Principal Engineering Management Job

Engineering Manager, Workforce Planning

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.

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

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

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
• finance, HR, planning systems)
• Experience or strong interest in building AI/LLM-powered product experiences, particularly in enterprise contexts
• 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. 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.