Director of Product - Core HRIS and compliance

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, such as 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, Bedrock, GIC, Elad Gil and Goldman Sachs—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About the Role

Global hiring is complex and fragmented. Every country brings its own compensation models, contract structures, work-hour norms, statutory benefits, tax regimes, onboarding requirements, payroll rails, and reporting obligations. We’re building the system that supports these needs with a fast, consistent and compliant experience. 

We’re looking for a Director of Product to own our end-to-end Global hiring, onboarding, and compliance platform. This leader will be accountable for a multi-surface, multi-country platform that powers the full employment lifecycle from offer creation through compliant onboarding and ongoing regulatory coverage.

This role spans:

• Hiring core (web, mobile, APIs): own the foundational hiring workflows that power every employee globally — offer generation, approvals, bulk hiring, integrations, configurability, performance, and reliability.
• Country-level hiring primitives: design the abstractions that encode country nuance into scalable building blocks — compensation structures (e.g., CTC and beyond), work patterns, contracts, tenure rules, and vacation policies.
• Onboarding and work authorisation: own global onboarding flows — including work authorisation, immigration, I-9, background checks, employment verification, and country-specific requirements. 
• Compliance, reporting & partner ecosystem: own compliance coverage, regulatory reporting, entity compliance, and partner experiences for accountants and brokers.  (accountants and brokers, verification providers).

This is a leadership role where you will define the strategy and execution plan to make global hiring fast, configurable, compliant, and reliable at scale — without heavy operational lift. The systems you build will determine how companies hire across borders for the next decade.

What You'll Do

• Own the vision and execution for Rippling’s global hiring and onboarding platform across all markets
• Lead a team of senior Product Leads across multiple pods (Hiring core, Country-specific primitives, Onboarding, Partner experiences and Compliance)
• Drive measurable improvements in:
• • Time to hire and onboard
  • Launch velocity for new payroll/EOR markets
  • Flow efficiency and configurability
  • Abstract country-level complexity into scalable, reusable primitives (compensation structures, work patterns, contracts, policies)
• Build opinionated, configurable workflows that reduce reliance on ops and support
• Strengthen reliability and performance across hiring and onboarding surfaces
• Partner closely with Engineering, Compliance, Legal, Payroll Ops, and GTM to align the expansion strategy with product architecture
• Balance expansion into new geographies with depth and quality in core markets
• Serve as a senior product leader, raising the bar on execution, clarity, and judgment across the org

Qualifications

• 12+ years of Product Management experience
• Proven experience leading managers and senior IC PMs across multiple teams
• Experience owning complex, multi-surface platforms with regulatory or country-specific complexity
• Strong systems thinker — you see abstractions and primitives, not just features
• Track record of shipping both 0-to-1 launches and scaled products used by large customer bases
• Comfortable operating at multiple altitudes: strategy, architecture, UX details, and execution rigour
• Strong cross-functional leadership across engineering, compliance, operations, and GTM
• High ownership mindset — you are accountable for outcomes, not output
• Exceptional written and verbal communication, and comfortable working in a highly cross-functional role
• Experience in HR, payroll, EOR, compliance, and/or fintech industry is a strong plus
• Strong alignment with our leadership principles: in particular, Go and See, and Are Right, a Lot.