Rippling logo
Rippling Verified
HR Tech, FinTech, SaaS, Software

Senior Director, Implementation

San Francisco, CAHybridFull TimeDirector$152,700–$241,775 /yrPosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

Is this role right for you?

Upload your resume and get a skill-by-skill breakdown — see exactly where you match, where you're close, and what to highlight. Not a mystery percentage.

Get a tailored resume highlighting what this role needs.

Required skills

  • Implementation
  • Customer Experience
  • leadership team
  • key performance metrics
  • value
  • adoption
  • team productivity
  • Sales
  • CX
  • Product

Nice to have

  • learning mindset
  • people-first attitude
  • Self-motivated
  • detail-attentive
  • action-driven
  • take initiative

Role summary

Rippling is seeking a seasoned Senior Director of Implementation to lead and grow high-performing teams. This role is crucial for driving customer experience, value, and adoption through strategic initiatives and optimized processes. You will manage, mentor, and empower your leadership team, ensuring they meet and exceed quarterly goals. The ideal candidate has 15+ years of experience in Implementation or Customer Experience leadership within fast-paced SaaS environments, with a strong data-driven approach, proven success in scaling teams, and excellent communication skills. This is a hands-on role requiring initiative, a learning mindset, and a commitment to long-term company building.

About the role

Implementation is an essential differentiator for Rippling. The ideal candidate for this role is a seasoned senior leader with extensive experience building and executing strategic initiatives aligned with key business goals. You will manage, mentor, empower, and grow your leadership team to meet and exceed key performance metrics, including customer experience, value, adoption, and team productivity. 

You will report to our Vice President of Implementation and work closely with our Sales, CX, and Product senior leadership teams. 

What you will do

  • Hire, mentor, and grow high-performing teams that consistently meet and exceed quarterly goals and targets 
  • Build, maintain, and execute quarterly plans aligned with business objectives 
  • Develop, monitor, and manage key performance metrics 
  • Leverage a data-driven approach to building and optimizing processes that drive efficiency and an improved customer experience 
  • Collaborate with senior leaders across Rippling to achieve organizational and company goals

What you will need

  • You have 15+ years of professional experience leading an Implementation or Customer Experience team within a fast-paced environment, startup, or SaaS organization
  • Deep understanding of systems and operations with B2B and B2C products
  • Experience hiring and managing a distributed team
  • Proven track record of success in scaling teams and maintaining SLAs as well as other key performance metrics
  • A data-driven approach to developing, tracking and optimizing performance metrics 
  • Lead by example with a learning mindset, people-first attitude, and strong sense of responsibility for your domain
  • Self-motivated, detail-attentive, action-driven with the ability to take initiative, execute, and follow-through
  • Highly effective communicator with good people instincts - able to build trust and work well with a diverse group inside and outside the company
  • Eager for a very hands-on role, where you’ll be asked to take on and run with a range of initiatives outside your comfort zone and learn quickly
  • Highly organized, self-motivated, and detail-oriented, with great follow-through on initiatives big and small
  • High integrity individual who’s enthusiastic about building a great company for the long term
  • Courage to challenge the status quo when logic and reason require it. See something broken? Fix it

Additional Information

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.

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.

#li-hybrid #li-remote

Ready to apply?
You'll be redirected to Rippling's application page.

Similar roles

See how RiseMe works

Match, tailor, and prep so you send fewer applications and land more interviews.