Product Design Lead, HRIS

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running a businessfrom HR and payroll to IT and financeso our customers can focus on what matters a world of fragmented outdated systems were creating a unified platform where thoughtful design turns complexity into clarity confidence and action.

As a Product Design Lead on the HRIS team youll play a key role in shaping and scaling Ripplings core HR platform helping businesses manage their workforce more efficiently across the globe.

Youll own end-to-end product experiences across high-impact areas from core workflows like hiring and organizational data management to compliance and more. Youll 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 expertise in new domains. Designers at Rippling are product builders. AI isnt just something we designits fundamental to how we work from exploration and prototyping to shipping world-class customer experiences.

• Help define long-term and AI-first strategies within our HRIS portfolio.
• Design new 0-1 experiences improve and expand existing experiences and execute on tactical deliverables.
• Design for both employees and HR leaders delivering flows that feel effortless day to day while providing the control compliance and visibility required at scale.
• Collaborate tightly with Product and Engineering to make high-velocity decisions ship with urgency and advocate relentlessly for customers at every step.
• Partner closely with our Product Research team collaborate and support research projects and use insights in your design work.
• Champion a consumer-grade quality bar elevating craft across the portfolio and mentoring designers in systems thinking interaction design and visual polish.
• Work closely with other designers to develop and expand our design system.

• 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 youre 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.
• Excellent communication and storytelling from crisp async write-ups to persuasive presentations that drive alignment and decisions.
• A track record of working effectively with Product and Engineering moving quickly while holding a high quality bar.
• Comfort operating in fast-moving environments juggling multiple work-streams unblocking dependencies and owning timelines with minimal oversight.

Required Experience:

Senior IC