Sr. Product Design Manager – HRIS | India Design Site Lead

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.

At Rippling, Design is central to our mission to free smart people to tackle hard problems. We build products that automate the operational complexity of running a business—from HR and payroll to IT and finance—so our customers can focus on what matters most. In a world of fragmented, outdated systems, we’re creating a modern, unified platform where thoughtful design turns complexity into clarity and confidence.

• →Lead and grow a team of product designers across the HCM product suite, driving high-impact work across HR, Talent, Benefits, and Workforce Management.
• →Design and deliver complex, business-critical experiences that are intuitive, scalable, and trustworthy across global and regulatory contexts.
• →Define and drive AI-native experiences that radically simplify administrator and employee workflows—leveraging automation, intelligent defaults, and agentic systems to reduce operational overhead.
• →Set a high bar for craft, quality, and execution—mentoring designers, providing actionable feedback, and creating an environment where designers do the best work of their careers.
• →Drive end-to-end product thinking—from early problem definition and research through execution and iteration—across both 0→1 initiatives and mature product areas.
• →Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders to define product strategy, prioritize initiatives, and deliver against ambitious roadmaps.
• →Establish and reinforce systems thinking across the team—creating patterns and frameworks that scale across products and ensure consistency across Rippling’s platform.
• →Translate complex operational, compliance, and workforce challenges into simple, elegant user experiences for both administrators and employees.
• →Champion a deep understanding of customers, especially in high-complexity domains like global HR, compliance, and hourly workforce management.
• →Contribute to and evolve Rippling’s design system, ensuring consistency and quality across surfaces while enabling teams to move quickly.
• →Drive alignment across teams working on interdependent systems, ensuring cohesive experiences across HRIS, Time, and the broader Rippling platform.
• →Serve as the India Site Lead for Design, fostering a vibrant local office culture, driving team collaboration, and providing site-wide operational leadership.

• →10+ years of professional product design experience, with 5+ years leading and managing design teams.
• →Proven track record of delivering high-impact, customer-facing products in complex domains such as HCM/HRIS, fintech, enterprise software, or workforce management.
• →Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and large problem spaces, turning complex systems into intuitive, user-friendly experiences.
• →Strong systems thinking, with experience designing across interconnected products or platforms and creating scalable patterns and frameworks.
• →Experience defining and shipping AI-native or automation-driven product experiences, including intelligent workflows, decision support, or agentic systems that reduce user effort.
• →Experience owning and delivering end-to-end product design—from strategy and roadmap definition through execution and QA.
• →Proven ability to lead, mentor, and grow designers across different levels of experience, raising the overall quality bar of the team.
• →Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional partners and drive alignment across teams.
• →Strong product sense and judgment, with the ability to balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
• →A deep customer focus, with experience translating real-world workflows (e.g., HR operations, scheduling, compliance) into effective product experiences.
• →A bias toward action and ownership—you thrive in fast-paced environments and are comfortable driving clarity and direction in evolving problem spaces.
• →Strong leadership presence with the ability to manage site operations and cultivate a high-performing design community in the India office.

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.