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. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed and Sequoia.
About the role
Rippling HRIS is the system of record for employee and organization data and the control plane for the workflows that change it. We’re looking for an Engineering Director to lead the teams responsible for employee transitions, employee terminations, and a new AI-assisted HR workflow charter. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Experience as an Engineering Director or equivalent leader overseeing a multi-team product engineering organization
- Experience leading through managers and senior technical leaders, with a track record of developing leadership capacity rather than becoming the decision bottleneck
- Experience owning high-stakes, workflow-heavy products or platforms where correctness, permissions, policy, auditability, and integrations matter
- Experience scaling products for complex enterprise customers, including operational edge cases and cross-functional dependencies
- Strong product judgment and technical depth, including the ability to evaluate architecture, sequencing, migration risk, and platform investment trade-offs
- Experience delivering a major product or system transformation while continuing to ship customer-facing improvements
More about this role
Rippling HRIS is the system of record for employee and organization data and the control plane for the workflows that change it. We’re looking for an Engineering Director to lead the teams responsible for employee transitions, employee terminations, and a new AI-assisted HR workflow charter.
In this role, you will lead a 15-person organization focused on making high-stakes employee lifecycle workflows faster, more reliable, and easier to operate at enterprise scale. You will define the product and technical strategy for AI-assisted workflows that help customers understand employee-change requests, gather missing information, coordinate approvals, and execute approved changes with transparency, human oversight, and auditability.
- Manual to agentic: Employee lifecycle workflows should do more of the work. Today, many processes still depend on an admin knowing the right sequence, collecting context, coordinating stakeholders, and following through manually. The opportunity is to make the product an intelligent partner while preserving human judgment, transparency, and control.
- High-stakes product surface: Transition and termination flows touch some of the most consequential...
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