Global HRIS Product Lead - Payroll & EOR

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a Product Lead for Global HRIS to own our Global Employer of Record and payroll products end to end. You’ll shape strategy for country expansion, payroll controls, and operational tooling across 100+ countries, coordinating with Engineering, Payroll, Legal, and Compliance.

You’ll build scalable, compliant workflows that enable rapid market entry while protecting customers from financial and regulatory risk.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience leading complex, high-stakes products.
• Experience in payroll, global employment, fintech, HR systems, or regulated operations.
• Strong product judgment balancing breadth and depth across roadmaps.
• Systems thinking across data models, APIs, operations and partners.
• Track record of simplifying complex workflows while preserving compliance.
• Strong analytical and commercial judgment linking investments to adoption and revenue.
• Technical fluency to influence architecture, integrations, reliability and performance.
• Cross-functional leadership across engineering, design, operations, legal, compliance, finance, sales, and support.
• Experience guiding multiple teams and delivering interdependent initiatives.
• AI fluency and a clear perspective on safe AI in workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap across Premium, Standard, and Partner EOR and Standard Global Payroll.
• Make explicit portfolio tradeoffs between new-market expansion, competitive product depth, operational scalability, reliability, and financial risk.
• Define country and SKU launch readiness across the complete customer journey—not merely engineering completion—including hiring, onboarding, payroll, funding, compliance, support, and go-to-market readiness.
• Build the control and visibility customers need to confidently run global payroll, including payroll preview and editing, approvals, pay schedules, external time-and-attendance inputs, multi-region support, currency flexibility, exports, and reconciliation.
• Improve the EOR employee and admin experience while driving cross-team dependencies such as work patterns, hourly and overnight-shift support, contract requirements, and country-specific hiring rules.
• Build the controls that allow EOR to scale safely, including underwriting, deposits and collateral, hiring restrictions, liability visibility, partner-invoice auditability, reconciliation, and expense compliance.
• Reduce operational effort and payroll cycle time through better onboarding, reporting, exception management, cross-client tooling, partner experiences, automation, and AI.
• Treat payroll accuracy, system reliability, API performance, data integrity, and auditability as core product outcomes—not engineering or operations concerns.

Skills

Product management

Payroll

Global employment

Fintech

HR systems

Compliance

Cross-functional leadership

Systems thinking

Analytical skills

Technical fluency

AI fluency

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Rippling is seeking a Product Lead for Global HRIS to own our Global Employer of Record and payroll products end to end. You’ll shape strategy for country expansion, payroll controls, and operational tooling across 100+ countries, coordinating with Engineering, Payroll, Legal, and Compliance.

You’ll build scalable, compliant workflows that enable rapid market entry while protecting customers from financial and regulatory risk.