Senior Design Leader, AI Platform & Enterprise SaaS

Rippling, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a Senior Manager of Product Design for the AI Platform to lead the design of AI-enabled experiences across the product suite, including agents, workflows, approvals, and trust patterns. You will mentor designers while staying close to craft, systems thinking, and strategic product direction.

Partner with Product, Engineering, and Research to translate opportunities into coherent, ship-ready experiences that feel consistent across HR, IT, Finance, and admin surfaces.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of overall product design experience in complex B2B/enterprise SaaS or AI product environments.
• 3+ years of product design management experience.
• Strong systems thinking connecting surfaces, workflows, permissions, and dependencies.
• Ability to create reusable interaction patterns or design-system primitives.
• Fluency in AI product challenges: model uncertainty, explainability, human-in-the-loop decisions, feedback loops.

Responsibilities

• Lead Product Design for AI Platform, shaping interaction models, UX patterns, and design principles across Rippling AI experiences.
• Manage, coach, and uplift designers in ambiguous, high-leverage platform spaces.
• Define reusable patterns for agents, generated UI, approvals, trust, explainability, and user control.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to translate AI opportunities into ship-ready experiences.
• Drive cross-product alignment for consistent AI experiences across HR, IT, Finance, workflows, and admin surfaces.
• Leverage customer insight, product data, and market feedback to identify high-leverage design opportunities.
• Create operating rituals for design reviews, pattern adoption, quality control, and cross-functional decisions.
• Help attract, evaluate, and hire senior design talent for Product Design and AI Platform.

Skills

Product design leadership

Systems thinking

AI product understanding

Cross-functional leadership

Design systems

Portfolio of shipped products

Job description

Rippling is seeking a Senior Manager of Product Design for the AI Platform to lead the design of AI-enabled experiences across the product suite, including agents, workflows, approvals, and trust patterns. You will mentor designers while staying close to craft, systems thinking, and strategic product direction.

Partner with Product, Engineering, and Research to translate opportunities into coherent, ship-ready experiences that feel consistent across HR, IT, Finance, and admin surfaces.