Senior AI Developer Experience Lead

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive salary

Benefits

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, AI Developer Experience, to lead the team that enhances developer productivity across the organization. You will own local development tools, CI/CD platforms, and AI-powered workflows to streamline coding, testing, and deployment.

You will define the long-term strategy for AI-driven software development, mentor senior engineers, and work with leaders to remove bottlenecks, accelerate delivery, and improve developer satisfaction in a fast-evolving

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• 4+ years of engineering management experience.
• Experience building developer platforms or AI-assisted workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the engineering team responsible for developer productivity.
• Define long-term AI-assisted software development strategy.
• Build and scale AI-powered workflows for coding, testing, debugging, and review.
• Drive adoption of agentic development workflows across engineering.

Skills

Leadership

Strategy

AI in Dev

Developer experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Build systems

Developer platforms

Job description

Rippling is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, AI Developer Experience, to lead the team that enhances developer productivity across the organization. You will own local development tools, CI/CD platforms, and AI-powered workflows to streamline coding, testing, and deployment.

You will define the long-term strategy for AI-driven software development, mentor senior engineers, and work with leaders to remove bottlenecks, accelerate delivery, and improve developer satisfaction in a fast-evolving