Principal Product Manager, Infrastructure

Summary

Join Gusto's Platform Orchestration team as their first Product Manager! This newly formed team is transforming Gusto's infrastructure into a self-service internal developer platform. You will own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for this key strategic initiative, collaborating with 600+ engineers and cross-functional stakeholders. This high-impact role requires 8+ years of product management experience, including 5+ years building technical internal products for a medium-sized software engineering organization. You'll be responsible for building reliable workflows, infusing a product mindset into an engineering team, and developing frameworks to assess and improve platform engineering capabilities. Gusto offers competitive compensation, benefits, and a mission-driven culture.

Requirements

• 8+ years of direct product management experience, including 5+ years of building technical internal products for a medium sized software Engineering organization with a focus on Platform Engineering, Platform-as-a-Service, and/or Engineering Tooling
• Has executed Engineering Organizational goals to improve engineering efficiency with demonstrated results
• Successfully collaborated with Infrastructure, Security, IT, and Product Engineering teams on balancing engineering efficiency in alignment with compliance and security
• Strong partnership with technical stakeholders in very technical domains
• Experienced crafting a strategic vision and roadmaps, evangelizing your vision, and executing against it over multiple years
• Comfortable with ambiguity
• Successfully developed continuous feedback between customer insights and team priorities

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap to transform Gusto’s Infrastructure group into a Platform Engineering organization
• Build reliable workflows that allow engineers to independently interact with our setup and self-serve the infrastructure they need to run their apps and services
• Work closely with the 600+ Engineering ICs and leaders across Gusto to drive the roadmap for a highly visible initiative
• Collaborate with multiple Engineering teams and cross-functional stakeholders
• Infuse an Engineering-only team with a product mindset
• Develop or utilize frameworks to assess ourselves and improve the maturity of our Platform Engineering capabilities

Benefits

• Our cash compensation amount for this role is $181,000/yr to $223,000/yr in Denver & most major metro locations, and $212,000/yr to $262,000/yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York
• We have offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York and have remote team members across the US and Canada
• Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City
• Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role)