Product Manager, Hiring Primitives

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 $1.8B+ 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 and for our business to thrive. We do this by distilling insights from user research, product-generated data, competitive analysis, and a deep market understanding. These insights allow us to prioritize the features we work on, which we define end to end with our design and engineering counterparts, to create our roadmap. As the features on this roadmap get developed, we partner with various teams to ensure they are ready to sell, service, and support them. We iterate on these features using data and customer feedback to make sure that they fulfill and surpass the goals we had when we decided to build them. In this role, you will own the product strategy, roadmap, and execution for Rippling's hiring primitives platform. Your mission is to build the systems that make enterprise and global hiring adaptable, configurable, and scalable across countries, entities, worker types, and employment models. Success means enabling customers to hire and manage employees anywhere in the world through a flexible platform that supports country-specific requirements while maintaining a unified product experience. You will partner closely with engineering, design, legal, compliance, operations, and go-to-market teams to define and launch foundational hiring capabilities used across HRIS, EOR, and Payroll products.

What You Will Do

• Own the roadmap and execution for Rippling's global hiring primitives and workforce configuration platform.
• Understand in detail the legal, compliance, operational, and regulatory requirements related to an employee’s early lifecycle.
• Build foundational capabilities that enable enterprise and global hiring to be adaptable and customizable across countries and entities.
• Conduct market research and customer analysis to understand what will need to be built and how to prioritize it for each country.
• Go beyond just shipping new countries; you obsess about continuous improvement and can optimize for shipping a portfolio of small, medium, and large releases.
• Do whatever it takes to make your countries and team successful, no matter how big or small the issue may be.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, other product teams, operations, legal, and compliance, to ensure successful product development and launch.
• Define product requirements and create detailed specifications, user stories, and wireframes to guide development.
• Participate in agile software development processes and work with the engineering team to ensure the product is delivered on time and within budget.
• Communicate with key stakeholders, including customers, sales, marketing, and customer support, to gather feedback and ensure that the product meets their needs.
• Oversee the testing and quality assurance of the payroll product, including conducting user acceptance testing.

What You Will Need

• 4+ years of Product Management experience
• Self-starter with a bias toward action
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Possess a deep sense of ownership and responsibility and understand that the buck stops with you.
• Endless curiosity and a love of the nitty-gritty details
• Owned a successful product from inception to launch
• Strong ability to motivate and inspire people to do their best work
• Relentlessly focused on customers’ needs
• Exceptional interpersonal communication, relationship management, and organizational skills
• Deep analytical, prioritization, and problem-solving skills
• Strong alignment with our core values: We Run Hard, We Push the Limits of Possible, and Never Not My Problem