AI Onboarding Platform Lead

Rippling, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 345,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a deeply technical Senior Engineering Manager to lead the AI Onboarding engineering team, shaping a high-impact product platform that drives activation and growth across Rippling products.

You will transform onboarding into an AI-native, highly automated experience, orchestrating workflows, managing APIs and platform primitives, and guiding multiple product teams toward scalable, product-led growth.

Qualifications

• Exceptional Engineering Leadership: proven ability to hire, develop, and retain senior engineers while maintaining high execution quality.
• Deep Technical Foundation: strong backend, distributed systems, APIs, workflow and platform infrastructure.
• AI-Native product mindset: experience applying AI to rethink workflows and building AI-enabled experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a high-performing senior engineering team across AI, onboarding, growth, and product platform infrastructure.
• Own AI-first onboarding: define architecture, APIs, agent interfaces, and platform primitives for AI-driven workflows.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Backend systems

Distributed architecture

AI product mindset

Product sense

Platform thinking

Ambiguity tolerance

Cross-functional leadership

Data-driven problem solving

Executive communication

Growth orientation

Job description

Rippling is seeking a deeply technical Senior Engineering Manager to lead the AI Onboarding engineering team, shaping a high-impact product platform that drives activation and growth across Rippling products.

You will transform onboarding into an AI-native, highly automated experience, orchestrating workflows, managing APIs and platform primitives, and guiding multiple product teams toward scalable, product-led growth.