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Product Lead, Reporting and Analytics

Rippling - San Francisco, CA, United States - Hybrid - posted 2026-10-16

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Rippling is a unified platform for HR, IT, and Finance that brings together workforce systems—payroll, expenses, benefits, computers, and third-party apps—into a single system. The company has raised $1.4B+ from top-tier investors and is headquartered in San Francisco. As Product Lead for Reporting and Analytics, you will own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution for AI-powered reporting and analytics within Rippling's Data Cloud. This is a strategic role that sits at the intersection of product, data, and AI. Key responsibilities include: - Owning the vision and strategy for AI-powered Reporting and Analytics across Rippling's Data Cloud - Defining how reporting works across the platform, including AI-generated reports, agentic proactive insights, pre-built and customizable reports, and embedded reporting surfaces - Leading the next generation of agentic analytics: answering questions, explaining trends, monitoring metrics, surfacing meaningful changes, and recommending actions - Partnering with the Data Catalog team to ensure reporting experiences understand data meaning, find the right sources, and present trusted answers - Collaborating with product teams across Payroll, Recruiting, HR, IT, Finance, and other Rippling applications to identify platform patterns that should be solved centrally - Enabling third-party developers and internal teams to define, package, and ship analytics products and reports - Working closely with engineering teams in San Francisco and Seattle, plus cross-functional partners in Product, Design, AI, Data Catalog, Developer Platform, and native application teams - Engaging directly with enterprise and mid-market customers to understand workflows, validate product direction, drive adoption, and measure value - Using AI daily in your own work to synthesize research, explore data, prototype experiences, and test ideas faster - Translating ambiguous customer and platform needs into clear jobs-to-be-done, product requirements, milestones, and launch plans You will be at the forefront of shaping the next generation of AI-powered analytics for both first-party and third-party application data in a single platform. Requirements: - 5+ years of product management experience with a track record of shipping complex B2B products to external customers - Deep experience in analytics, reporting, BI, data platforms, data products, or adjacent customer-facing data products - Experience building products customers paid for and used directly; internal-only data tooling, analytics implementation, or dashboard-building experience alone is insufficient - Strong product judgment for data-heavy workflows, including how business users think about metrics, reports, permissions, data quality, and decision-making - Technical fluency in data modeling, querying, metrics, semantic layers, permissions, and platform trade-offs, with ability to work deeply with engineering - Strong systems thinking and ability to connect reporting needs across many products without creating one-off solutions - Excellent customer and UX judgment, with ability to make sophisticated analysis feel simple, intuitive, and trustworthy - AI fluency and curiosity, especially around how agents can investigate questions, monitor data, generate reports, explain insights, and recommend actions - Experience with agentic workflows or AI-powered analytics products is a strong plus but not required - Ability to co-own problem framing and solution strategy with engineering and design partners, question assumptions, and resolve trade-offs constructively - Clear, concise communication skills to explain technical product concepts to executives, engineers, customers, and non-technical users - High ownership and autonomy; ability to ship reliably without day-to-day oversight - Comfort working in a fast-moving environment with limited resources, tight timelines, and high expectations for product quality - Alignment with Rippling's leadership principles, especially pushing the limits of possible, challenging directly, and seeing customer problems firsthand

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