# Product Lead, Employee lifecycle & HRIS Platform

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Product Management
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Product Management, Roadmapping, Workflow Design, System Design, Data Modeling, APIs, Distributed Systems, HRIS, Payroll Systems, Reliability Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-04-21

> Leads product roadmap and development for employee lifecycle systems including terminations, transitions, and HRIS platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and data integrity across enterprise workflows. Requires 8+ years in B2B platform product management with strong technical judgment.

## Job Description

## What you will do

- Own the end-to-end roadmap for core employee lifecycle (Terminations, Transitions & Employee Apps and HRIS Platform) systems and surfaces, setting direction, prioritizing high-impact work, and making clear sequencing decisions that balance speed, scale, and correctness
- Lead the development of critical workflows that power employee changes across their lifecycle, ensuring these flows are intuitive for users while handling the underlying complexity required for accuracy across systems
- Drive enterprise readiness for high-stakes features by coordinating across partner teams and ensuring seamless interoperability with downstream systems and workflows
- Set and uphold a high bar for reliability and correctness, treating issues as product failures, driving root cause resolution, and continuously improving system robustness and user trust
- Define and own success metrics across the product surface, including workflow completion, system performance, reliability, and downstream impact, and use these to inform product strategy and execution
- Represent your product areas in cross-functional planning and leadership discussions, committing to clear outcomes, proactively identifying risks, and making trade-offs when priorities or constraints shift
- Operate as the central point of accountability across a distributed engineering team, building strong execution partnerships, driving alignment, and ensuring consistent delivery across time zones
- Communicate clearly with senior stakeholders, translating complex trade-offs into crisp decisions and ensuring visibility into progress, risks, and impact

## What you will need

- **8+ years** of product management experience, including significant ownership of platform or infrastructure products in a high-scale B2B environment
- A track record of delivering complex, high-impact products tied to enterprise outcomes, with experience driving execution across multiple teams under tight timelines
- Strong technical judgment across system design, including **data modeling**, **APIs**, and **distributed systems**; able to engage deeply with engineering and influence architectural decisions
- Experience owning reliability and performance for critical user-facing systems, with a high bar for correctness and a mindset of continuous improvement
- Strong product instincts in high-stakes environments, with the ability to make thoughtful trade-offs, sequence work effectively, and manage risk in complex systems
- Clear and direct communication style, with the ability to align engineering, design, and leadership through crisp thinking and structured decision-making
- Experience in **HR**, **payroll**, or other systems of record is a plus, particularly in areas involving data integrity, compliance, and auditability

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