Product Lead, Employee Data & Lifecycle

Product Lead, Employee lifecycle & HRIS Platform

Rippling Seattle, Washington, United States Admin/Clerical/Secretarial

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.

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.

This role requires thinking across a wide range of company sizes and use cases—from small teams to large, complex organizations. You will design workflows that support both individual actions and high‑volume operations, ensuring performance and reliability at scale. A core part of the role is maintaining data integrity—making sure changes are traceable, compliant, and handled with precision—while holding a high bar for correctness and system reliability.

• 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…