Director of Product, Global Tax Platform

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.

• Own the vision and execution for the Tax Platform across calculation, filing, payments, and reconciliation globally.
• Lead a team of Senior Product Leads across calculation, filings, payments, data quality, and enterprise tax.
• Drive measurable improvements in filing accuracy, on-time payment rates, weekly data accuracy, customer self-serve, and enterprise escalations.
• Make the call on Tax Foundry while maintaining a credible third-party backup plan.
• Build opinionated, configurable workflows that reduce reliance on Tax Ops and CX.
• Partner with Engineering, Tax Ops, CX, Payroll, Compliance, Legal, and GTM to align expansion with platform architecture.
• Serve as a Senior Product Leader in Bangalore, operating tightly with leadership in San Francisco.

• →Serve as a senior product leader in Bangalore, operating tightly with leadership in San Francisco.
• →12+ years of Product Management experience.
• →Proven experience leading senior IC PMs across multiple teams.
• →Experience owning complex, multi-surface platforms with regulatory, tax, or financial complexity.
• →Strong systems thinker — you see primitives, not just features.
• →Track record of shipping both 0-to-1 launches and scaled products used by large customer bases.
• →Comfortable operating at multiple altitudes: strategy, architecture, UX, and execution rigor.
• →Strong cross-functional leadership across engineering, tax/compliance, operations, and GTM.
• →High ownership mindset — accountable for outcomes, not output.
• →Exceptional written and verbal communication in a highly cross-functional, globally distributed role.
• →Payroll, tax, accounting, or fintech experience is a strong plus.
• →Strong alignment with our leadership principles: in particular, Go and See, and Are Right, a Lot.

If you don’t necessarily meet all of the requirements listed here, we still encourage you to apply because skills can be used in lots of different ways, your life experience is equally important sometimes.