Product Lead, Payroll

Rippling; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Rippling, based in Seattle, Washington, is seeking a Product Lead for Payroll to orchestrate the next generation of intelligent payroll workflows within its unified platform. This role focuses on building agentic payroll capabilities and simplifying complex enterprise processes while ensuring compliance across jurisdictions.

You will partner with engineering and design to deliver scalable capabilities and work directly with customers to identify high-impact opportunities.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of product management experience or equivalent founder experience.
• Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with bias toward action.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Design intuitive product experiences for payroll and enterprise workflows.
• Define and build agentic payroll capabilities powered by AI.
• Collaborate with engineering and design to scale platform capabilities.
• Engage customers to understand pain points and identify opportunities.
• Coordinate with Payments, HRIS, Benefits, Time, Spend, Compliance, and other areas to deliver platform enhancements.
• Drive strategy and execution for highly reliable and compliant systems.

Skills

Product management

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Communication

Customer empathy

Job description

Product Lead, Payroll

Rippling, Seattle, Washington, United States

About this position

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

Rippling is building compound software—a unified system where data from across the business is connected through a single graph. Global Payroll sits at the center of that system. It powers critical money movement workflows triggered by changes across the business: promotions, timecards, benefits updates, expense reimbursements, and more. Unlike traditional payroll providers that stitch together disconnected point solutions, Rippling’s platform is deeply integrated, automated, and traceable end‑to‑end. This platform is foundational to Rippling’s business and a key reason customers choose us. The stakes are high: the system must operate flawlessly while complying with regulations across all 50 U.S. states and multiple countries.

We’re looking for a seasoned product leader to help scale Rippling’s Global Payroll platform for international enterprise customers, including building the next generation of intelligent and agentic payroll workflows.

What you will do

• Design intuitive product experiences that simplify complex payroll and enterprise workflows
• Define and build agentic payroll capabilities powered by AI
• Partner closely with engineering and design to develop scalable platform capabilities that unlock value across multiple use cases
• Work directly with customers to deeply understand operational pain points and identify high‑impact opportunities
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with teams across Payments, HRIS, Benefits, Time, Spend, Compliance, and other product areas to deliver major platform enhancements
• Drive product strategy and execution for systems that require high reliability, compliance, and scalability

What you will need

• 6+ years of product management experience, or equivalent founder experience
• Strong technical, analytical, and problem‑solving skills
• Ability to thrive in fast‑paced, ambiguous environments with a strong bias toward action
• Track record of turning complex systems into simple, elegant user experiences
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills
• Ability to motivate and align cross‑functional teams around ambitious goals
• Deep customer empathy and strong product judgment
• Strong alignment with Rippling’s leadership principles, especially:
  • Push the limits of possible
  • Challenge each other
  • Go and see

If you don’t meet every qualification listed, we still encourage you to apply. Skills and experiences can show up in many forms, and we value diverse perspectives and backgrounds.

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: 153,000 - 255,000 USD per year (US San Francisco Bay Area)