# Product Design Lead, AI Platform

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $148k – $325k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Product Design, Interaction Design, graphic design, artificial intelligence, SaaS, Enterprise Software, systems thinking, Prototyping, Agentic Workflows, ai evaluations, mcps, permissions design, human-in-the-loop, Figma, Technical Communication
**Posted:** 2026-08-03

> Leads product design for Rippling’s AI Platform, defining scalable interaction patterns and trustworthy AI-native workflows across the enterprise product suite. The role requires 10+ years of product design experience, recent AI product work, strong systems thinking, and the ability to influence cross-functional leaders as a senior individual contributor.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define and drive the design vision for AI Platform experiences across Rippling, shaping product concepts, interaction patterns, and principles for AI-native workflows.
- Establish reusable frameworks for AI interactions, agentic workflows, automation, human-in-the-loop review, transparency, trust, permissions, and control.
- Lead large, ambiguous, cross-product design initiatives across product, engineering, data, infrastructure, design, and go-to-market teams.
- Partner with AI Platform product managers, engineering managers, product engineers, and design leaders to turn technical capabilities into intuitive, trustworthy user experiences.
- Work hands-on with individual pods while connecting patterns across the AI Platform roadmap and adjacent product areas.
- Translate AI behaviors, model capabilities, evaluations, agentic workflows, and platform constraints into practical product patterns.
- Create high-fidelity prototypes, frameworks, written narratives, and decision-making artifacts.
- Coach designers, review work, and codify scalable guidance for AI product experiences.
- Stay close to customers, customer-facing teams, competitors, and frontier AI developments to inform product strategy.
- Shape enterprise AI experiences around business workflows, sensitive data, approvals, accountability, and measurable customer value.

## Requirements
- At least **10 years of product design experience**, including significant experience designing and shipping complex SaaS, platform, or enterprise products.
- Recent hands-on experience designing and shipping AI products or AI-powered features.
- Exceptional systems thinking across product architectures, data flows, permissions, dependencies, and edge cases.
- Track record leading high-impact, cross-product initiatives as a senior individual contributor, principal designer, design director, or equivalent.
- Deep interaction design craft and ability to create and validate novel patterns through prototypes or production work.
- Strong product judgment, strategic thinking, executive communication, storytelling, writing, and documentation skills.
- Technical fluency and comfort working with engineers on AI systems, platform primitives, model behavior, evaluations, agentic workflows, MCPs, and related concepts.
- Bias toward shipping, learning, and iterating quickly while maintaining quality, coherence, and user trust.
- Collaborative leadership style and ability to influence design, product, engineering, go-to-market, and customer-facing teams.
- Strong point of view on improving enterprise software with AI, paired with humility to learn from customers, data, technical constraints, and implementation teams.

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