Product Lead, Global HRIS

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 the Global Employer of Record and third-party payroll products end to end. You will shape strategy for expanding global coverage, balancing country growth with product depth, and delivering a cohesive experience across employment models, payroll providers, and local regulations.

You will build scalable systems with cross-functional teams to centralize payroll operations, strengthen controls, and reduce operational complexity while

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience in scalable, high-stakes products.
• Experience in payroll, global employment, fintech, or regulated domains.
• Strong product judgment balancing breadth and depth.
• Systems thinking across data models, workflows, APIs, operations, and partners.
• Track record of simplifying complex workflows while preserving compliance.
• Strong analytical and commercial judgment with metrics and ROI.
• Technical fluency to influence architecture, reliability, and performance.
• Cross-functional leadership across engineering, design, operations, legal, compliance, finance, sales, and support.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for Global HRIS, EOR, and Global Payroll.
• Make portfolio tradeoffs between new-market expansion, depth, scalability, reliability, and financial risk.
• Define launch readiness for country and SKU across hiring, onboarding, payroll, and go-to-market.

Skills

Product management

Global payroll

Fintech domain

Regulated domain

Cross-functional leadership

Systems thinking

Job description

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

As a Product Lead for Global HRIS, you will own Rippling's Global Employer of Record and third-party payroll products end to end. Your portfolio will span all EOR models, Standard Global Payroll, country expansion, payroll controls, operational tooling, and the financial and compliance systems required to scale safely across more than 100 countries.

You will set the strategy for how Rippling expands global coverage while building deeper, more scalable products in existing markets. This means making critical tradeoffs between country expansion and product depth, and creating a coherent Rippling experience across different employment models, payroll providers, local regulations, currencies, and pay schedules.

A core part of your role will be building the systems and partner experiences that allow Rippling to centralize payroll operations across these models. You will work closely with Engineering, Design, Payroll, HRIS, Time, Payments, Billing, EOR and Tax Operations, Legal, Compliance, Business Development, Sales, and Customer Experience to launch new markets, strengthen payroll controls, and reduce operational complexity.

Success means turning broad geographic coverage into a differentiated, scalable global payroll product: one that customers can confidently use across markets and that Rippling can operate without proportional growth in manual work, compliance exposure, or financial risk.

What you will do

• 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.
• Define and own a measurable scorecard spanning active employee adoption, revenue, launch readiness, payroll accuracy, customer review time, operational interventions, reconciliation, financial loss, and system performance.
• Lead planning and execution across multiple product and engineering pods, creating clear outcomes, ownership, dependencies, and consequences when priorities shift.
• Develop a deep understanding of global employers, employees, internal operators, and partners through research, product data, and direct customer engagement.
• Communicate strategy, decisions, progress, and risks clearly to senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.

What you will need

• 8+ years of product management experience, including ownership of technically complex, high-stakes products at meaningful scale.
• Experience in payroll, global employment, fintech, HR systems, compliance, or another regulated operational domain.
• Strong product judgment and a demonstrated ability to choose between breadth and depth rather than treating every roadmap item as equally important.
• Systems thinking across interconnected products, data models, workflows, APIs, operations, and third-party partners.
• A track record of simplifying complex workflows while preserving correctness, compliance, and user trust.
• Strong analytical and commercial judgment, including defining metrics, evaluating market opportunities, and connecting roadmap investments to adoption, revenue, operational cost, and risk.
• Technical fluency sufficient to influence architecture, integration, data-quality, reliability, and performance decisions.
• Cross-functional leadership across engineering, design, operations, legal, compliance, finance, sales, and support.
• Experience setting direction across multiple teams or PM-owned workstreams and bringing interdependent initiatives to completion.
• AI fluency in how you work and a clear perspective on where AI can safely improve customer and operational workflows.
• A bias toward action, deep ownership, intellectual honesty, and relentless focus on customer outcomes.

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:

174,000 - 290,000 USD per year (US Tier 1)