About the role
The product team owns Rippling’s product direction, defining what to build in order to solve customer problems in a way that allows them to succeed. We do this by intimately understanding the market, our customers, and the perspectives of our key stakeholders and synthesizing that into a product that is effective, efficient, and easy to use.
In this role, you will be responsible for owning the success of the Rippling product in a European market. This role offers the opportunity to launch and grow markets at various maturity levels. You will build deep market knowledge and understanding of customer needs, and work closely with engineering, legal and compliance partners to build and with sales, implementation and support to launch and continuously improve the product.
What you will do
- Own the product vision, roadmap and execution for Rippling in major new European markets
- Define path-to-sales strategy, including sequencing and scope
- Conduct market research and customer analysis to understand customer needs and requirements for payroll, HR, and adjacent products in the market
- Deeply understand the legal, compliance, regulatory requirements, and operational payroll flows in each jurisdiction of target countries
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, operations, legal, and compliance, to drive execution and ensure you’re shipping successful product with velocity
- Stay close to the data – build a deep understanding of what’s required to hit our ambitious goals
What you will need
- Self-starter with a bias towards action
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Owned a successful product from inception to launch
- Strong ability to motivate and inspire people to do their best work
- Relentlessly focused on customers’ needs
- Possess a deep sense of ownership and responsibility and understand that the buck stops with you
- Exceptional interpersonal communication, relationship management, and organizational skills
- Strong critical thinking, prioritization, and problem-solving skills
- Strong alignment with our core values: Go and See, We Push the Limits of Possible, and Challenge Directly
- Background in payroll, HR tech, or workforce management software is preferred. Demonstrated experience delivering complex products in highly regulated environments is also appropriate.
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.
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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