Senior product design manager finance

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

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 In a world of outdated, bloated legacy products, we’re building business software that’s modern, streamlined, and deeply considered.

Our Finance Products orchestrate the movement of billions of dollars every week—paying employees and contractors, processing invoices, filing taxes, and keeping companies compliant across dozens of countries. This isn’t just about moving money. It’s about trust, compliance, and livelihoods. When people’s pay, invoices, or tax documents are on the line, “good enough” doesn’t cut it.

Here’s what makes this extraordinary: we’re not just improving financial workflows, we’re reinventing them. While competitors patch together decades-old systems, Rippling is building the world’s first truly unified global finance platform. One system. Many countries. Many currencies. Every compliance requirement. It’s never been done because most assumed it wasn’t possible. Our mission is to abstract away staggering complexity and deliver a platform that businesses can run on with clarity and confidence.

As Senior Product Designer for Finance Products, you’ll architect experiences that make the impossible look effortless. You’ll take one of the most complex regulatory labyrinths on earth—thousands of tax codes, labor laws, payment rails, and compliance requirements that change constantly—and transform it into something so beautifully simple it feels like magic. This is product design at the highest level. 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.

We’re 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 high-velocity environments. Someone who loves both setting the vision and rolling up their sleeves to bring it to life.

If you’re ready to design the future of how money moves through the world of work, let’s 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 multi-country 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 Rippling's entire platform
• Work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and go-to-market partner 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, high-stakes 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, platform-level 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 cross-functional 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
• Self-starter mentality with a bias toward action; you thrive in fast-paced environments and turn ambiguity into clarity
  
  

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 [email protected]

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.

The pay range for this role is:

200,000 - 280,000 USD per year(San Francisco Office)