# Product Design Lead, Workforce Management

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $153k – $255k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Product Design, System Design, Prototyping, Ai-Assisted Design, LLMs, Interaction Design, Visual Design, User Research, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Figma
**Posted:** 2026-05-19

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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