Senior Product Design Manager, Finance Products (San Francisco) Job at Rippling

Senior Product Design Manager, Finance Products

Location: San Francisco, CA

Base Pay Range: $200,000.00 $280,000.00 per year

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, such as 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. Bring onboarding, payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and thirdparty apps like Slack and Microsoft 365 into one place within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from top investors including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock, and was named one of Americas best startup employers by Forbes.

We prioritize candidate safety. All official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.

About the Role

At Rippling, design is at the core of our mission to free smart people to tackle hard problems. We help teams automate the mundane, surface insights instantly, and operate with clarity and confidence. In a world of outdated, bloated legacy products, were building business software thats modern, streamlined, and deeply considered.

Our Finance Products orchestrate the movement of billions of dollars every weekpaying employees and contractors, processing invoices, filing taxes, and keeping companies compliant across dozens of countries. When peoples pay, invoices, or tax documents are on the line, good enough doesnt cut it.

Were not just improving financial workflows; were reinventing them. While competitors patch together decadesold systems, Rippling is building the worlds first truly unified global finance platform. One system. Many countries. Many currencies. Every compliance requirement. Its never been done because most assumed it wasnt possible. Our mission is to abstract away staggering complexity and deliver a platform businesses can run on with clarity and confidence.

As Senior Product Designer for Finance Products, youll architect experiences that make the impossible look effortless. Youll take one of the most complex regulatory labyrinths on earththousands of tax codes, labor laws, payment rails, and compliance requirements that change constantlyand transform it into something so beautifully simple it feels like magic. Your decisions will determine how millions of people get paid, how businesses stay compliant, and how Rippling fuels its rocket ship trajectory into enterprise markets and global expansion.

Were looking for fresh perspectives from a seasoned designer who has tackled complex fintech or B2B products. Someone who sees complexity as a canvas, not a constraint. Someone who thrives in highvelocity environments and loves both setting the vision and rolling up their sleeves to bring it to life.

If youre ready to design the future of how money moves through the world of work, lets talk.

What You Will Do

• Lead a team of designers building one of the most ambitious finance platforms in the world: spanning payments, invoicing, tax documentation, compliance workflows, and multicountry money movement.
• 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, adapting 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 Ripplings entire platform.
• Work crossfunctionally with Product, Engineering, and gotomarket partners to plan, design, build, and ship new capabilities that push the limits of possible.
• Create a culture of craft, quality, and execution by inspiring, motivating, and leading product designers across experience levels to do the best work of their careers.

What You Will Need

• 8+ years of professional design experience, with 3+ years leading and managing design teams through complex, highstakes product challenges.
• Proven track record of transforming complexity into elegant simplicity, whether in fintech, enterprise software, compliance tools, or other demanding domains.
• Experience as a systems thinker who has designed integrated product suites, platformlevel capabilities, or feature ecosystems that work seamlessly together.
• Strong leadership skills with experience recruiting, scaling, and developing design teams that consistently deliver high quality craft and operational execution.
• Exceptional communication and influence skills; you can rally crossfunctional teams around a design vision and persuade stakeholders at all levels.
• Relentless customer focus; you dig deep to understand real user needs and translate those insights into design decisions that drive business impact.
• Selfstarter mentality with a bias toward action; you thrive in fastpaced environments and turn ambiguity into clarity.

Additional Information

Rippling is an equalopportunity 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.

Rippling highly values having employees working inoffice to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For officebased 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 employees role.

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

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