Product Lead

About Rippling Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system. Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds. Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.85B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes. We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @ Rippling.com addresses.

About the role The product team owns Rippling’s product direction, defining what to build in order to solve customer problems in a way that allows them to succeed. We do this by intimately understanding the market, our customers, and the perspectives of our key stakeholders and synthesizing that into a product that is effective, efficient, and easy to use. In this role, you will be responsible for owning the success of the Rippling product in India. You will build deep market knowledge and understanding of customer needs, and work closely with design, engineering, legal and compliance to build and with sales, implementation and support to launch and continuously improve the product. This is a high-impact, cross-functional role that requires strong product judgment, commercial thinking, technical fluency, and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments. You will work closely with Engineering, Design, Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Operations to identify important customer problems, define product strategy, prioritize investments, and deliver measurable business outcomes. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable developing long-term product strategy and getting deep into customer problems, product requirements, data, technical trade-offs, and execution. What you'll do

• Own the strategy and roadmap for a strategic product area.
• Identify important customer and market opportunities and translate them into clear product priorities.
• Develop a deep understanding of customers, users, partners, and internal stakeholders to identify unmet needs and product opportunities.
• Define product capabilities that solve complex customer problems and can scale across different customer segments and use cases.
• Partner closely with Engineering and Design from problem definition through product development and launch.
• Use quantitative and qualitative insights to identify opportunities, evaluate trade-offs, and prioritize investments.
• Define success metrics and use data to understand product performance and inform future decisions.
• Work closely with go-to-market and operational teams to ensure products are positioned, launched, and adopted effectively.
• Translate ambiguous business and customer problems into clear product requirements and prioritized initiatives.
• Partner with engineering teams on areas such as integrations, data models, automation, platform capabilities, and AI-enabled workflows.
• Drive alignment across senior stakeholders on product strategy, priorities, metrics, and trade-offs.
• Operate with significant autonomy and take end-to-end ownership of complex initiatives. What we're looking for
• 8+ years of product management experience, preferably working on complex B2B technology products.
• A strong track record of owning significant product areas and delivering measurable customer and business outcomes.
• Strong product judgment and the ability to connect customer problems, business context, and technology into coherent product solutions.
• Excellent analytical skills and comfort using data to understand customer behavior, evaluate opportunities, and make product decisions.
• Strong customer orientation and experience translating customer insights into scalable product capabilities.
• Strong technical fluency and systems thinking, with the ability to work effectively with engineering teams on complex technical products.
• Experience working across Product, Engineering, Design, Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Operations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to influence and align senior stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving environments with ambiguity, changing priorities, and significant ownership.
• Ability to move fluidly between strategic thinking and detailed execution. Nice to have
• Experience with platform, marketplace, ecosystem, workflow, or B2B2C products.
• Experience building products involving multiple customer or partner personas.
• Experience working on products with complex integrations or operational workflows.
• Experience launching zero-to-one products or significantly expanding an existing product area.
• Experience in a high-growth technology company or startup environment.