Engineering Manager, Workforce Planning in San Francisco, California at 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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Rippling’s Talent Engineering organization powers the systems behind how companies plan, hire, and manage their workforce. Within this, our Workforce Planning product sits at the center of some of the most critical and complex decisions businesses make—spanning headcount planning, compensation, and equity management.

We’re hiring an Engineering Manager, Workforce Planning (M7) to lead a high-impact team building this rapidly growing product. This is one of the fastest-growing areas within Talent, with strong demand from enterprise customers navigating increasingly complex planning cycles.

The product itself is inherently challenging—modeling real-world workflows like performance review cycles, compensation planning, and organizational changes that are difficult to reason about and even harder to systematize. We’re now layering AI and natural language capabilities on top of these workflows, unlocking powerful new ways for customers to interact with and automate workforce decisions.

In this role, you’ll lead a team of engineers, driving both product innovation and technical execution in a fast-moving, high-growth environment.

• Lead and develop a team of engineers building Rippling’s Workforce Planning product
• Own the technical direction across compensation, equity, and headcount planning systems
• Drive architecture and system design for complex, stateful workflows that power enterprise planning use cases
• Partner closely with Product to define and execute on a roadmap serving HR leaders, finance teams, and executives
• Build and scale AI-native experiences, leveraging LLMs to simplify complex planning and decision-making workflows
• Establish strong engineering execution—balancing speed, quality, and reliability
• Navigate ambiguity and break down complex business problems into scalable technical solutions
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and high engineering standards

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• 2+ years of engineering management experience, with a track record of leading small, high-performing teams
• Strong technical foundation in building complex SaaS systems or distributed systems
• Experience working on products with high business complexity (e.g., finance, HR, planning systems)
• Ability to reason through and simplify ambiguous, hard-to-model workflows
• Experience or strong interest in building AI/LLM-powered product experiences, particularly in enterprise contexts
• Strong product sense and ability to partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills and ability to drive alignment across teams

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.

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