About Rippling

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.

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.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ 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.

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About the role

At Rippling, design is core to our mission: freeing smart people to tackle hard problems. Compensation is the strongest lever a company has to drive performance, and variable pay is one of the hardest things to get right.

Every company approaches it differently. Some lean on sales commissions, others on merit cycles or performance bonuses. All of them juggle complex rules, constant changes, and messy data scattered across systems. The result: spreadsheets everywhere, rigid tools nobody likes, and errors that erode trust.

The stakes are huge. For finance, RevOps, HR, and managers, variable pay is one of the largest and most sensitive expenses on the P&L. For employees, it’s their paycheck and a direct measure of their performance. The minimum standard of getting it right is “flawlessly.”

Rippling is building one of the world’s first unified pay calculation systems, flexible enough for incentive plans, merit cycles, commissions, and the long tail of industry-specific use cases. One calculation engine, powering compensation for everyone from salespeople closing deals, to nurses earning shift differentials, to gig workers and frontline staff whose pay changes week to week. All built seamlessly into every system where work and pay intersect.

As Product Design Lead for Variable Compensation, you will define the design vision for one of Rippling’s most strategic bets. You’ll tackle challenges like importing and reconciling massive, third-party data sets, making complex calculations effortless, and giving employees clarity into how their pay connects to their performance. You’ll own a problem space that has rarely seen thoughtful product design, and make it simple enough to feel obvious.

We're looking for fresh perspectives from a seasoned designer who's tackled complex fintech or B2B products. Someone who sees complexity as a canvas, not a constraint. Someone who thrives in high-velocity environments and gets energized by solving problems that have never been solved before.

If you're ready to design the future of how the world gets paid, let's talk.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end design for a product that will reshape how companies approach compensation
• Get close to customers and understand how they actually use the product, what breaks their workflows, and translate those insights into design priorities that drive real business impact
• Anticipate future needs and edge cases, future-proofing designs as we expand into new markets and increasingly complex global scenarios
• Design capabilities and systems that scale across multiple products and use cases, creating coherent experiences across Rippling's entire platform
• Work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and go-to-market partners to plan, design, build, and ship new capabilities that push the limits of possible
• Deliver precise designs and prototypes that communicate complex concepts and interactions clearly to engineering teams and stakeholders

What you will need

• 6+ years of professional product design experience with a track record of shipping complex, high-impact products end to end, from planning to QA
• Proven ability to transform complexity into elegant simplicity, whether in fintech, enterprise software, or other demanding domains
• Strong craft skills with proficiency in design tools and the ability to create compelling, detailed design specifications and prototypes
• Strong communication and collaboration skills; you can articulate design decisions clearly and work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Relentless customer focus; you dig deep to understand real user needs and translate those insights into design decisions that solve meaningful problems
• Self-starter mentality with a bias toward action; you thrive in fast-paced environments and turn ambiguity into clarity through thoughtful design exploration
• Familiarity with generative AI design tools and excitement about how they can expand creative possibilities and accelerate workflow

If you don't necessarily meet all of these requirements, we still encourage you to apply. Skills transfer in unexpected ways, and diverse perspectives often lead to the most innovative solutions.

Additional Information

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 accomodations@rippling.com

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.

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.

The pay range for this role is:

144,000 - 252,000 USD per year (US Tier 1)