Product Lead, Data & Lifecycle

Product Lead, Employee lifecycle & HRIS Platform 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.

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 within 90 seconds.

Rippling’s employee graph is the backbone of every product. The Employee Lifecycle team owns the moments when that graph changes—role transitions, profile updates, and terminations—as well as the core surfaces where admins and employees interact with that data.

As a Product Lead, you will own the systems that define and update employee data across its lifecycle. This includes building and scaling workflows that handle key employee changes such as role transitions and offboarding, while ensuring these changes are accurate, reliable, and reflected consistently across systems. You’ll also own the primary surfaces where this data is viewed and managed, shaping a simple, unified experience that makes employee information easy to understand, safe to update, and auditable over time.

• 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.

• 8+ years of product management experience, including significant ownership of platform or infrastructure products in a high‑scale B2B environment.
• A track record of delivering complex, high‑impact products tied to enterprise outcomes, with experience driving execution across multiple teams under tight timelines.
• Strong technical judgment across system design, including data modeling, APIs, and distributed systems; able to engage deeply with engineering and influence architectural decisions.
• Experience owning reliability and performance for critical user‑facing systems, with a high bar for correctness and a mindset of continuous improvement.
• Strong product instincts in high‑stakes environments, with the ability to make thoughtful trade‑offs, sequence work effectively, and manage risk in complex systems.
• Clear and direct communication style, with the ability to align engineering, design, and leadership through crisp thinking and structured decision‑making.
• Experience in HR, payroll, or other systems of record is a plus, particularly in areas involving data integrity, compliance, and auditability.

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.

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This role will receive a competitive salary, benefits, and equity. The pay range for this role is: $174,000 – $290,000 USD per year (US Tier 1).