Rippling
Director of Engineering, HRIS Core Flows
$216K–$378K
San Francisco, CA · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Experience
- No number of years stated; relevant experience as described in the requirements is requested.
About the job
Leads a 15-person engineering organization building reliable, enterprise-scale employee transition and termination workflows and defining AI-assisted HR workflow strategy.
What you'll do
- Set product and technical strategy for agentic employee-change workflows, including human oversight, permissions, approvals, and auditability.
- Improve enterprise performance, reliability, correctness, bulk operations, observability, and recovery while modernizing architecture.
- Develop the organization, leadership capacity, and cross-functional operating model across the team’s charters.
What they ask for
- Engineering Director or equivalent leadership experience overseeing a multi-team product engineering organization.
- Experience leading through managers and senior technical leaders.
- Experience owning high-stakes, workflow-heavy products or platforms where correctness, permissions, policy, auditability, and integrations matter.
- Experience scaling products for complex enterprise customers, including operational edge cases and cross-functional dependencies.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI agents, AI-assisted workflows, decision automation, workflow orchestration, or intelligent enterprise products.
- Experience with HR, payroll, benefits, IT, identity, finance, compliance, global products, or platforms for bulk and asynchronous workflows.
Pay
216,000 - 378,000 USD per year (US Tier 1), base salary
AI focus
Define and deliver an Agentic HRBP and reusable AI-assisted workflows that interpret employee-change requests, gather information, coordinate approvals, and execute approved changes with human oversight, transparency, and auditability.
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