Lead Product Manager

Rippling's Contractor product powers how tens of thousands of businesses hire, onboard, manage, and pay contractors around the world, from independent domestic workers to international contractors hired through Rippling's own Contractor of Record offering. We are looking for a Product Lead to own the full contractor experience: the invoicing and payment flows, the AI-powered hiring and management tools, the self-serve onboarding motions, and the end-to-end lifecycle from first hire to final paycheck.
This role sits at the intersection of HRIS, Payroll, Time & Attendance, Compliance, and Payments. Contractors span dozens of countries, payment methods, and classification regimes. You'll need to simplify that complexity into an experience that feels fast and effortless for customers while ensuring it's bulletproof for legal, finance, and ops teams on the back end.
Responsibilities:
Own the product vision and roadmap for Rippling's Global Contractors' productfrom hiring and onboarding to invoicing, payment, transitions, and termination
Build and scale AI-first capabilities for contractor management, including AI assistant and agentic-powered invoice creation, hiring, compliance decisions, and offboarding to create the world's most intelligent contractor platform.
Drive the Contractor of Record (CoR) product, enabling customers to hire international and domestic contractors through Rippling's own entity.
Design and improve invoice and payment flows, including state management, approval workflows, and integrations with Balance and global payment rails.
Build self-serve onboarding and SKU purchasing flows that let customers go from signup to first contractor hire in just a few minutes.
Own the contractor mobile experience, giving contractors visibility and control over their client relationships from any surface.
Work cross-functionally across engineering, legal, compliance, operations, and finance to navigate classification risk, international regulatory requirements, and payment complexity.
Partner closely with engineering teams, diving deeply into the technical details of every solution, understanding contractor states, invoice states, and payment flows at the system level.
Define and maintain a clear product roadmap informed by customer needs, competitive dynamics, and Rippling's platform strategy.
Requirements:
8+ years of product management or founding experience.
Self-starter with a bias towards action and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
Willingness to work on multiple products and features at once, across teams.
Ability to go deep technically, comfortable reading specs, understanding data models, and diving into the details of payment flows, invoice states, and lifecycle logic.
Great analytical and problem-solving skills, with a track record of turning complexity into simplicity for customers.
Exceptional interpersonal communication and organizational skills.
Strong ability to motivate and inspire people to do their best work.
Relentlessly focused on customers' needs.
Strong alignment with Rippling's leadership principles, particularly "Push the limits of possible, " "Challenge each other directly, " and "Go and see. "

Experience
6-10 yrs