{"uuid":"8e8e5326-59e4-4f4d-9b69-445d19644ff4","name":"Senior Engineering Manager - Tax Platform ","description":{"company":"<meta><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;text-align:start;padding-left:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">About Rippling  </strong></b></h2><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Based in San Francisco, CA, </span><a href=\"https://www.rippling.com/careers#:~:text=GLOBAL%20EMPLOYEES-,%241.4B%2B,-RAISED%20TO%20DATE\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https://www.rippling.com/careers#:~:text=GLOBAL%20EMPLOYEES-,%241.4B%2B,-RAISED%20TO%20DATE\" class=\"css-173makr-linkStyle\" style=\"color:rgb(30,74,169);cursor:pointer;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling has raised $1.8B+</span></a><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @</span><a href=\"http://www.rippling.com/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http://www.rippling.com/\" class=\"css-173makr-linkStyle\" style=\"color:rgb(30,74,169);cursor:pointer;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling.com</span></a><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> addresses.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p>","role":"<meta><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">About Rippling</strong></b></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.85B+ from the world's top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.</span></p><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:29pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;text-align:justify;padding-left:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">About the Tax Platform: </strong></b></h2><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling's Tax Calculation engine is the computational core of our payroll platform - the system that ensures every dollar withheld and remitted is accurate, compliant, and explainable for every employee, in every jurisdiction, at any scale. This role leads the team responsible for computing taxes correctly across 5,000+ US tax codes for 1M+ employees today, and expanding that precision globally to 10+ countries tomorrow.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">The team is at a critical inflection point. We are making significant investments to stabilize and harden the tax engine - reducing operational toil, eliminating manual interventions, and building toward a system that is fully autonomous and self-correcting. This is not a role for someone who wants to manage from a distance. We need a leader who will go deep, get their hands dirty, and drive the technical and operational transformation from the front.</span></p><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:29pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;text-align:justify;padding-left:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">What You Will Need</strong></b></h2><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager who combines technical depth with strong execution instincts. This role requires someone who can earn the trust of a senior engineering team by understanding the system as well as they do — and then leading it to a better place.</span></p><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;\"><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Technical Depth</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Must be comfortable going deep into complex systems — reading code, debugging production issues, reviewing architecture, and identifying root causes. Hands-on instinct is essential at this stage of the team's journey.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Operational Transformation</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Experience taking a high-toil, operationally demanding system and driving it toward stability and autonomy. Track record of identifying systemic issues and fixing them, not just managing around them.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Product &amp; Platform Experience</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Hands-on experience building scalable platform systems end-to-end. Comfortable owning both technical architecture and product outcomes.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Stakeholder Collaboration</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams — Payroll, Compliance, Finance Engineering, and global stakeholders.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Execution-Driven</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Clear track record of setting roadmaps, defining milestones, and shipping in high-ambiguity environments.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">People Leadership</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Minimum 5 years in a managerial role, including 2+ years managing managers, with 7–8 years as an IC prior.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Domain Affinity</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Experience in payroll, tax, fintech, or high-correctness financial systems is strongly preferred.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Communication</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Clear and effective communication, especially across distributed teams and with non-engineering stakeholders.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience Range</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Total 12–17 years (IC + Managerial).</span></li></ul><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:29pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;\"><br><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">What You'll Own</strong></b></h2><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;\"><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">System Stabilization &amp; Operational Excellence</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Take direct ownership of reducing the team's operational burden. Identify root causes of recurring failures, manual workflows, and correctness gaps. Drive systematic fixes — not workarounds — until the engine runs autonomously with minimal human intervention.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Tax Calculation Engine at Scale</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Own and evolve the core engine that computes federal, state, and local taxes across 5,000+ US tax codes for millions of employees — with correctness and sub-SLA latency as non-negotiable constraints.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">AI-Powered Tax Explainability</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Lead the effort to use AI to surface granular, human-readable explanations of every tax calculation — breaking down why each dollar was withheld, referencing the underlying rule, rate table, or exemption that drove it.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Enterprise Scale Performance</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Architect the tax computation pipeline to support companies with 50,000+ employees within strict SLAs — solving for parallelism, caching, incremental recomputation, and latency under payroll run pressure.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Global Tax Expansion</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Design and ship the abstractions that allow the tax engine to scale beyond the US into 10+ countries — building a jurisdiction-agnostic calculation framework that accommodates fundamentally different tax models (PAYE, social contributions, withholding tables, multi-tier brackets).</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Country Expansion Enablement</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Build the tooling and frameworks that allow Rippling to onboard a new country's tax rules without rewriting the engine — enabling rapid country launches with high confidence in correctness.</span></li></ul><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:29pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;text-align:justify;padding-left:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Additional Information</strong></b></h2><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics. Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email </span><a href=\"mailto:accomodations@rippling.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-173makr-linkStyle\" style=\"color:rgb(30,74,169);cursor:pointer;\"><u><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,238);font-size:11pt;text-decoration:underline;white-space:pre-wrap;\">accomodations@rippling.com</span></u></a><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. 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It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.85B+ from the world's top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.</span></p><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:29pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;text-align:justify;padding-left:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">About the Tax Platform: </strong></b></h2><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling's Tax Calculation engine is the computational core of our payroll platform - the system that ensures every dollar withheld and remitted is accurate, compliant, and explainable for every employee, in every jurisdiction, at any scale. This role leads the team responsible for computing taxes correctly across 5,000+ US tax codes for 1M+ employees today, and expanding that precision globally to 10+ countries tomorrow.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">The team is at a critical inflection point. We are making significant investments to stabilize and harden the tax engine - reducing operational toil, eliminating manual interventions, and building toward a system that is fully autonomous and self-correcting. This is not a role for someone who wants to manage from a distance. We need a leader who will go deep, get their hands dirty, and drive the technical and operational transformation from the front.</span></p><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:29pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;text-align:justify;padding-left:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">What You Will Need</strong></b></h2><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager who combines technical depth with strong execution instincts. This role requires someone who can earn the trust of a senior engineering team by understanding the system as well as they do — and then leading it to a better place.</span></p><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;\"><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Technical Depth</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Must be comfortable going deep into complex systems — reading code, debugging production issues, reviewing architecture, and identifying root causes. Hands-on instinct is essential at this stage of the team's journey.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Operational Transformation</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Experience taking a high-toil, operationally demanding system and driving it toward stability and autonomy. Track record of identifying systemic issues and fixing them, not just managing around them.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Product &amp; Platform Experience</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Hands-on experience building scalable platform systems end-to-end. Comfortable owning both technical architecture and product outcomes.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Stakeholder Collaboration</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams — Payroll, Compliance, Finance Engineering, and global stakeholders.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Execution-Driven</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Clear track record of setting roadmaps, defining milestones, and shipping in high-ambiguity environments.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">People Leadership</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Minimum 5 years in a managerial role, including 2+ years managing managers, with 7–8 years as an IC prior.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Domain Affinity</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Experience in payroll, tax, fintech, or high-correctness financial systems is strongly preferred.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Communication</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Clear and effective communication, especially across distributed teams and with non-engineering stakeholders.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience Range</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Total 12–17 years (IC + Managerial).</span></li></ul><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:29pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;\"><br><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">What You'll Own</strong></b></h2><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;\"><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">System Stabilization &amp; Operational Excellence</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Take direct ownership of reducing the team's operational burden. Identify root causes of recurring failures, manual workflows, and correctness gaps. Drive systematic fixes — not workarounds — until the engine runs autonomously with minimal human intervention.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Tax Calculation Engine at Scale</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Own and evolve the core engine that computes federal, state, and local taxes across 5,000+ US tax codes for millions of employees — with correctness and sub-SLA latency as non-negotiable constraints.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">AI-Powered Tax Explainability</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Lead the effort to use AI to surface granular, human-readable explanations of every tax calculation — breaking down why each dollar was withheld, referencing the underlying rule, rate table, or exemption that drove it.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Enterprise Scale Performance</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Architect the tax computation pipeline to support companies with 50,000+ employees within strict SLAs — solving for parallelism, caching, incremental recomputation, and latency under payroll run pressure.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Global Tax Expansion</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Design and ship the abstractions that allow the tax engine to scale beyond the US into 10+ countries — building a jurisdiction-agnostic calculation framework that accommodates fundamentally different tax models (PAYE, social contributions, withholding tables, multi-tier brackets).</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Country Expansion Enablement</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">: Build the tooling and frameworks that allow Rippling to onboard a new country's tax rules without rewriting the engine — enabling rapid country launches with high confidence in correctness.</span></li></ul><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:29pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;text-align:justify;padding-left:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Additional Information</strong></b></h2><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics. Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email </span><a href=\"mailto:accomodations@rippling.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-173makr-linkStyle\" style=\"color:rgb(30,74,169);cursor:pointer;\"><u><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,238);font-size:11pt;text-decoration:underline;white-space:pre-wrap;\">accomodations@rippling.com</span></u></a><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. 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