Product Lead, Identity & Access Management

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

The IT Products team at Rippling builds solutions that dramatically reduce the administrative burden faced by IT administrators. Our existing products include Device Management, Identity & Access Management and Inventory Management, which automate the user and device lifecycle end-to-end. When a customer hires a new employee, Rippling can ship them a preconfigured laptop with their user account, company security settings, and necessary software.

This streamlines onboarding and offboarding, saving IT admins countless hours.

In this pivotal role, you will serve as the Product Lead for the entire Rippling Identity Platform and a significant portion of our Identity & Access Management (IAM) SKU. This is a strategic position where you will define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for how Rippling empowers businesses to manage their workforce identities and access with unparalleled automation, security, and compliance.

Your work will directly address critical customer pain points related to manual access management, security lapses, and compliance challenges in fast-growing environments.

You'll be expected to dive deep into the intricacies of identity standards, market dynamics, and technical integrations. You will lead and inspire your dedicated engineering and design counterparts, and collaborate extensively with sales, marketing, and finance teams to ensure successful product launches and sustained growth. Post-launch, you will drive ongoing releases, both large and small, continuously enhancing the platform's capabilities while prioritizing a seamless user experience and operational efficiency.

What you will do

• Define and execute the product strategy and roadmap for the Rippling Identity Platform and key components of our IAM SKU
• Deeply understand the Identity & Access Management (IAM) market, including industry trends, competitive landscape, and evolving security and compliance requirements.
• Translate complex identity and access challenges into simple, intuitive, and scalable product solutions for IT and HR administrators.
• Drive the entire product lifecycle from ideation, discovery, and specification through development, launch, and post-launch iteration.
• Collaborate closely with engineering and design teams to define technical requirements, user flows, and user interfaces that deliver exceptional value.
• Partner cross-functionally with sales, marketing, finance, legal, and customer success teams to ensure successful go-to-market strategies and product adoption.
• Act as a subject matter expert on identity lifecycle management, automated provisioning/deprovisioning, access governance, directory services, and integrations with third-party applications.
• Champion the voice of the customer, gathering feedback and insights to inform product decisions and prioritize features.
• Be agile and adaptable, synthesizing ambiguous inputs into solid action plans and doing whatever it takes to make your product and team successful.

What you will need

• 7+ years of Product Management experience, with a minimum of 3 years directly managing Identity & Access Management (IAM) products or platforms.
• Demonstrated experience owning and successfully launching a product from inception to market, ideally within a B2B SaaS environment focused on IT or HR solutions.
• Deep understanding of core IAM concepts and technologies, including but not limited to: automated provisioning/deprovisioning, Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), directory services (e.g., Active Directory, LDAP), SCIM, and API integrations.
• Proven ability to define and drive product strategy for complex technical platforms.
• Self-starter with a strong bias towards action and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Exceptional ability to motivate and inspire cross-functional teams (engineering, design, sales, marketing) to achieve ambitious goals.
• Relentlessly focused on customers' needs, with a track record of building products that solve real problems and deliver measurable business value.
• Exceptional interpersonal communication, relationship management,…