Director of Product Design, Platform & Data Cloud

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. 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 $1.2B 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.

We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses. 

About the Role

The Rippling Platform team is responsible for the products and frameworks that showcase the value of seamlessly integrating HR, IT, Finance, and third-party applications together into one unified platform. The team owns the foundational building blocks – like reporting, workflow automation, permissions, approvals, policies, search, notifications, and a unified data platform – that are leveraged across Rippling products. They also own end-user-facing products that leverage the unified data from these otherwise-fragmented business applications. Read more about the Rippling Platform at https://www.rippling.com/platform. 

As a Director of Product Design, you'll lead the Platform and Data Cloud teams while staying hands-on with key product initiatives. Your focus will be on creating a world-class platform that drives Rippling's compound-startup strategy. You'll guide your teams to design for diverse customer personas—supporting internal design teams building on the platform, while also crafting exceptional experiences for Rippling’s end users

What you will do

• Manage a business-critical team that’s a top company initiative to build out Rippling’s platform, helping drive Rippling’s rapid growth and differentiation.
• Lead a team of designers working on Rippling’s Platform capabilities and products, such as analytics, automation, AI, permissions, policies, data management, apps, and more. 
• Incorporate systems thinking into the design of Rippling’s core capabilities so that they are both modular and stand-alone full-featured product experiences that are both powerful and easy to use.
• Create a culture of craft, quality, and execution by inspiring, motivating, and leading product designers across experience levels to do the best work of their careers.
• Work closely with our Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, and executive leadership to deliver best-in-class, innovative work that pushes the limits of possible.

What you will need

• You have 8+ years of professional design experience and 5+ years managing and leading design and creative teams.
• You have brought a relentless customer focus to high-impact, high-visibility projects.
• You’re a systems thinker and have led the design of an integrated suite of products or ecosystem of features.
• You excel at written and verbal communication and use these skills to persuade and influence stakeholders toward building innovative products that uniquely resonate with customers.
• You work collaboratively with Engineering, Product, and Marketing team members to drive strategy and design execution.
• You have led, recruited, and scaled design teams at both startups and established companies.
• You have experience systematically growing product designers' skills so they do the best work of their careers.

Additional Information

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sex