By the Numbers:

• Named #1 best software for small business of 2024 by G2
• 2,700+ employees in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Turkiye and growing 
• Over $500M in annual revenue 
• The SMB market is large (and growing!) with huge opportunities for Gusto to make an incredible impact for SMBs 
• There are 6.2M employers in the US, 98% have fewer than 100 employees ⁽¹⁾ 
• 550,000 new businesses are created each year in the US ⁽¹⁾ 

What Product Management is like at Gusto:

• We’re looking for high-autonomy, entrepreneurial Product Managers to come build high-impact solutions for small businesses and their employees. We believe in high-ownership Product Managers who operate like business owners - owning an entire roadmap end to end and shipping product all the way from strategy through to the nitty gritty details (some describe this kind of role as a “GM” type role).
• Our Product team is lean, which means you’ll have a high degree of impact and ownership. 
• We’re here to serve small and medium businesses. Gusto has a strong mission-driven culture, and we care deeply about lifting up these business owners. 

About the Role:

Gusto is in search of an exceptional product leader to oversee our Payroll product and business area on a global scale. Payroll is Gusto’s core product, used by each of our 400,000+ small business customers and contributing significantly to our annual recurring revenue. As a key member of Gusto’s product leadership team, you will assume end-to-end responsibility for the Payroll product strategy, roadmap, and business performance. You will directly lead the product team and indirectly oversee various cross-functional departments, all collaborating to deliver the ultimate Payroll experience for our valued customers. Your role will encompass building a dynamic team, a thriving business, and a suite of products that will be adored by our customers while setting industry benchmarks.

If you are a customer-centric builder who thrives on making a substantial impact within a high-growth organization, we would be thrilled to hear from you!

About the Team

Payroll is the heart of Gusto’s business, ensuring employees are paid accurately, on time, and in compliance with complex regulations. Our teams build and maintain the infrastructure and customer experiences that make payroll simple, reliable, and stress-free. We design user-friendly team management products that integrate seamlessly with Gusto’s broader Small Business Platform, combining digital solutions with human support where it’s needed most. We serve customers at every stage, from new employers hiring their first team members to growing businesses with expanding needs. No matter the size or complexity of your business, our solutions provide peace of mind and take the work out of paying your team.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day: 

• Ownership: Take ownership of the Payroll product and business area from end to end.
• North Star: Define and drive the long-term vision and strategy for Gusto Payroll, charting the future of how small businesses will pay and empower their teams, and positioning Payroll for its next era of growth and scale.
• Collaborate: Work with a strong cross-functional team of Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and Data Scientists to bring your product strategy to life for customers.
• Empowerment: Directly coach and lead a talented team of senior product managers.

Here’s what we're looking for:

• 15+ years of hands-on product management experience across all roles/levels, with at least 5+ years leading and managing PMs (ideally teams of >=5).
• A people-first leader who builds, mentors, and empowers senior PMs, fosters an inclusive product culture, and inspires teams to deliver with clarity, ownership, and accountability.
• Background in SMB-focused software, with experience working in complex areas and regulated categories strongly preferred.
• Strong track record of building and scaling large, mission-critical products, with the ability to break down multi-year initiatives into pragmatic, high-impact launches.
• Skilled at collaborating across Engineering, Design, Data, Ops, Compliance, Finance, and GTM teams to drive adoption, revenue outcomes, and customer success.

If you don't think you meet all of the criteria above but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.

Our cash compensation amount for this role is $206,000/yr to $248,000/yr in Denver & most major metro locations, and $243,000/yr to $292,000/yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate location, experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

About the Role:

As the Enterprise Applications AI Architect, you will lead the integration of AI and automation across Gusto’s enterprise applications ecosystem, transforming how internal systems connect, communicate, and operate. Sitting within the IT and Enterprise Applications organization, you will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Finance, People Tech, and Operations to bridge business needs with AI driven solutions. You will act as the connector between business requirements and AI frameworks, designing Model Context Protocols (MCPs) and AI agents that make enterprise workflows smarter, faster, and more autonomous. In line with Gusto’s FY26 Enterprise Systems strategy, you will help shift our ERP and Finance systems from reactive workflows to predictive, context aware, and self improving platforms, while ensuring security, compliance, and measurable impact. This role combines hands-on technical execution with strategic systems thinking, using integration fluency, AI literacy, and business empathy to create the connective tissue that allows AI to seamlessly augment enterprise operations.

About the Team:

This role will report to the Enterprise AIT team, a group focused on driving the intelligent transformation of Gusto’s enterprise systems. The Enterprise AIT team is responsible for integrating AI, automation, and advanced analytics across our internal applications ecosystem to improve scalability, efficiency, and decision-making. Partnering closely with Finance, Business Ops, IT, and Security, the team enables Gusto’s enterprise systems to become smarter, more predictive, and more adaptive. This is a new role, designed to expand the team’s capacity to operationalize AI within enterprise workflows and support Gusto’s broader Enterprise Systems strategy.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• Translate business needs into AI workflows by partnering with Finance and Business Operations teams to identify automation opportunities and design agentic workflows that improve decision making and reduce manual effort.
• Develop and maintain Model Context Protocols (MCPs) that securely and reliably connect enterprise systems such as NetSuite, Zuora, and Jira to AI agents, with clear documentation and optimization.
• Create and manage intelligent agents that execute or augment core enterprise processes such as onboarding, billing support, and compliance monitoring using large language models and orchestration frameworks.
• Govern the full lifecycle of MCPs and agents, ensuring adherence to enterprise data governance, privacy, and security standards, including SOX compliance, auditability, and appropriate access controls.
• Measure and optimize impact by defining and tracking KPIs such as automation adoption, efficiency gains, agent accuracy, reliability, and cost performance, and using those insights to guide iteration.
• Enable and influence the organization by partnering with IT, Security, and business stakeholders to build reusable AI frameworks, coach teams on safe and effective AI driven workflows, and champion AI first practices across day to day operations.

Here’s what we're looking for:

• 8+ years in Business Systems Analysis, Enterprise Applications, or Automation roles, with a track record of delivering impact in complex environments.
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining integrations across systems such as Jira, NetSuite, or similar, with a strong grasp of APIs, JSON, and RESTful service design.
• Hands-on knowledge of AI agent frameworks (for example LangChain, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, MCP) and experience designing or maintaining Model Context Protocols or equivalent frameworks.
• Familiarity with leading LLM platforms (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini etc.) and practical experience with prompt engineering.
• Proficiency in Python or JavaScript for automation, orchestration, and building modular, scalable AI workflows that translate complex requirements into executable solutions.
• Strong documentation, analytical, and stakeholder communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain tradeoffs and align technical solutions with business needs.
• Passion for building secure, compliant, and explainable AI systems, embedding risk, privacy, and compliance considerations (including SOX and audit controls) into every solution, with a growth mindset and focus on clarity, iteration, and measurable outcomes.

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $150,000-$165,000 /yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $185,000-$205,000 /yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

About Design at Gusto

Design at Gusto is made up of over 80 creative, collaborative people who care deeply about our mission to empower small businesses and their employees. We're a cross-functional group that is always looking for opportunities to build understanding and empathy for the people who use Gusto. We don't care much about swim lanes and though we care deeply about quality and craft, we are never precious about it. 

We work closely with cross-functional partners in Product, Engineering, Data, and Marketing to design, build, and ship experiences that make a real difference. We believe great design can make hard things possible, even delightful.

We are building an AI-native design organization — and we mean that seriously. We're looking for designers who are already working this way: using AI to prototype ideas quickly, shorten customer feedback loops, and ship quality UX directly to customers. This isn't a future aspiration — it's how we work now, and it's changing what the design role looks like at Gusto and across the industry.

About the team

Contractors play a huge role in our economy, and are becoming more prevalent every year. Contract work offers flexibility and independence for workers, and hiring contractors helps small business owners scale quickly and access specialized skills. Our Contractors team helps small and medium business owners (SMBs) hire, manage, and pay domestic and international contractors. We also help contractors manage their client engagements and build their own thriving businesses.

About the role

As a staff product designer, you’ll help bring our contractor products to maturity. You’ll be the IC design leader across this area, driving foundational shifts to our platform and customer experiences. This is a unique opportunity to make major experience changes to established, business critical workflows. As part of the cross-functional leadership team, you’ll drive the entire product development process from setting the long-term vision to strategic planning; all the way to launching new features and iterating on existing ones.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day

• Drive end-to-end design strategy and execution across the contractors experience from discovery and visioning through iterative delivery and refinement.  
• Partner with product, engineering, research, data, legal, compliance, operations, and support to define problem spaces, align on priorities, and deliver solutions that meet both customer and business needs.  
• Translate insights from research and data into intuitive, scalable experiences that support a variety of customer workflows.  
• Champion thoughtful, inclusive design by participating in design reviews, sharing feedback, and contributing to design standards and platform quality.  
• Bring genuine AI fluency to your design practice, using it to prototype quickly, shorten feedback loops, and improve contractor experiences.
• Mentor and support fellow designers by offering thoughtful critique, sharing knowledge, and contributing to design community initiatives across Gusto.  

Here’s what we're looking for:

• 8+ years of product design experience with demonstrated impact in complex domains.  
• Proven ability to lead design direction at the product level and influence cross-functional partners.  
• Strong collaboration experience with partners in product, engineering, research, and data.  
• A portfolio that demonstrates high-quality interaction and visual design with thoughtful consideration for accessibility and end-to-end user experiences.  
• Comfort translating ambiguity into clear design decisions and outcomes.  
• Strong communication skills with the ability to align teams around shared goals.  
• Demonstrated AI fluency in your design practice. You're using AI to move faster, prototype more, and get to better decisions.

Compensation Details

At Gusto, we strive to provide rewards that empower employees to achieve their financial and personal goals. We offer competitive compensation packages with a strong emphasis on equity based compensation (ownership in Gusto). To learn more about Gusto’s compensation philosophy and benefits offerings please view our Total Rewards Approach page. 

Our cash compensation range for this role is $146,000/yr to $183,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $177,000/yr to $222,000/yr in San Francisco, Seattle & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

About the Role:

We're looking for an experienced engineer with deep expertise in distributed data systems to shape the future of Gusto's storage layer. You'll manage complex migrations, architect high-scale systems, and set standards for automation, resiliency, and security. This is a high-impact role where you'll implement distributed database solutions that enable Gusto's continued growth and scale.

About the Team:

The Datastores Infrastructure Engineering team designs, builds, and operates the data platforms that power Gusto's product: MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, and S3. We ensure our infrastructure is consistent, reliable, and ready to support Gusto's growing needs. As we transition to self-hosted distributed databases, the team is focused on reducing blast radius, improving operational resilience, and enabling sustainable scale.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• Architect, deploy, and own the full lifecycle of distributed database systems (TiDB) on Kubernetes at scale, ensuring high availability, data consistency, and operational excellence
• Coordinate complex, zero-downtime migrations from monolithic to distributed architectures, including vertical sharding to isolate Product Services
• Define and drive efficiency improvements across the storage infrastructure through query optimization, caching strategies, and workload management
• Define standards and build reliable automation to ensure data consistency, integrity, and security across distributed systems
• Continuously improve operational excellence by reducing on-call burden through sustainable, long-term solutions
• Partner with product engineering teams and technical collaborators to enable rapid and reliable product development
• Mentor engineers across the Datastores Infrastructure team on best practices for operating complex, self-hosted distributed systems, actively developing our collective operational expertise

Here’s what we're looking for:

• 12+ years of software engineering experience building and scaling large-scale infrastructure systems
• Hands-on experience building and operating distributed databases on Kubernetes (strongly preferred: TiDB; alternatively: CockroachDB, Vitess, Citus, or similar solutions)
• Deep expertise in distributed data systems including horizontal sharding, partitioning strategies, and distributed transaction management
• Proven experience coordinating complex, zero-downtime migrations affecting production systems at scale
• 5+ years of AWS experience with RDS, Aurora, caching systems (Redis/ValKey), streaming platforms (Kafka), and infrastructure optimization at scale
• Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify technical complexity and collaborate on technical direction across teams
• Curiosity and ability to operate in an AI-native environment, leveraging AI tooling to enhance infrastructure operations, driving improvements in  query optimization, performance evaluation, and infrastructure automation
• Bonus: Experience with service extraction and vertical sharding from monolithic architectures
• Bonus: Experience working with Ruby on Rails or similar MVC frameworks at scale

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $200,000-$230,000 /yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $230,000-$270,000 /yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to architect, build, and maintain the data infrastructure at Gusto.  As part of the Data Platform team, you will collaborate closely with Data Science, Business Intelligence, and analysts across Gusto teams to help them achieve their goals. 

The Data Platform position is a software development role with knowledge of data architectures and data delivery. The ideal candidate is passionate about developing software, working with data, and

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• Architect, build, and refine our infrastructure and tools that enable other teams to work with data.
• Efficiently handle vast amounts of clickstream, database, and third party application data, processing in batch and real-time
• Take full ownership of the solutions you build, working with stakeholders to develop requirements, implement solutions, monitor production, and troubleshoot problems that arise.
• Work as part of a team. We value team players who share their knowledge and like collaborating with others.

Here’s what we're looking for:

• • At least 7 years of software engineering experience.
  • Experience building solutions in the cloud, AWS preferred (Redshift, MSK, EMR).
  • Experience with OLAP databases (Clickhouse)
  • Experience building data pipelines at scale, Airflow and Python preferred.
  • Experience with streaming systems desired (Kafka, Kinesis, or similar).
  • Ability to turn vague requirements into clear deliverables with minimal guidance.
  • Experience building and maintaining a modern data stack in production.

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $163,000-$204,000/year in Denver, $178,000-$223,000/year in Los Angeles, and $197,000-$247,000/year for San Francisco, New York, and Seattle. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

The Data Engineering team builds tools and systems that make Gusto's data consistent, user-friendly, and helpful. This helps our teams make decisions using data and provide intelligent, customized experiences to our customers.

We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer who can take loosely defined problems and drive them end-to-end—from framing the problem and aligning stakeholders to designing, building, and delivering durable data solutions. You’ll partner closely with analytics, product, and engineering teams to deliver data solutions that drive real business and customer impact.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of industry experience in data engineering building scalable data pipelines and data products
• Strong proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Scala, or Java)
• Proven experience building and maintaining robust data pipelines and ETL workflows, with hands-on dbt experience for reliable, testable, and maintainable data transformations.
• Hands-on experience ingesting data from diverse sources, including APIs, databases, SaaS applications, and event streams.
• Strong foundation in data modeling, schema design, and data quality best practices, with functional experience working on cloud platforms like Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, or Databricks.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and data observability to ensure reliability and trust in data systems
• Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and incident response for production-grade data pipelines
• Proven ability to optimize performance and cost across data workflows and storage systems
• Functional understanding of how to leverage AI and automation in data engineering — building self-service tools, intelligent pipelines, and agents that automate repetitive tasks
• Exemplar problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a focus on clarity, empathy, and shared ownership

Compensation Details

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $155,000-$185,000/yr in Denver, $170,000-$200,000/yr in Los Angeles, and $190,000-$220,000/yr for San Francisco, Seattle, and New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

About Design at Gusto 

Design at Gusto is made up of over 80 creative, collaborative people who care deeply about our mission to empower small businesses and their employees. We're a cross-functional group that is always looking for opportunities to build understanding and empathy for the people who use Gusto. We don't care much about swim lanes and though we care deeply about quality and craft, we are never precious about it. We work closely with cross-functional partners in Product, Engineering, Data, and Marketing to design, build, and ship experiences that make a real difference. We believe great design can make hard things possible, even delightful.

We are building an AI-native design organization — and we mean that seriously. We're looking for designers who are already working this way: using AI to prototype ideas quickly, shorten customer feedback loops, and ship quality UX directly to customers. This isn't a future aspiration — it's how we work now, and it's changing what the design role looks like at Gusto and across the industry.

About the role:

We’re hiring a Principal Product Designer to lead AI design across Gusto.

This is one of the most senior individual contributor design roles at the company. You’ll define how AI works, behaves, and earns trust across the Gusto platform – starting with Gus, our AI conversational assistant, and expanding into AI-powered workflows embedded in payroll, benefits, HR, and beyond. You’ll shape the interaction model, UX principles, and product direction for AI across Gusto. You will work with senior Product and Engineering leaders to define our AI portfolio. You will develop important AI features that customers will consider and you’ll ship high-impact, customer-facing AI capabilities that help our customers get their work done faster and more effectively, while building their trust in Gusto. These features will help customers finish their tasks faster and build their trust in Gusto.

This role is both strategic and hands-on. We’re looking for someone who can set a long-term UX vision for AI and turn it into real, shipped product that meaningfully improves how small businesses get work done.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• Define and evolve the UX vision for our Gus conversational assistant and AI experiences across the Gusto platform.
• Lead and ship Tier 1 AI initiatives from early concept through launch and iteration.
• Design full AI-powered workflows – shaping how users provide input, how model outputs are validated and acted on, and how the experience handles risk, uncertainty, and failure.
• Partner closely with AI Product and Engineering leaders to translate complex technical constraints into intuitive, credible user experiences.
• Establish scalable AI interaction patterns and design principles that teams across Gusto can adopt.
• Write and iterate on prompts in collaboration with engineering, PM, and content design.
• Use AI tooling to accelerate exploration and prototyping, customer feedback loops, and shipping to customers.
• Mentor designers on the AI team and coach designers across Gusto who are shipping AI features.
• Advocate for high-quality, responsible AI experiences across Design and R&D.

Here’s what we're looking for:

• Proven AI product impact: You’ve shipped LLM-driven product experiences to production and can demonstrate measurable impact on adoption, efficiency, or user trust.
• Systems-level thinking: You’ve designed complete AI workflows – not just chat interfaces – and can speak fluently about failure modes, guardrails, user control, and transparency.
• Strategic product influence: You’ve defined UX direction at a portfolio or company level and influenced roadmap, scope, and sequencing decisions in partnership with senior PM and Engineering leaders.
• Technical fluency: You’re comfortable collaborating with highly technical AI engineers. You understand concepts like retrieval, context management, latency, and model reliability, and can translate them into robust UX decisions.
• Builder mindset: You ship. You prototype. You iterate. You’re not interested in defining principles without turning them into real customer impact.
• Organizational leadership: You have enhanced team work quality. You achieved this by coaching team members, setting new standards, and building solid partnerships across different functions.

Compensation Details

At Gusto, we strive to provide rewards that empower employees to achieve their financial and personal goals. We offer competitive compensation packages with a strong emphasis on equity based compensation (ownership in Gusto). To learn more about Gusto’s compensation philosophy and benefits offerings please view our Total Rewards Approach page.

Our cash compensation range for this role is $204,000/yr to $238,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $240,000/yr to $280,000/yr in San Francisco, Seattle & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

About Design at Gusto:

Design at Gusto is made up of over 80 creative, collaborative people who care deeply about our mission to empower small businesses and their employees. We're a cross-functional group that is always looking for opportunities to build understanding and empathy for the people who use Gusto. We don't care much about swim lanes and though we care deeply about quality and craft, we are never precious about it. We work closely with cross-functional partners in Product, Engineering, Data, and Marketing to design, build, and ship experiences that make a real difference. We believe great design can make hard things possible, even delightful.

We are building an AI-native design organization — and we mean that seriously. We're looking for designers who are already working this way: using AI to prototype ideas quickly, shorten customer feedback loops, and ship quality UX directly to customers. This isn't a future aspiration — it's how we work now, and it's changing what the design role looks like at Gusto and across the industry.

About the Team:

The Retirement team at Gusto builds financial products and services that help bridge the retirement gap for small business owners and their employees. With 401(k) plans designed to be affordable, easy to manage, and easy to understand, Gusto is working to make retirement accessible to small businesses and teams that have historically been underserved by the 401(k) market.

We’re a collaborative group that values creativity, transparency, and a deep respect for our craft. We hold ourselves to a high bar and actively support one another so that we can do our best work. Our process incorporates using AI in our daily workflows to move faster, explore ideas, and increase our impact. From building tools that help individuals navigate their financial future to new retirement offerings, the Retirement team plays a central role in contributing to Gusto’s mission. 

About the Role:

We’re hiring a Staff Product Designer to partner with Product, Engineering, Data (and Research) to shape strategy, align partner teams, and create a cohesive, high-trust retirement experience across the employer and employee journey. You’ll operate as the design lead for your projects—co-owning priorities, success metrics and driving alignment across Retirement and key partner teams (Payroll, Benefits, Support/Ops). Your scope will include:

• Improving both setup and account management to boost confidence, adoption, and retention to reduce contact rate and confusion.
• Creating a more connected journey between payroll and retirement by designing across the seams of product, operations, and support—where the hardest and most interesting problems live.
• Designing flexible, scalable patterns across Retirement, integrating seamlessly with adjacent payroll and benefits touchpoints. Apply discerning design judgment to determine when and how to effectively incorporate AI to enhance the experience.

If you’re energized by ambiguous problem spaces, high-trust financial experiences, and designing workflows that make complex decisions feel clear and confident—this role is for you.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• Strategic Vision & Partnership: Partner with Product Management to define the customer problems to solve, the strategy to solve them, and the measurable outcomes that matter—across activation, engagement, and retention.
• Data and research informed iteration: Collaborate with Data and Research to understand funnel drop-offs, behavior over time, retention drivers as well as define success metrics and iterate based on what you learn.
• Design Leadership & Ownership: Drive the full design process for shipped experiences—scoping and sequencing work, prototyping, testing, and delivering MVP → iteration → longer-term improvements.
• Trust + compliance design: Translate regulatory/tax-driven requirements into clear flows, content, and UI patterns that build trust without overwhelming customers.
• Communication & Storytelling: Craft compelling product narratives that align cross-functional stakeholders around the problem, strategic options, and tradeoffs, clearly explaining the reasoning behind design decisions and outcomes.
• Elevating Craft & Mentorship: Provide thoughtful critique and mentorship to design peers; raise the quality bar across the organization. Be an innovation driver with using and designing for AI.
• System Advocacy & Evolution: Champion the design system and contribute patterns/components that improve cohesion and quality.
• AI-Accelerated Prototyping & Learning: Use AI to move quickly from concept to customer-tested artifact — building clickable, high-fidelity prototypes that generate real signal faster than traditional methods allow. Bring a clear point of view on where AI enhances the customer experience, not just your workflow, and help raise the team's fluency through your example.

Here’s what we're looking for:

We’ve found that a low ego, a growth mindset, and a bias for action go a long way here. 

• 8+ years in product design, with a portfolio showing end-to-end shipped work and the impact it drove
• High bar for craft across interaction design, information architecture, and visual design—especially for complex, form-heavy workflows
• Bonus: Experience in regulated/high-trust domains (fintech, taxes, insurance, healthcare, benefits/retirement)
• Demonstrable AI fluency in your design practice — not just familiarity with tools, but evidence of AI changing how you prototype, test, and ship. We'll ask you to show this, not just describe it.
• Comfort moving between design and code — whether that means shipping UI improvements directly, working closely in the codebase with engineers, or using AI-assisted tools to close the gap between prototype and production.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and shaping messy inputs into clear goals, tradeoffs, and shipped outcomes
• Bonus: Comfortable tackling content design aspects (making complex concepts understandable)
• Building strong partnerships with Product, Engineering, and Data to prioritize, execute, and iterate
• Systems thinker who designs solutions that scale beyond one-off screens and hold up across a product ecosystem
• Bonus: Have contributed to growing a Design system with components or patterns
• Bring a clear point of view, engage in constructive feedback, and help teams align quickly by clarifying tradeoffs and driving decisions forward
• Track record leading multi-workstream initiatives across teams—setting direction, unblocking partners, and shipping measurable improvements

At Gusto, we strive to provide rewards that empower employees to achieve their financial and personal goals. We offer competitive compensation packages with a strong emphasis on equity based compensation (ownership in Gusto). To learn more about Gusto’s compensation philosophy and benefits offerings please view our Total Rewards Approach page. 

Our cash compensation range for this role is $146,000/yr to $183,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $177,000/yr to $222,000/yr in San Francisco, Seattle & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

By the Numbers:

• Named #1 best software for small business of 2024 by G2
• 2,700+ employees in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Turkiye and growing 
• Over $500M in annual revenue 
• The SMB market is large (and growing!) with huge opportunities for Gusto to make an incredible impact for SMBs 
• There are 6.2M employers in the US, 98% have fewer than 100 employees (1) 
• 550,000 new businesses are created each year in the US (1) 

What Product Management is like at Gusto:

• We’re looking for high-autonomy, entrepreneurial Product Managers to come build high-impact solutions for small businesses and their employees. We believe in high-ownership Product Managers who operate like business owners - owning an entire roadmap end to end, and shaping the product from strategy setting through the nitty gritty execution details.
• Our Product team is lean, which means you’ll have a high degree of impact and ownership. 
• We’re here to serve small and medium businesses. Gusto has a strong mission-driven culture, and we care deeply about lifting up these business owners. 

About the Team:

Tax is a critical pillar of Gusto’s platform. The Tax Platform team owns the core systems that determine how tax liabilities are calculated, tracked, paid, reconciled, and filed for more than 400,000 small businesses.

These systems sit at the intersection of money movement, regulatory compliance, and customer trust. The Tax Platform provides shared capabilities used across Tax, Compliance, and R&D, shaping how tax data flows through the company and how other teams build safely on top of Gusto’s tax foundation.

This is high-leverage, system-level work. The team is actively modernizing tightly coupled legacy systems, improving correctness and traceability, and creating durable platform capabilities that reduce risk and unlock faster product development across the company. We partner closely with Engineering, Compliance, Legal, CX, Data Science, and Operations to ensure Gusto’s tax platform remains accurate, scalable, and resilient as the business grows.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• Ownership: Own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for foundational Tax Platform systems, with responsibility for shaping platform direction across multiple quarters and years.
• North Star: Define and evolve a clear Tax Platform strategy that ladders into Gusto’s broader Tax strategy, bringing clarity to ambiguous problem spaces and guiding day-to-day decisions around prioritization, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
• Collaborate & Evangelize: Partner closely with Engineering, Compliance, Legal, CX, Data Science, and Product teams to align priorities, unblock dependencies, and drive adoption of shared platform capabilities. Translate between platform work and customer and business outcomes to help engineering teams understand impact and help stakeholders understand the value and tradeoffs of platform investments.
• Customer Impact: Tie platform initiatives to customer outcomes by using data, domain expertise, and partner input to prioritize work that improves accuracy, timeliness, trust, and operational reliability.
• Execution Excellence: Advocate for durable, correct, and scalable solutions while maintaining momentum through incremental delivery, thoughtful sequencing, and clear success metrics.

Here’s what we're looking for:

• 8+ years of product management experience, including meaningful ownership of platform teams, strategy and multi-year initiatives that created leverage across multiple teams or product areas.
• Demonstrated success operating in complex, multi-product environments with cross-team dependencies and internal platform customers.
• Strong system-level thinking and product judgment, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, make hard tradeoffs, and drive clarity without relying on consensus.
• Experience evolving or modernizing critical systems over time, balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform health and risk reduction.
• Comfort working in regulated or compliance-sensitive domains such as payroll tax, fintech, HR, or legal tech, with a deep appreciation for accuracy, auditability, and customer trust.
• Proven ability to partner closely with engineering teams and translate between platform decisions, customer impact, and business outcomes.
• A strong POV on building products in the age of AI; experience building AI-driven features is a big bonus

If you don't think you meet all of the criteria above but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $180,000 to $224,000/yr in Denver & most major metro locations, and $210,000 to $263,000/yr for San Francisco, New York, & Seattle. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate location, experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above

Where do PMs at Gusto work?

We have offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York and have remote team members across the US and Canada. We are actively hiring for the following Hubs: Toronto, Canada and Seattle, WA. Our open roles will specify on the careers page and in the job description where the position is eligible for work. 

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About the Role

We’re on the lookout for talented Mobile Android Engineers with 8+ years of experience who are passionate about creating amazing user experiences. In this role, you’ll have the chance to dive into developing features that are not just functional but truly intuitive and enjoyable for our users. We want you to take ownership of scaling our shared services while keeping up with the latest in the Android world. You’ll work closely with teams across Product, Identity, Security, System Design, and Infrastructure, collaborating to build solutions that really make a difference. If you’re excited about building elegant, scalable apps and being part of a supportive, innovative mobile team, we’d love to hear from you!

About the Team

At Gusto, we’re excited to be at a pivotal moment in our journey with over 1MM+ monthly active users and the recent launch of our employer experiences on mobile. Our mission is to tackle the real challenges faced by small business owners and their employees, and we believe that mobile is key to delivering impactful solutions. As part of our mobile team, you’ll be at the forefront of this transformation, working alongside talented engineers and designers who are passionate about creating a seamless mobile experience. Together, we’re building a platform that empowers everyone—small business owners and their teams—to thrive. If you’re ready to make a difference in the mobile landscape at Gusto, we want you on board!

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• Architect, build, test, and refine Gusto’s native Android app, along with supporting mobile web views that enhance user experience.
• Develop, iterate, and improve product features that integrate core business functions, work tools, value-added services, and financial products.
• Collaborate closely with our product management, design, and partner teams to identify technical and customer pain points, brainstorm solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch those solutions.
• Work cross-functionally with teams in product apps, identity, security, design systems, and infrastructure to deliver world-class experiences right into our customers' hands.
• Build and scale essential services, such as push notification systems and localization features, to enhance app functionality.
• Enhance and maintain our Android mobile infrastructure, including build pipelines, testing automation, and the release process, to ensure smooth operations.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in Kotlin and Android software engineering, with at least 8 years in mobile software engineering overall.
• Excellent communication skills and a knack for building strong cross-functional partnerships.
• A self-driven mindset with the ability to tackle greenfield projects and bring innovative ideas to life.
• Proficiency in Android testing frameworks and a solid understanding of best practices.
• Experience in developing platform components and common features that enhance scalability, consistency, and maintainability throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Strong critical thinking abilities and a keen attention to detail.
• A willingness to learn continuously and a passion for mentoring others on the team.

Bonus points:

• Experience delivering high-quality code across a diverse tech stack.
• Strong knowledge of Compose and/or GraphQL.
• Proficiency or familiarity with MVVM architecture.
• Experience with analytics and monitoring tools to track app performance and user engagement.
• Familiarity with mobile infrastructure, including CI/CD, automated testing environments, and build & release systems.
• Comfort in navigating ambiguity, with the ability to set clear milestones and deliverables for the team.

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $163,000/yr to $194,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, $197,000/yr to $235,000/yr for San Francisco, New York & Seattle and $175,000(CAD)/yr to $208,000(CAD)/yr in Canada. Stock equity is additional. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.