Senior Product Design Lead, AI Platform — Equity

Rippling

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 177,000 - 295,000

Full time

9 days ago
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Job summary

Rippling, based in San Francisco, CA, seeks a Senior Manager of Product Design for the AI Platform to lead design across AI-driven experiences. You will coach senior designers, shape patterns for agents and trust, and work with Product, Engineering, and Research to deliver coherent, enterprise-grade AI products.

The role emphasizes systems thinking, design primitives, and strategic impact. The successful candidate will demonstrate 10+ years in product design, 3+ years in management, and a

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of overall product design experience in complex B2B, enterprise SaaS, platform, or AI product environments.
  • 3+ years of product design management, coaching senior designers while maintaining craft and judgment.
  • Strong systems thinking connecting surfaces, workflows, permissions, states, and dependencies.

Responsibilities

  • Lead Product Design for AI Platform, shaping interaction models and design principles across Rippling's AI experiences.
  • Manage and coach designers in ambiguous, high-leverage platform spaces.
  • Define reusable patterns for agents, generated UI, human-in-the-loop approvals, trust, explainability, and error recovery.
  • Translate AI platform opportunities into coherent, shippable product experiences with Product and Engineering.
  • Drive cross-product alignment for consistent, permission-aware AI experiences across HR, IT, Finance, workflows, and admin surfaces.
  • Leverage customer insight, product data, competitive analysis, and team feedback to identify high-leverage design opportunities.
  • Create operating rituals for design reviews, pattern adoption, and decision-making.
  • Help attract and close senior design talent for Product Design and AI Platform.

Skills

Product design
Design leadership
Systems thinking
Design systems
AI product
Cross-functional leadership
Storytelling

Job description

Rippling, based in San Francisco, CA, seeks a Senior Manager of Product Design for the AI Platform to lead design across AI-driven experiences. You will coach senior designers, shape patterns for agents and trust, and work with Product, Engineering, and Research to deliver coherent, enterprise-grade AI products.

The role emphasizes systems thinking, design primitives, and strategic impact. The successful candidate will demonstrate 10+ years in product design, 3+ years in management, and a

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