# Product Lead, Developer Experience

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Product Management
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Ai Coding Tools, Agentic Workflows, AI Agents, Platform Primitives, Libraries, Services, Documentation, Sde Tools, Developer Velocity Metrics, Production Code
**Posted:** 2026-05-05

> Leads the vision, roadmap, and adoption of Rippling's internal developer toolchain, including AI agents, platform primitives, and libraries to boost engineer productivity 2-3x. Requires 8+ years product/engineering experience as former SDE deeply familiar with AI coding tools and developer experience.

## Job Description

## What you will do

- Own the vision and roadmap for Rippling's internal developer toolchain – AI agents, platform primitives, libraries, services, docs
- Work directly with SDEs to identify where DX breaks down and where investment has the highest leverage
- Drive adoption of platform building blocks by making them easier to discover, understand, and use
- Design how agentic coding fits into the Rippling development loop – from scaffolding to review to deployment to verification in production
- Define the metrics that measure developer velocity, and hold the product accountable to improving them

## What you will need

- 8+ years of combined product and/or engineering experience
- Former SDE – not \"technical background.\" You wrote production code, and you know what bad DX feels like from the inside.
- Actively codes – you use **AI coding tools** today and have strong opinions on them.
- Taste – you know the difference between DX that works and DX that demos well.
- Deep in the **AI space** – you're tracking how agentic coding is evolving and you have a point of view on where it's going.
- Understands the business case – you can connect DX improvements to developer throughput, hiring leverage, and scale.
- Experience owning platform or developer-facing products.
- Strong alignment with Rippling's leadership principles, particularly \"Go and See,\" \"Push Limits,\" \"Are Right, a Lot,\" and \"Change Minds Quickly, But Go.\"

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