Senior Product Design Lead, AI Platform — Equity

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 177,000 - 295,000; Full time

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