Product Design Lead, Spend & Finance Platform

Rippling (Netherlands); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is building a Spend Management Platform that unifies cards, travel, expenses, and bill pay into one connected experience. It sits beside Rippling’s HR and payroll system, knows your org, roles, and policies, and applies approvals automatically.

As a designer, you will shape long-term vision, partner with Research, design for employees and finance leaders, mentor others, and work with Product and Engineering to move fast while keeping quality high.

Qualifications

• 7-8+ years of end-to-end product design experience shipping complex, high-impact products.
• Portfolio showing ability to turn messy, ambiguous problems into simple workflows.
• Strong interaction and visual design craft with edge-case/state polish.
• Relentless customer focus backed by digging into real behavior.
• Excellent communication and storytelling for async writes and persuasive presentations.
• Proven track record of working with Product and Engineering at speed with high quality.
• Comfort operating in fast-moving environments with multiple workstreams.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

End-to-end design

Portfolio demonstration

Interaction design

Visual design

Customer focus

Communication

Collaboration with product/engineering

Fast-moving environments

Job description

Rippling is building a Spend Management Platform that unifies cards, travel, expenses, and bill pay into one connected experience. It sits beside Rippling’s HR and payroll system, knows your org, roles, and policies, and applies approvals automatically.

As a designer, you will shape long-term vision, partner with Research, design for employees and finance leaders, mentor others, and work with Product and Engineering to move fast while keeping quality high.