Product Design Lead — AI-Driven Workforce Platform (Equity)

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

Job summary

Rippling in the United States is seeking an experienced product designer to shape the next generation of hourly workforce tools. You will define ambiguous opportunities, prototype deeply, and own outcomes from ideation to shipping, with AI embedded at every step.

You will work closely with product and engineering to craft scalable experiences across forecasting, scheduling, time and attendance, and team communications, while mentoring designers and advocating accessible, inclusive design across

Qualifications

• 8+ years of end-to-end product design experience with a portfolio.
• Active use of LLMs (Claude, ChatGPT, or similar) in your design workflow.
• Comfort with AI-assisted prototyping tools (Cursor, Claude Code, or similar).
• A strong eye for craft, both interaction and visual, with the ability to set a high bar and drive quality across teams.
• A relentless customer focus and desire to dig deep to understand real user needs and translate them into design decisions that solve real problems.
• Exceptional communication skills, making abstract concepts understandable and guiding cross‑functional partners through tough decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design exceptional product experiences for modern workforce management across forecasting, scheduling, time and attendance, team communication, and the operational workflows that connect them.
• Get close to customers to understand how managers and admins actually run hourly teams: where workflows break, where complexity hides, and where better design can drive real business impact.
• Design scalable capabilities and platform patterns that work for multiple products, customer segments, and use cases, creating coherent experiences across Rippling’s broader platform.
• Use AI as a core part of your design process to clarify problem spaces, generate and refine requirements, explore edge cases, and pressure-test solutions before they reach production.
• Prototype with AI‑assisted tools to make ideas tangible quickly, explore realistic interactions, and validate solutions through working flows rather than static mocks alone.
• Develop a hands‑on understanding of evolving AI capabilities by building with it, and bringing the knowledge into your product and design decisions.

Skills

End-to-end product design

LLM usage in design workflow

AI-assisted prototyping

Strong craft in interaction/visual

Customer focus

Excellent communication

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Job description

Rippling in the United States is seeking an experienced product designer to shape the next generation of hourly workforce tools. You will define ambiguous opportunities, prototype deeply, and own outcomes from ideation to shipping, with AI embedded at every step.

You will work closely with product and engineering to craft scalable experiences across forecasting, scheduling, time and attendance, and team communications, while mentoring designers and advocating accessible, inclusive design across