Product Design Lead, Finance

About This Role

As Product Design Lead for Finance, you will set the vision for Rippling’s Spend platform and drive it from concept to shipped reality. You will lead design for surfaces like cards, expenses, bill pay, procurement, and travel, creating experiences that feel effortless for employees and powerful enough for global finance teams. This role involves defining patterns that scale from a one-person startup to a 10,000-person company.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term vision for Rippling’s Spend Management Platform, integrating products like Cards, Travel, Expenses, and Bill Pay into a cohesive hub for global finance
• Partner with Research to understand complex finance workflows and translate them into simple, cross-product experiences
• Design for both employees and finance leaders, delivering effortless flows while ensuring control, compliance, and visibility at scale
• Champion a consumer-grade quality bar, elevating craft across the Finance Suite and mentoring designers in systems thinking, interaction design, and visual polish
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to make high-velocity decisions, ship with urgency, and advocate for customers

Requirements

• 6–8+ years of end-to-end product design experience shipping complex, high-impact products from concept to launch
• A portfolio demonstrating the ability to turn messy, ambiguous problems into simple, intuitive workflows, especially in complex domains
• Strong interaction and visual design craft, with the ability to produce polished work across edge cases and states, and communicate clear, build-ready specs
• Relentless customer focus, backed by a habit of digging into real behavior, identifying pain points, and designing solutions that solve meaningful problems
• Excellent communication and storytelling, from crisp async write-ups to persuasive presentations that drive alignment and decisions
• A track record of working effectively with Product and Engineering, moving quickly while holding a high quality bar
• Comfort operating in fast-moving environments, juggling multiple work-streams, unblocking dependencies, and owning timelines with minimal oversight

Qualifications

• 6–8+ years of end-to-end product design experience shipping complex, high-impact products from concept to launch, then iterating based on what you learn

Benefits