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RipplingRipplingSan Francisco, CA

Product Design Lead, Workforce Management

Lead product design for Rippling's hourly workforce management platform, focusing on forecasting, scheduling, time/attendance, and AI-powered workflows. Own end-to-end design from research through delivery for complex operational systems.

153k – 255k
Hybrid6+ YOEProduct Design

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design exceptional product experiences for modern workforce management across forecasting, scheduling, time and attendance, team communication, and operational workflows.
  • Get close to customers to understand how managers and admins run hourly teams, identify workflow breaks, hidden complexity, and opportunities for design impact.
  • Design scalable capabilities and platform patterns that work across multiple products, customer segments, and use cases.
  • Use AI as a core part of the design process to clarify problem spaces, generate requirements, explore edge cases, and pressure-test solutions.
  • Prototype with AI-assisted tools to make ideas tangible quickly, explore interactions, and validate solutions through working flows.
  • Develop hands-on understanding of evolving AI capabilities and apply insights to product and design decisions.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of end-to-end product design experience, with a portfolio demonstrating systems design and complex product delivery.
  • Active use of LLMs (Claude, ChatGPT, or similar) in design workflow for research, requirements, copy, or exploration.
  • Comfort with AI-assisted prototyping tools (Cursor, Claude Code, or similar).
  • Strong eye for craft in interaction and visual design, with ability to set high quality standards.
  • Relentless customer focus and ability to translate real user needs into design decisions.
  • Exceptional communication skills for guiding cross-functional partners through decisions.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience designing AI features with transparency, oversight, and appropriate human judgment checkpoints.
  • Background in complex operational or workforce systems.

Skills

Product DesignSystem DesignPrototypingAi-Assisted DesignLLMsInteraction DesignVisual DesignUser ResearchCross-Functional CollaborationFigma

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