Product Lead, Payroll Platform

Rippling; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a seasoned product leader to own the roadmap for corrections within our payroll platform, focusing on performance, scalability, and a simple user experience. You will guide strategy and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, reliable products at global scale.

In Bengaluru, you will build payroll agents and interfaces, ensuring the corrections capabilities meet the needs of startups and large enterprises alike.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of product management experience or equivalent founder experience.
• Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with a bias toward action.
• Track record of turning complex systems into simple, elegant user experiences.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills.
• Ability to motivate and align cross-functional teams around ambitious goals.

Responsibilities

• Own roadmap and strategy – set the vision and own the roadmap for corrections, ensuring scalability and reliability for growing customers.
• Build Payroll agents – develop correction capabilities and integrate them into existing interfaces.
• Build for scale – partner with design and engineering to scale product capabilities globally for enterprises.
• Build the core user experience – maintain performance at scale and provide a simple, intuitive UX.
• Stay close to customers – work with customers to identify high-impact opportunities related to corrections.

Skills

Product strategy

Cross-functional

Analytical

Problem solving

Communication

Customer empathy

Job description

About the role

Rippling is building compound software: a unified system where data from across the business is connected through a single graph. Payroll sits at the center of that system and is a key reason customers choose us.

Corrections are an integral concept of the core payroll product. When customers need to change data in the past, it triggers a wave of downstream events across payroll surfaces like tax filings, upcoming pay runs, reports, and employee paystubs.

This presents problems around performance at scale, accuracy, and explainability. We’re looking for a seasoned product leader who can see the forest from the trees, set direction across teams, and deliver a straightforward and performant user experience on top of a complicated technical area.

What you will do

• Own roadmap and strategy – Set the vision and own the roadmap for corrections, including how it needs to change and scale to accommodate the ever larger customers Rippling is focused on serving. You’ll champion this strategy, and work with the broader Rippling organization to ensure we build scalable, intuitive, and high reliability products.


• Build Payroll agents – build out the set of correction capabilities that we give payroll agents, and how these capabilities and actions are integrated into existing interfaces.


• Build for scale – Rippling serves both the smallest startups and the largest enterprises. You’ll need to partner closely with design and engineering to figure out how to scale our product capabilities globally and to suit the scale of large enterprises.


• Build the core user experience – As the product expands globally and to larger customers, we need to consider performance at scale, as well as maintaining a simple user experience. You’ll need to appreciate the complexity and deliver intuitive and simplified experiences to customers.


• Stay close to customers – Work directly with customers to deeply understand operational pain points related to corrections to identify high impact opportunities.

What you will need

• 6+ years of product management experience, or equivalent founder experience


• Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills


• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with a strong bias toward action


• Track record of turning complex systems into simple, elegant user experiences


• Excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills


• Ability to motivate and align cross-functional teams around ambitious goals


• Deep customer empathy and strong product judgment


• Strong alignment with Rippling’s leadership principles, especially:


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  • Push the limits of possible
  
  
  • Challenge each other
  
  
  • Go and see
  
  
  
  

If you don’t meet every qualification listed, we still encourage you to apply. Skills and experiences can show up in many forms, and we value diverse perspectives and backgrounds.