Product Lead, Talent Products

What you will do

• Rebuild the Talent suite around agents. Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap across headcount planning, recruiting, performance management, learning management, and employee surveys—including how these products work together and where we invest first.
• Define agentic workflows from the earliest signal that work exists through completion. Build opinionated agents that can identify workforce needs, run recruiting campaigns, triage candidate communications, guide managers through performance decisions, close skill gaps through targeted learning, and turn survey feedback into action.
• Use Rippling's employee graph and cross-product context to build capabilities other talent products cannot. This includes using performance and employee data to improve candidate targeting while preserving permissions, approvals, and auditability.
• Ship quickly, learn from customers, and scale what works through Rippling's customer base and distribution. Set the quality bar, define success metrics, and build the reliability and controls required by complex customers.
• Set direction, raise the quality of the team's thinking, and step into the product, data model, or customer conversation when needed.
• Work closely with engineering (especially AI platform), design, data science, GTM, sales, implementation, and support to launch products that are easy to adopt, sell, service, and trust.
• Go and see the work firsthand. Build deep relationships with customers, understand where legacy talent products break down, and stay ahead of how AI is changing recruiting and talent management.

What you will need

• 8+ years of product management experience, or equivalent founder experience, with substantial ownership of a complex product area.
• A track record of building 0-to-1 products and scaling products after they find traction.
• AI-native product judgment. You use current AI tools, understand how agents and LLM-based products behave in practice, and have a strong point of view on where autonomy creates real customer value.
• Strong product and UX instincts. You can turn complex workflows, data, and organizational rules into experiences that feel simple and opinionated.
• Enough technical depth to work with engineering on data models, agent orchestration, integrations, permissions, and system design without needing translation.
• Comfort operating at multiple altitudes. You can set the strategy, make the hard prioritization calls, and get into the details of a workflow, edge case, or UI when needed.
• A self-starter with a bias toward action, high clock speed, and a deep sense of ownership.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to drive alignment across executives and highly cross-functional teams.
• Founder or hyper-growth startup experience is a strong plus. Talent software experience is helpful, but not required.
• Strong alignment with Rippling's leadership principles, especially Go and See, Push the Limits of Possible, and Are Right, a Lot.

Nice-to-haves

• Founder or hyper-growth startup experience.
• Talent software experience.