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, Design is central to our mission to free smart people to tackle hard problems. We build products that automate the operational complexity of running a business—from HR and payroll to IT and finance—so our customers can focus on what matters most. In a world of fragmented, outdated systems, we're creating a unified platform where thoughtful design turns complexity into clarity, confidence, and action.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of end-to-end product design experience shipping complex, high-impact products from concept to launch, then iterating based on what you learn
- A portfolio that shows you can turn messy, ambiguous problems into simple, intuitive workflows, especially in complex domains
- Active use of LLMs (Claude, ChatGPT, or similar) in your design workflow whether for research, requirements, copy, or exploration
- Comfort with AI-assisted prototyping tools (Cursor, Claude Code, or similar), even if you're not writing production code
- Strong interaction and visual design craft, with the ability to produce polished work across edge cases and states, and communicate clear, build-ready specs
- Relentless customer focus, backed by a habit of digging into real behavior, identifying pain points, and designing solutions that solve meaningful problems
More about this role
At Rippling, Design is central to our mission to free smart people to tackle hard problems. We build products that automate the operational complexity of running a business—from HR and payroll to IT and finance—so our customers can focus on what matters most. In a world of fragmented, outdated systems, we're creating a unified platform where thoughtful design turns complexity into clarity, confidence, and action.
As a Product Design Lead on the HRIS team, you'll play a key role in shaping and scaling Rippling's core HR platform, helping businesses manage their workforce more efficiently across the globe.
You'll own end-to-end product experiences across high-impact areas, from core workflows like hiring and organizational data management to compliance and more. You'll help define a new generation of AI-first experiences, reimagining how work gets done through intelligent, proactive, and increasingly autonomous products that reduce manual effort and free our customers to work on hard problems.
Success in this role requires a designer who thrives in fast-paced environments, enjoys partnering closely with product, engineering, and cross-functional teams, and can quickly develop deep...
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