Rippling
Product Lead, Payments
$153K–$255K
San Francisco, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 10, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of product management, product lead, or founding experience.
About the job
Own Rippling’s payments experience and orchestration platform, deciding how money moves and improving its speed, reliability, routing, economics, and AI-enabled operations.
What you'll do
- Build consistent payment-method experiences and flexible routing and funds-flow infrastructure across products, partners, and countries.
- Launch faster payment experiences and develop AI capabilities to explain payment issues, recommend resolutions, optimize routes, and take controlled actions.
- Own payments economics and P&L, and partner across technical and business teams to deliver solutions.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of product management, product lead, or founding experience.
- Demonstrated success owning technically complex platform products or shared infrastructure.
- Strong systems thinking, product judgment, technical fluency, analytical skills, and ability to turn ambiguous cross-functional problems into shipped outcomes.
Nice to have
- Experience with payments, fintech, treasury, banking infrastructure, risk, or other regulated financial systems.
Pay
USD 153,000–255,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
APIs
AI focus
Define and build agentic payments: make payment configuration and state machine-readable so AI can answer questions, identify issues, recommend resolutions, and take controlled actions; use AI to anticipate funding and payout issues, optimize routing, and automate operational decisions.
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