Senior Manager of Product Design, AI Platform

Senior Manager of Product Design, AI Platform About this position 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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Design is central to how Rippling turns complex business software into products our customers can understand, trust, and use. As the senior product design manager for our AI Platform, you will lead the design work that defines how AI shows up across Rippling’s product suite: agents, workflows, approvals, growth and adoption, trust patterns, and model design.

This is a senior design leadership role for someone who can manage and coach strong designers while staying close to the craft, systems thinking, and product strategy required to make enterprise AI useful. You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Research, and cross-functional teams to create AI experiences that are coherent, reliable, and deeply integrated into the way businesses run.

• Lead Product Design for AI Platform, shaping the interaction models, UX patterns, and design principles that guide AI experiences across Rippling.
• Manage, coach, and raise the bar for designers working in ambiguous, high-leverage platform problem spaces.
• Define reusable patterns for agents, generated UI, human-in-the-loop approvals, trust, explainability, citations, error recovery, and user control.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to translate ambiguous AI platform opportunities into coherent, shippable product experiences.
• Drive cross-product alignment so AI experiences feel consistent, permission-aware, and useful across HR, IT, Finance, workflow, and admin surfaces.
• Use customer insight, product data, competitive analysis, and internal team feedback to identify the highest-leverage design opportunities.
• Create operating rituals for design reviews, pattern adoption, quality control, and cross-functional decision-making.
• Help attract, evaluate, and close senior design talent for Product Design and AI Platform.

• 10+ years of overall product design experience, including substantial work in complex B2B, enterprise SaaS, platform, workflow, developer tools, productivity, fintech, or AI product environments.
• 3+ years of product design management experience, including managing, coaching, and developing senior designers while maintaining a high bar for craft and product judgment.
• Strong systems thinking, with the ability to connect product surfaces, workflows, permissions, states, edge cases, and technical dependencies into coherent user experiences.
• Demonstrated ability to create reusable interaction patterns or design-system primitives that scale across multiple teams or product areas.
• Fluency in AI product challenges such as model uncertainty, generated output, user trust, explainability, human-in-the-loop decision-making, feedback loops, and error recovery.
• Strong cross-functional leadership with Product, Engineering, Research, GTM, CX, and…