Senior Product Design Manager, Payroll

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About the role

At Rippling, Design is at the core of our mission to free smart people to tackle hard problems. We help teams automate the mundane, surface insights instantly, and operate with clarity and confidence. In a world of outdated, bloated legacy products, we’re building something modern, streamlined, and deeply considered. A thoughtful user experience is how we turn complexity into simplicity, so our customers can stay focused on what truly matters.

Designing here is demanding. It’s fast-paced, ambitious, and requires real rigor. We’re building a rapidly growing platform of interconnected products with a massive surface area. Our success hinges on thinking end-to-end across diverse product use cases and creating a unified system that customers can learn once and use everywhere.

As the Senior Product Design Manager for Global Payroll, you’ll lead a team of designers working on one of Rippling’s most complex and widely adopted offerings. You’ll also be hands-on in shaping one of our newest Finance products, driving significant revenue growth in the years ahead. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead a business-critical team, design innovative product experiences from the ground up, and reimagine key workflows for massive customer impact.

If you’re a seasoned player/coach who thrives in high-velocity environments, handles complexity with confidence, and picks up new domains quickly—we’d love to hear from you.

What You Will Do

• Lead a business-critical team driving the expansion of Rippling’s Global Payroll offerings, fueling the company’s rapid growth and differentiation in the marketplace
• Guide a team of designers shaping Rippling’s Payroll products, including payments, filings, remittances, tax calculations, variable compensation, and more
• Design large-scale, complex experiences that are learnable, powerful, trustworthy, and efficient for users across the globe
• Create a culture of craft, quality, and execution by inspiring, motivating, and leading product designers across experience levels to do the best work of their careers
• Work closely with our Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, and executive leadership to deliver best-in-class, innovative work that pushes the limits of possible

What You Will Need

• 8+ years of professional design experience, with 3+ years leading and managing design teams
• Proven track record of delivering high-impact, customer-focused projects
• Experience as a systems thinker, having designed an integrated product suite or feature ecosystem
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to persuade and influence stakeholders
• Collaborative approach to working with Engineering, Product, and Marketing teams to drive both product strategy and rigorous, operational execution
• Experience leading, recruiting, and scaling design teams in both startups and established companies
• Experience systematically growing product designers' skills to do the best work of their careers

Additional Information

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 accomodations@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.

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.

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