Product Design Director, Spend Product Design San Francisco, CA (San Francisco)

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. 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 365all within 90 seconds. At Rippling, design is core to our mission: freeing smart people to tackle hard problems. Managing spend is one of the hardestand most importantchallenges companies face. Employees need to book travel, pay vendors, and get reimbursed. Finance teams need visibility, control, and compliance without slowing people down. Rippling is building a Spend Management Platform that refuses that tradeoff. Corporate cards, bill pay, expenses, travel, and global spend all live in one product, connected to the HR and payroll system that already knows your people and policies. Policies enforce themselves. Reconciliation and reporting are always accurate because spend is tied directly to headcount, departments, and budgets. As Product Design Director for Spend, youll set the vision and the quality bar for this platform. Youll unify fragmented workflows into one coherent product, design the systems that make it scale globally, and build a team of designers who ship at speed without compromising craft. Set the vision and quality bar for Ripplings Spend management platform, making it powerful enough for finance leaders and intuitive enough for every employee Unify fragmented workflowscards, expenses, bill pay, travel, and global spendinto one coherent product with consistent patterns, policies, and reporting Design for global scale, ensuring workflows adapt gracefully to different markets, currencies, and compliance needs Make the fundamentals effortless, so everyday tasks like reimbursements, approvals, and reconciliation feel automatic rather than administrative Mentor and grow a world-class design team, running strong critiques, sharpening judgment, and helping designers do the best work of their careers Partner with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional leaders to make fast, high-quality decisions and turn complex constraints into competitive advantages Stay close to customers, translating their pain points into priorities that improve adoption, trust, and measurable business impact 8+ years of product design experience, including 5+ years managing and leading design teams ~ A track record of bringing relentless customer focus to high-impact projects and driving strategic business outcomes through design ~ Strong systems thinking, with experience leading the design of integrated suites or ecosystems ~ Proven success hiring, leading, and scaling design teams at both startups and established companies ~ A history of developing designers and helping them grow to do the best work of their careers 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. 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.