People Systems Product Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own People systems end-to-end - serve as the internal product owner across all People systems and modules across our HRIS (Rippling), managing the roadmap, driving configuration decisions, and ensuring platforms scale…
• Audit where we're under-leveraging native capabilities, surface quick wins, and build out the automation workflows that eliminate manual People processes across onboarding, offboarding, approvals, and compliance
• Own our People data integrity - Build the processes and governance structures that keep our people data clean over time with repeatable standards that scale with the business
• Identify where native system capabilities end and integrations are needed, scope those requirements clearly, and manage any consultants or vendors brought in to execute
• Partner cross-functionally with People Operations, Recruiting, Finance, IT, and department heads to align on priorities, manage competing demands, and communicate tradeoffs in plain language
• Build and maintain foundational people reporting - establish the recurring reports and dashboards that give People and leadership a reliable, accurate view of the workforce
• Own and actively manage all people system vendor relationships - pushing forward our internal roadmap through platform enhancements and enablement

Job requirements

• 6+ years owning or deeply administering an HRIS - Rippling experience strongly preferred; comparable platforms (Workday, BambooHR, HiBob) considered
• Hands-on experience building workflow automations within an HRIS - not just configuring fields, but designing logic, testing edge cases, and maintaining rules at scale
• A track record of owning data quality in a fast-moving environment - you've cleaned up a messy system and built processes to keep it clean
• Translate business requirements - you translate complex People and business needs into clear system configuration and custom solutions
• Process analysis and design - you map, document, and optimize People workflows (onboarding, payroll, performance management, etc.) and create supporting SOPs
• Experience scoping integration requirements - you know enough to write a clear brief, manage a vendor, and QA the output, even if you didn't build the pipelines yourself
• Strong analytical instincts - you define what a dashboard needs to answer before you build it, and you catch data problems before they become leadership problems
• A bias toward action and ownership - comfortable operating independently in a hyper-growth startup environment