Product Design Lead, Finance

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

A tech company is seeking a Product Design Lead to drive the vision for its Spend Management Platform. You will create a unified experience across spend tools and collaborate with teams to ensure effortless design solutions. The ideal candidate has 6-8 years of product design experience, exceptional interaction and visual design skills, and a customer-focused mindset. This role offers a competitive salary range from $144,000 to $252,000, depending on experience and location.

Qualifications

• 6–8+ years of end-to-end product design experience shipping complex, high-impact products.
• Portfolio showcasing ability to simplify complex workflows.
• Ability to produce polished work and communicate clear specs.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term vision for Rippling's Spend Management Platform.
• Translate complex finance workflows into simple experiences.
• Deliver flows for employees and finance leaders.

Skills

Product design experience

Interaction design

Visual design craft

Strong communication and storytelling

Customer focus

Job description

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.

About the role

Spend is one of the most complex systems inside a company, and one of the most visible. Employees need to book travel, pay vendors, and get reimbursed without friction. Finance teams need control, compliance, and clean books without becoming the “no” department. Most solutions make you choose: powerful but painful, or simple but limited.

Rippling is building a Spend Management Platform that refuses that tradeoff. Instead of stitching together corporate cards, bill pay, expenses, procurement, travel, and global spend across multiple tools, we’re designing it as one connected experience. It’s natively linked to Rippling’s HR and payroll system, so it already knows your org, roles, and policies. Policies apply automatically, approvals route instantly, and reconciliation and reporting stay accurate because every transaction is tied to real people, departments, and budgets. For admins, it’s real-time control without the manual chase. For employees, it just works.

As Product Design Lead for Finance, you’ll set the vision for Rippling’s Spend platform and drive it from concept to shipped reality. You’ll lead design for surfaces like cards, expenses, bill pay, procurement, travel, and reporting, creating experiences that feel effortless for employees and powerful enough for global finance teams. You’ll set a high bar for craft and usability, build deep trust with Product and Engineering through strong execution, and define patterns that scale from a one-person startup to a 10,000-person company.

If you’re ready to redesign how money moves through modern companies, let’s talk.

What you will do

• Help define the long-term vision for Rippling’s Spend Management Platform, bringing together products like Cards, Travel, Expenses, and Bill Pay into a cohesive hub for global finance.
• Partner with Research to deeply understand complex finance workflows, then translate that complexity into simple, cross-product experiences that set Rippling apart.
• Design for both employees and finance leaders, delivering flows that feel effortless day to day while providing the control, compliance, and visibility required at scale.
• Champion a consumer-grade quality bar, elevating craft across the Finance Suite and mentoring designers in systems thinking, interaction design, and visual polish.
• Collaborate tightly with Product and Engineering to make high-velocity decisions, ship with urgency, and advocate relentlessly for customers at every step.

What you will need

• 6–8+ years of end-to-end product design experience shipping complex, high-impact products from concept to launch, then iterating based on what you learn.
• A portfolio that shows you can turn messy, ambiguous problems into simple, intuitive workflows, especially in complex domains.
• Strong interaction and visual design craft, with the ability to produce polished work across edge cases and states, and communicate clear, build-ready specs.
• Relentless customer focus, backed by a habit of digging into real behavior, identifying pain points, and designing solutions that solve meaningful problems.
• Excellent communication and storytelling, from crisp async write-ups to persuasive presentations that drive alignment and decisions.
• A track record of working effectively with Product and Engineering, moving quickly while holding a high quality bar.
• Comfort operating in fast-moving environments, juggling multiple work-streams, unblocking dependencies, and owning timelines with minimal oversight.

Additional Information

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics. Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email [e-mail]

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.

The pay range for this role is:

144,000-252,000 USD per year (US Tier 1)