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

Rippling’s Recruiting and Headcount Planning products help companies manage and control their hiring process at scale, ranging from organizational planning to candidate experience. Success in this role is key to achieving our growth goals and becoming a leader in the overall all-in-one HRIS market, and these apps are a critical component of Rippling’s overall enterprise strategy.

As the Product Lead for Rippling Recruiting and Headcount Planning, you will own the vision, strategy, and execution of these key product areas. You will lead a dedicated engineering and design team, working across the full product lifecycle—from roadmap development and engineering coordination to go-to-market strategy and customer engagement. This high-impact role offers significant executive visibility, and you will be responsible for driving the product’s growth and evolution in alignment with Rippling’s broader goals.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Rippling Recruiting (ATS) and Headcount Planning.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, and cross-functional teams to prioritize and deliver new features and enhancements.
• Develop deep relationships with customers to understand their needs and identify high-impact opportunities for product improvements.
• Lead product launches, including go-to-market strategies, messaging, and sales enablement.
• Work closely with executives and stakeholders to align product direction with company goals.
• Analyze product performance and customer feedback to iterate and refine features that drive engagement and satisfaction.
• Manage competing priorities and ensure that development timelines are met.

What you will need

• 8+ years of Product Management experience
• Self-starter with a bias towards action
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Have owned both 0-to-1 product launches and products at scale
• Helicopter pilot mentality - you can easily switch from high level strategy and planning to UI polish and data model details
• Exceptional written and verbal communication and comfortable working in a highly cross-functional role
• Talent SaaS and/or previous founder experience a plus
• Strong alignment with our leadership principles: in particular Go and See, and Are Right, a Lot

About the team

The Recruiting and Headcount R&D team supports Rippling and our clients to plan, find, and hire the best talent in the world. We currently have 15 engineers and 2 designers and are largely San Francisco based.

Rippling Recruiting and Headcount both launched within the last two years and have grown to thousands of clients and sales in the $xxM range. These are high growth apps in their expansion stage with strong product market fit. 

Even if you don’t meet all of the requirements listed here, we still encourage you to apply. Skills can be used in lots of different ways and your life and professional experience may be relevant beyond what a list of requirements will capture.

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.