Product Lead, Data & Lifecycle

About the role

Rippling's employee graph is the backbone of every product we build — every workflow, integration, and downstream system ultimately reads from or writes to it. The Employee Lifecycle team owns the moments when that graph changes (role transitions, profile updates, terminations) and the core surfaces where admins and employees interact with that data.

This role exists at a specific inflection point. Rippling's HRIS product wins decisively in the SMB market; the next wave of growth is enterprise, and the gaps that stand between us and that market sit almost entirely in this surface area. The PM who takes this role will define how we close those gaps — sequencing the work, making the architectural calls, and shaping a product experience that holds up at enterprise scale.

The goal is to move from parity to category leadership in enterprise HRIS.

The work itself is a rare combination. The underlying systems are genuinely complex — stackable changes to the employee record, bulk operations across tens of thousands of employees, downstream contracts with payroll, permissions, and every other Rippling product. The user-facing surfaces have to hide all of that behind interfaces that admins and employees can trust and navigate without thinking. Doing both well is the job.

You’ll own the roadmap end-to-end across Terminations, Transitions, Employee Apps, and the HRIS Platform layer. You’ll make the calls on what to build, how to sequence it, and where to draw the line between scale, latency, and velocity.

• 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
  , with significant ownership of technically complex, user-facing products in a high-scale environment
• Strong UX instincts on technically complex surfaces — you’ve shipped products where the underlying problem was genuinely hard (multi-team dependencies, intertwined system changes, non-obvious user behavior) but the resulting experience felt simple and coherent.
• Systems thinking across product surfaces — you naturally reason about how a change in one place compounds downstream (e.g., a profile change that ripples into compensation, payroll, permissions, and audit trails), and you treat those downstream effects as part of your product, not someone else’s problem
• Cross-functional leadership across multiple teams
  , with a track record of driving parallel execution, aligning stakeholders, and bringing intertwined work to the finish line without slowing delivery
• A product-quality view of reliability and performance — you treat latency, correctness, and trust as part…