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Lead Product Manager - Data Catalog

Rippling · Seattle, WA · On-site

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About Rippling

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

At Rippling, Product is responsible for turning extraordinary technical depth into simple, powerful products for our customers. As the Lead Product Manager for Data Catalog, you will own the semantic, ontology and governance layer that makes Rippling’s first-party, third-party, and customer-created data understandable and usable by both humans and AI. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Experience as a senior product leader owning complex data, platform, infrastructure, analytics, AI, or developer-facing products at meaningful scale
  • Deep familiarity with data platforms, data warehouses, databases, analytics products, semantic layers, metadata systems, data governance, or adjacent B2B data products
  • Strong product judgment in ambiguous technical domains, with the ability to turn broad platform goals into crisp strategy, roadmap, and execution
  • A nuanced understanding of customer needs, business objectives, competitive dynamics, and industry trends in data and AI
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across multiple product and engineering teams, including senior stakeholders and executives
  • Strong systems thinking, especially the ability to model data relationships, dependencies, permissions, edge cases, and downstream product implications
More about this role

At Rippling, Product is responsible for turning extraordinary technical depth into simple, powerful products for our customers. As the Lead Product Manager for Data Catalog, you will own the semantic, ontology and governance layer that makes Rippling’s first-party, third-party, and customer-created data understandable and usable by both humans and AI.

This is a foundational product leadership role for Rippling’s Data Cloud and AI strategy. You will define how data is represented, governed, discovered, and used across payroll, HR, IT, finance, external systems, customer datasets, and developer-built applications. Your work will help Rippling AI answer customer questions correctly, take the right actions, and give internal and external developers a reliable interface into Rippling’s data graph.

You will be the product lead for a new, high-leverage area that touches nearly every Rippling product and depends on deep collaboration across engineering, AI, platform, product, and customer-facing teams. This is a rare opportunity to own the company context layer for AI at Rippling.

What you will do

  • Own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution for Rippling’s Data Catalog.

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