Ankur Bhatt

Head of AI

Ankur is the Head of AI at Rippling, leading the company’s push to make AI a practical superpower for every team and to build AI-native products that transform how businesses operate. He combines systems thinking with hands-on experimentation, helping teams move from individual workflows to team rituals to org-level adoption. Before Rippling, he served as CTO at SAP SuccessFactors and led large-scale modernization initiatives across data, application, and infrastructure layers. When he’s not building at Rippling, Ankur’s usually testing new AI tools, writing reflectively about technology and meaning, or exploring how taste, iteration, and philosophy intersect in the creative process.