Product Design Lead, AI-Driven IT Platform

Rippling; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a Product Design Lead for the IT domain to shape a fast-growing, strategic investment. You will craft the design strategy, create north-star experiences, and define scalable systems that make complex IT workflows intuitive yet powerful.

You will partner with product, engineering, and research to turn ambitious bets into cohesive Rippling experiences. You will need deep customer focus, strong communication, and ownership to ship designs that balance clarity with depth for

Qualifications

• 8+ years of end-to-end product design experience shipping complex products.
• Portfolio shows systems thinking and craft for ambiguous domains.
• Experience with technically complex products and enterprise-grade controls.
• Strong collaboration with engineers on AI systems and platform primitives.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term design vision for Rippling IT, creating a cohesive AI-native platform.
• Shape domain strategy, identify high-leverage problems, influence roadmap priorities.
• Lead design from discovery through early product-market fit with data-driven insights.
• Design holistic experiences for admins, security teams, CIOs, and employees.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to simplify complex problems into strong UX.
• Define patterns to create a cohesive, scalable Rippling IT experience across products.
• Use AI and prototyping tools to accelerate exploration and testing.

Skills

Product design

Systems thinking

Prototyping

AI collaboration

Interaction design

Visual design

Customer research

Communication

Ownership

Tools

Prototyping tools

Job description

Rippling is seeking a Product Design Lead for the IT domain to shape a fast-growing, strategic investment. You will craft the design strategy, create north-star experiences, and define scalable systems that make complex IT workflows intuitive yet powerful.

You will partner with product, engineering, and research to turn ambitious bets into cohesive Rippling experiences. You will need deep customer focus, strong communication, and ownership to ship designs that balance clarity with depth for