Product Lead, Global Finance Platform Architecture

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

Rippling’s finance products are responsible for moving billions of dollars and making payments to millions of workers each week. It is an intellectually demanding product area where your mission is to abstract a lot of background complexity into a beautifully simple, reliable experience. The payroll suite in particular is among the first products that customers use when they switch to Rippling, and so our product teams must be on the frontier in expanding our business upmarket, and supporting new countries.

We are looking for an experienced, technical PM to help drive the platform architecture to support this growth. You will work with senior and staff-level engineers to identify platform-level problems that can unlock our growth. You will wrestle with gnarly, top-level technical and product challenges, and won’t stop until you find a simple solution. You’ll intimately know the bleeding edge enterprise customers and how our platform needs to evolve to support them. Your solutions will create enough configurability to serve our various market needs, but maintain the platform consistency and reliability for us to scale.

We are looking for an experienced PM to lead to report directly to the VP of Product, and wrangle some of our hardest challenges. You’ll work closely with teams of engineers, designers, compliance and policy experts across the company, as well as GTM teams, to scale the business, and build features that benefit millions of employees.

What role do Product Leads play at Rippling? Product Leads set the pace for their teams; they own the whole outcome; and they build the right stuff. This is an empowered role that is perfect for a high-agency, intellectually curious leader.

What you will do

• Be the driving force that keeps attention on a complex problem until we arrive at an acceptable solution
• Dig into details and “go-and-see” how customers are using the product and what their challenges are, and prioritize what Rippling should build to help them
• With engineers and designers, come up with platform-level capabilities that provide a scaled benefit and solve for multiple use cases at once
• Lead projects directly with engineers, and work through other PMs and engineering managers on payroll, and across Rippling
• See around corners, spotting unforeseen use cases and opportunities to future-proof the platform

What you will need

• 8+ years of experience in product management, or founding experience
• Self-starter with a bias towards action and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Technical background, and/or not afraid to dig into technical details with engineers
• Thrives in understanding complexity quickly, and transforming it into simple user experiences
• Deep technical, analytical, and problem solving skills
• Exceptional interpersonal communication & organizational skills
• Strong ability to motivate and inspire people to do their best work
• Relentlessly focused on customers’ needs
• Strong alignment with Rippling's leadership principles, particularly 'Push the limits of possible', 'Challenge directly', and 'Go and see'

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.