Rippling has opened a nearly 133,000-square-foot office at 330 West 34th Street, right near Penn Station, giving the workforce management company room for more than 1,000 employees in the heart of Manhattan's Penn District. The move marks a major expansion for the company, which describes itself as an AI-powered workforce management platform.
According to CoStar, the new office sits near the Penn Station transit hub and, per the outlet's reporting, doubles the firm's previous Manhattan footprint. The new space will support staff across go-to-market, engineering, product and design, operations and corporate functions, according to a release covered by the National Law Review, which put the office's size at 132,693 square feet — close to, but not identical to, the roughly 133,000-square-foot figure cited elsewhere.
Rippling's prior New York office sat inside 4 World Trade Center, where the company subleased space from Spotify after relocating to the tower's 59th and 60th floors in January 2024, according to Commercial Observer. That outlet put the old footprint at 69,000 square feet, while the National Law Review's release cited 67,000 square feet — accounts that differ slightly but agree the new Penn District space represents a significant jump in size.
A Ten-Year Bet on Midtown
The new lease runs for 10 years and covers the seventh, eighth and ninth floors of the 18-story building, with an asking rent of $85 per square foot, the same Commercial Observer report notes. Rippling was represented in the deal by CBRE brokers Sacha Zarba and Jeff Fischer, according to the report.
Founded by Parker Conrad in 2016, Rippling unifies HR, IT, finance and other business operations functions for its clients, per Commercial Observer's account. The company's own materials, cited by the National Law Review, describe Rippling as an “AI-native workforce management platform.”
The expansion also comes with a public incentive attached. New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced up to $3.5 million in performance-based Excelsior Jobs Program tax credits tied to the move, linked to 390 new jobs and retention of 173 full-time employees, Commercial Observer reported. A post from Empire State Development on X
described the incentive differently, citing $3.4 million in state support and 371 new jobs — a discrepancy the available reporting does not reconcile.
Rippling is expanding in NYC, creating 371 new jobs and relocating to a larger Manhattan office. Backed by $3.4M in State support, this expansion builds on New York’s strong tech economy and commitment to growing quality jobs. 💼👩💻
Riding Manhattan's AI Office Wave
Rippling's move lands squarely inside a broader surge of technology and AI leasing across Manhattan. Tech companies leased 4.15 million square feet during the first half of 2026, up 59.5 percent year over year and accounting for 18.2 percent of all Manhattan office leasing, according to a Colliers report. Six Manhattan tech leases topping 100,000 square feet closed in that same stretch, with Midtown South capturing 75.1 percent of all tech leasing activity, Colliers found.
AI companies specifically leased 1.50 million square feet across 63 transactions in the first half of 2026 — nearly double their entire 2025 total, per Colliers. A separate Bloomberg report put the AI figure even higher, at more than 2.2 million square feet of city office space leased by AI firms in the first half of 2026, more than double all of 2025's total. Bloomberg also noted that AI startups raised a record $16.7 billion in venture capital in 2025, citing a Partnership for New York City report.
Gothamist reported that AI firms alone leased 1 million square feet of city office space in the first quarter of 2026, already surpassing all of 2025, with 90 percent of that activity consisting of new leases rather than renewals. The outlet also counted nearly 1,100 AI startups now operating in New York City, compared with 2,655 in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Other AI Firms Crowding Into Manhattan
Rippling isn't alone in staking out new Manhattan turf. Altana signed a 62,000-square-foot Midtown lease that triples its prior Williamsburg office space, while Sierra took 94,000 square feet on East 26th Street and Synthesia leased 50,000 square feet in the Flatiron District, according to Gothamist's reporting. Colliers also pointed to Google, Ramp and Uber as leading major Manhattan tech leasing commitments during the first half of 2026.
The scale of Rippling's current move stands out against its own leasing history in the city. When the company first subleased space from Spotify at 4 World Trade Center, Commercial Observer reported in a January 2024 story that Spotify had offloaded at least 154,666 square feet in the tower overall, through deals that included both Duolingo and Rippling. Two years later, Rippling's footprint near Penn Station is now its largest in New York to date.
