Director of Engineering, HRIS Core Flows
Rippling · On-site · San Francisco, CA · $216k–$378k
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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 $1.4B+ 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.
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About the role
Rippling HRIS is the system of record for employee and organization data and the control plane for the workflows that change it. We’re looking for an Engineering Director to lead the teams responsible for employee transitions, employee terminations, and a new AI-assisted HR workflow charter.
In this role, you will lead a 15-person organization focused on making high-stakes employee lifecycle workflows faster, more reliable, and easier to operate at enterprise scale. You will define the product and technical strategy for AI-assisted workflows that help customers understand employee-change requests, gather missing information, coordinate approvals, and execute approved changes with transparency, human oversight, and auditability.
Why this role exists
- Manual to agentic: Employee lifecycle workflows should do more of the work. Today, many processes still depend on an admin knowing the right sequence, collecting context, coordinating stakeholders, and following through manually. The opportunity is to make the product an intelligent partner while preserving human judgment, transparency, and control.
- High-stakes product surface: Transition and termination flows touch some of the most consequential employee changes and have downstream effects across HR, payroll, benefits, IT, and finance. The product must make complex cases feel simple without hiding the underlying controls.
- Enterprise readiness: Large enterprises bring deeper hierarchies, more policies, fine-grained permissions, global variation, larger bulk operations, and more integrations. The system needs predictable performance, reliability, correctness, and auditability as those dimensions compound.
- Unified leadership: A combined 15-person team needs one leader accountable for the product strategy, technical direction, org design, talent bar, and cross-functional operating model across the full charter.
What you will do
- Transform employee lifecycle workflows from manual to agentic
- Define the product and technical strategy for an Agentic HRBP that help
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agents, AI-assisted workflows, decision automation, workflow orchestration, or intelligent enterprise products.
- Experience with HR, payroll, benefits, IT, identity, finance, compliance, or other employee-system domains.
- Experience with global products that must support country-specific policies, permissions, localization, and audit requirements.
- Experience building platforms for bulk operations, asynchronous workflows, observability, and recovery.
Additional Information
Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accommodations@rippling.com
Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.
This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here .
A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.