Drimva

Rippling

Senior Engineering Manager, AI Onboarding

$207K–$345K

San Francisco, CA +1 · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 11, 2026

Location
San Francisco, CA
New York, NY

About the job

Leads the engineering team building AI-powered company onboarding, self-serve growth experiences, and shared product platforms at Rippling.

What you'll do

  • Lead and develop a senior engineering team working across AI, onboarding, growth, and platform infrastructure.
  • Set technical direction for AI-first onboarding and scalable shared product platforms.
  • Partner across Product, Design, Data, AI, Growth, and engineering to improve self-serve activation and AI adoption.

What they ask for

  • Proven experience leading engineering teams, including hiring, developing, and retaining senior technical talent.
  • Strong technical depth in backend systems, distributed architecture, APIs, workflow systems, platform infrastructure, and production engineering.
  • Experience building or leading product platforms serving multiple teams.
  • Ability to influence senior stakeholders and communicate complex technical and product decisions.

Nice to have

  • Experience with agents, LLM-powered applications, AI developer workflows, or intelligent automation.
  • Experience in environments where customer growth metrics inform engineering and product strategy.

Pay

USD 207,000–345,000 per year (base salary)

Tools

APIs, LLM-powered applications

AI focus

Set technical direction for AI agents that interpret customer documents, identify missing information, orchestrate workflows across products, and automate onboarding; build foundations and experiences that improve AI adoption.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)