Director of Product

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, Rippling has raised $1.85B+ from 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

Tax is where trust is won or lost. Every calculation, filing, and payment is a promise to our customers and to the agencies they answer to. As Rippling scales into the enterprise and expands globally, the Tax Platform is mission-critical infrastructure: it must be accurate, explainable, and reliable at a level most payroll systems were never designed for.

We're looking for a Director of Product, based in Bangalore, to lead Rippling's Global Tax Platform team. You'll own the end-to-end system that calculates, files, and pays taxes globally — across employees and contractors, across every country we operate in, and across federal, state, and local jurisdictions.

The scope covers:

• Calculation engine, including the multi-year effort to build Tax Foundry — an AI-enabled tax calculation and policy engine that replaces our third-party dependency.
• Filings and agency communications across all jurisdictions globally.
• Tax payments and reconciliation — accurate, on-time, and fully traceable.
• Upstream data audits and self-serve resolution so issues are caught before they block filings.
• In-product explainability so every tax value can be traced to its source inputs and rules.
• Enterprise readiness — multi-entity, multi-country, equity comp, and complex tax structures at scale.

The goal is simple: no surprises. Customers should never be caught off guard by their tax data, and the team should never be pulled into reactive firefights during filing season.

What you will do

• Own the vision and execution for the Tax Platform across calculation, filing, payments, and reconciliation globally.
• Lead a team of Senior Product Leads across calculation, filings, payments, data quality, and enterprise tax.
• Drive measurable improvements in filing accuracy, on-time payment rates, weekly data accuracy, customer self-serve, and enterprise escalations.
• Make the call on Tax Foundry while maintaining a credible third-party backup plan.
• Build opinionated, configurable workflows that reduce reliance on Tax Ops and CX.
• Partner with Engineering, Tax Ops, CX, Payroll, Compliance, Legal, and GTM to align expansion with platform architecture.
• Serve as a Senior Product Leader in Bangalore, operating tightly with leadership in San Francisco.

What you will need

• Serve as a Senior Product Leader in Bangalore, operating tightly with leadership in San Francisco.
• 12+ years of Product Management experience.
• Proven experience leading senior IC PMs across multiple teams.
• Experience owning complex, multi-surface platforms with regulatory, tax, or financial complexity.
• Strong systems thinker — you see 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, and execution rigor.
• Strong cross-functional leadership across engineering, tax/compliance, operations, and GTM.
• High ownership mindset — accountable for outcomes, not output.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication in a highly cross-functional, globally distributed role.
• Payroll, tax, accounting, or fintech experience is a strong plus.
• Strong alignment with our leadership principles: in particular, Go and See, and Are Right, a Lot.

If you don't necessarily meet all of the requirements listed here, we still encourage you to apply because skills can be used in lots of different ways, your life experience is equally important sometimes.