{"uuid":"ea9eda50-a3a8-40e9-b6d3-a525f420eece","name":"Senior Director of Product, App Platform","description":{"company":"<div><body><h2 style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;'><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">About Rippling</strong></b></h2><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px 10pt;padding:0px;'><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 systems like payroll, expenses, benefits, computers, and third-party apps so companies can manage and automate the employee lifecycle in one system.</span></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px 10pt;padding:0px;'><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Based in San Francisco, Rippling has raised $1.85B+ from investors including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, Bedrock, GIC, Elad Gil, and Goldman Sachs, and was named one of America’s best startup employers by Forbes. </span></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px 10pt;padding:0px;'><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Official candidate communication will only come from @Rippling.com addresses.</span></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><br></p></body></div>","role":"<div><body><h2 style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;'><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">About the role</strong></b></h2><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px 10pt;padding:0px;'><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling is building a platform allowing developers to build custom applications that run on Rippling, connect those applications to custom data, and deploy agents that do work using that data for our customers. What makes the platform special is the Object Graph, which connects all of a company’s data in one place, and core business primitives like Documents, Supergroups, and Workflows, which allow developers to create business applications that work across a company's data. This role owns the application foundation and Object Graph that make Rippling distinctive.</span></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px 10pt;padding:0px;'><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">As Senior Director of Product, App Platform, you will define the strategy for how applications are built on Rippling and how a company’s data is modeled in our Object Graph. You will own key 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 make complex platform architecture feel simple to build with.</span></p><h2 style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;'><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What you will do</strong></b></h2><ul style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",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);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Set the App Platform strategy. </strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">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.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Lead the Object Graph and Object Platform roadmap.</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> 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.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Make developers the customer. </strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Design for developers with an AI-native developer experience across the spectrum of building, deploying, and operating production software. </span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Build and lead the team. </strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Hire, coach, and develop product leaders for a broad, technically complex, and strategically important product area.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px 10pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Drive ecosystem impact. </strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Own the foundation for third-party developers to build and sell software on Rippling.</span></li></ul><h2 style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;'><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What you will need</strong></b></h2><ul style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",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);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">12+ years building and leading technical products or platforms in engineering, product management, or both.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience leading a developer platform used by both internal and external developers, including turning internal capabilities into an external product.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">A technical background deep enough to make architecture decisions with senior engineers across data models, APIs, permissions, system boundaries, reliability, tooling, and developer workflows.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">First-hand experience with AI-native development workflows and clear judgment about what coding agents need from a platform.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Excellent product judgment and a proven ability to turn distinct platform capabilities into a clear product strategy and roadmap.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience leading and developing technical product teams.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Comfort creating clarity in ambiguous, early, or newly elevated product areas.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong leadership across Engineering, Design, GTM, Operations, and customer-facing teams.</span></li></ul><h2 style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;font-size:29pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-left:0px;'><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Nice to have</strong></b></h2><ul style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",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);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience with third-party developer ecosystems, software marketplaces, or enterprise application platforms.</span></li></ul><h2 style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;'><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Additional Information</strong></b></h2><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><span style=\"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 accommodations@rippling.com</span></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",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:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture.  For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.</span></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",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:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. 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