About the position
Rippling's Design team is a 40+ person org spanning Product Design, Research, Content Design, and Design Systems. We partner closely with Product and Engineering across HR, IT, Finance, Growth, and beyond-working on both 0–1 product innovation and scaling existing products globally. As a Director of Product Design, you'll lead a team focused on high-impact, cross-functional work while staying close to the craft. You'll help shape intuitive, flexible, and elegant experiences across complex problem spaces, guiding the team through fast-paced execution and deep collaboration. This is a key leadership role at a pivotal moment in our growth-with years of new product work ahead and a real opportunity to help shape the future of Rippling's product and design culture.
Responsibilities
- Manage a business-critical team that's a top company initiative to build out Rippling products, helping drive Rippling's rapid growth and differentiation.
- Lead a team of designers working on critical product areas across Rippling.
- Incorporate systems thinking into the design of Rippling's core capabilities so that they are both modular and stand-alone full-featured product experiences that are both powerful and easy to use.
- 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.
- Work closely with our Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, and executive leadership to deliver best-in-class, innovative work that pushes the limits of possible.
Requirements
- You have 8+ years of professional design experience and 5+ years managing and leading design and creative teams.
- You have brought a relentless customer focus to high-impact, high-visibility projects.
- You're a systems thinker and have led the design of an integrated suite of products or ecosystem of features.
- You excel at written and verbal communication and use these skills to persuade and influence stakeholders toward building innovative products that uniquely resonate with customers.
- You work collaboratively with Engineering, Product, and Marketing team members to drive strategy and design execution.
- You have led, recruited, and scaled design teams at both startups and established companies.
- You have experience systematically growing product designers' skills so they do the best work of their careers.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Benefits
- Equity
