Product Design Lead, Data Cloud

Product Design Lead, Data Cloud

Location:

Seattle, Washington, United States

As a design lead for Data Cloud, you'll own how customers explore, analyze, and act on the operational data that flows through Rippling. Every employee event, every approval, every dollar spent, and every system change generates data that today lives inside individual products. Your work transforms that data into something customers can actually use: queryable, visualizable, governed, and connected to the systems they already trust.

Designers at Rippling are product builders. You'll work with PMs, engineers, and other designers to define problems, explore solutions, and ship experiences that change customer behavior. The work starts with LLMs to clarify thinking, moves into tools like Cursor and Claude Code for refinement, then ships to customers. Designers are involved through iteration, testing, and launch.

• Own the end‑to‑end Data Cloud experience from custom reports and dashboards through semantic models, query interfaces, and warehouse integrations.
• Design how customers move from a plain‑language question ("show me attrition by team since January") to a validated answer grounded in Rippling's underlying data graph.
• Build primitives that make complex data approachable: visualizations, filtering, drill‑downs, schema explorers, and permissions for sensitive workforce and financial data.
• Design for two audiences at once: business users who want fast, trustworthy answers, and data teams who want pipelines, models, and parity with their warehouse.
• Use LLMs to accelerate your process.
• Prototype using AI‑assisted tools to explore data flows and validate solutions with real interactions.
• Share patterns, tooling discoveries, and AI workflows across the design organization to raise the bar for everyone.

• A portfolio of high‑impact products delivered from concept through launch, ideally including analytics, BI, query builders, or other data‑heavy surfaces.
• Some comfort with the language of schemas, joins, aggregations, semantic layers, and warehouses.
• Active use of LLMs (Claude, ChatGPT, or similar) in your design workflow.
• Comfort with AI‑assisted prototyping tools (Cursor, Claude Code, or similar).
• A strong eye for craft, both interaction and visual, with the ability to make dense information feel calm and legible.
• Exceptional communication skills, making abstract concepts understandable and guiding cross‑functional partners through tough decisions.
• If you don't meet every requirement but are excited about the role, we encourage you to apply.

This role will receive a competitive salary, benefits, and equity.

Pay range for this role:

• 174,000 – 290,000 USD per year (US Tier 1)
• 156,600 – 261,000 USD per year (US Tier 2)
• 147,900 – 246,500 USD per year (US Tier 3)

Rippling highly values having employees working in‑office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office‑based employees, working in the office at least three days a week is an essential function of the role.

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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