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. As a Product Design Lead on the IT team, you’ll help shape one of Rippling’s fastest-growing businesses and most important strategic investments. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of end-to-end product design experience shipping complex, high-impact products from concept through launch, then iterating based on what you learn
- A portfolio that shows strong product judgment, systems thinking, and craft: you can turn messy, ambiguous domains into intuitive, high-quality experiences
- Experience designing technically complex products with deep workflows, permissions, edge cases, platform dependencies, or enterprise-grade controls
- Technical curiosity and fluency, including comfort working closely with engineers on AI systems, platform primitives, model behavior, evals, agentic workflows, MCPs, or related technical concepts
- Strong interaction and visual design skills, with the ability to move fluidly between long-term vision, systems-level thinking, and the detailed execution needed to ship polished product experiences
- Relentless customer focus, with a habit of building domain expertise through research, customer conversations, product data, and go-to-market feedback
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.
As a Product Design Lead on the IT team, you’ll help shape one of Rippling’s fastest-growing businesses and most important strategic investments.
IT is one of the most complex systems inside a company, and one of the most critical. Employees need the right devices, apps, permissions, and support without friction. IT teams need security, compliance, governance, and control across a stack that keeps expanding with data, AI tools, and automated agents. Rippling IT unifies identity, devices, inventory, support, AI governance, and compliance on one platform and one data graph, so policy can be set once and enforced everywhere.
You’ll shape the design strategy for this domain, craft north-star experiences, and define the systems that make complex IT workflows AI-native, intuitive, sharp, and scalable. Success in this role requires a designer who thrives in ambiguity, develops deep customer and domain expertise, and brings clarity...
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