
Understand how payroll, finance, HR, and revenue teams administer compensation today, where manual processes break down, and which problems are most valuable to solve first.
Lead execution with a small, focused team.
Work closely with engineering and design, move quickly from customer insight to shipped product, and dig into data models, workflows, and edge cases when needed.
Own outcomes beyond launch.
Define success metrics, learn from adoption and real-world agent performance, and partner with go-to-market, implementation, and support teams to build a product customers can adopt and use successfully.

Requirements

8+ years of product management experience, or equivalent founder experience, with substantial ownership of a complex product area and accountability for outcomes.
A track record of bringing products from zero to one, making progress through ambiguity, and iterating toward customer adoption.
AI-native product judgment.
Experience with products where numerical accuracy, complex business logic, and reliability matter.
Strong product judgment.
A deep sense of ownership and a bias toward action.
Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to align cross-functional partners and collaborate effectively.
If you don’t meet every qualification listed, we still encourage you to apply.
Skills and experiences can show up in many forms, and we value diverse perspectives and backgrounds.

Skills

You use current AI tools, understand how agents and LLM-based products behave in practice, and have a strong point of view on where they can create clear customer value.
Fintech, payments, data and analytics, or similarly stringent domains are especially relevant.
You can translate complicated compensation rules and operational workflows into clear product behavior, including when something unexpected happens.
You can set the strategy, make difficult tradeoffs, and work through the details required to ship and sustain the product.
Compensation or payroll domain experience is helpful, but not required.
Strong alignment with Rippling’s leadership principles, especially “Go and See”, “Push the Limits of Possible”, and “Are Right, A Lot”.

Location

US-based

Work Type

Office-based
In-office

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