Senior Director, App Platform & Developer Ecosystem

Rippling; New York (NY); On-site; USD 201,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a Senior Director of Product, App Platform to define how applications are built on Rippling and how data is modeled in the Object Graph. You will own primitives including the Object Graph, Object Platform, Custom Apps, Workflows, Functions, Documents, Supergroups, Sites, Globalization, and related capabilities.

The right leader has built for developers before and can simplify complex platform design.

Qualifications

• 12+ years building and leading technical products or platforms.
• Experience leading a developer platform used by internal and external developers.
• Technical background to make architecture decisions with senior engineers across data models, APIs, permissions, system boundaries, reliability, tooling, and developer workflows.
• First-hand experience with AI-native development workflows and clear judgment about what coding agents need from a platform.
• Excellent product judgment and a proven ability to turn distinct platform capabilities into a clear product strategy and roadmap.
• Experience leading and developing technical product teams.
• Comfort creating clarity in ambiguous, early, or newly elevated product areas.
• Strong leadership across Engineering, Design, GTM, Operations, and customer-facing teams.

Responsibilities

• Define the App Platform strategy. Define how Rippling's app primitives come together into a scalable developer platform that enables internal and external developers to build software for Rippling customers.
• Lead the Object Graph and Object Platform roadmap. Scale the shared model of a company - the people, resources, and relationships that Rippling applications are built on - so developers can build apps that operate across all functions within a company.
• Make developers the customer. Design for developers with an AI-native developer experience across the spectrum of building, deploying, and operating production software.
• Build and lead the team. Hire, coach, and develop product leaders for a broad, technically complex, and strategically important product area.
• Drive ecosystem impact. Own the foundation for third-party developers to build and sell software on Rippling.

Skills

12+ years experience

Developer platform leadership

Technical architecture

AI-native development

Product strategy & roadmap

Technical product leadership

Ambiguity management

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

APIs

Data modeling

Platform tooling

Job description

Rippling is seeking a Senior Director of Product, App Platform to define how applications are built on Rippling and how data is modeled in the Object Graph. You will own primitives including the Object Graph, Object Platform, Custom Apps, Workflows, Functions, Documents, Supergroups, Sites, Globalization, and related capabilities.

The right leader has built for developers before and can simplify complex platform design.