Principal Product Manager, Payroll Experiences

Summary

Join Gusto as a Product Manager and lead the redesign of their flagship Payroll platform, ensuring scalable growth and future innovation. You will have full ownership of your product area, setting the strategic vision and executing the roadmap across all platforms. This role requires 8+ years of hands-on Product Management experience, particularly in highly regulated industries, and strong product discovery and analytical skills. You will collaborate closely with engineering, design, data, and other stakeholders to drive the roadmap forward. Gusto offers a competitive salary, benefits, and a mission-driven culture focused on empowering small businesses.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on Product Management experience
• Experience in building and launching successful products within highly regulated industries, ensuring compliance and mitigating risk
• Strong product discovery and analytical skills
• Exceptional cross functional collaboration and leadership skills. You’re a great listener, and naturally bring the team and stakeholders along, yet you don’t hesitate to make hard decisions when needed. You push the pace, and people feel like they do their best work with you
• Ability to identify emerging opportunities and industry trends, build business cases, define product vision and strategy, and create a supporting roadmap that rapidly iterates into delivering on your vision
• Entrepreneurial spirit. You’re driven and passionate about our mission, and have deep empathy for our customers
• A proven track record of leading high growth initiatives and building simple, elegant products at scale

Responsibilities

• Ownership : You will have ‘full stack’ ownership of your product area, from setting the strategic vision to building and executing the roadmap across all platforms (desktop, mobile web, native mobile)
• North Star : You will define top line business goals for your area and establish leading indicators to measure incremental progress
• Collaborate : You will drive your roadmap forward by working closely with your engineering, design, data counterparts, as well as stakeholders in marketing, sales, legal, compliance, partnerships, CX, and operations
• Lead redesign initiatives for Gusto's payroll platform, positioning it for scalable growth and future innovation

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in strategically integrating Artificial Intelligence to enhance customer interactions and develop innovative AI-driven product features

Benefits

• Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $181,000 to $223,000/yr in Denver & most major metro locations, and $212,000 to $262,000/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
• 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 Centers of Gravity: Toronto, Canada, Atlanta, GA, Austin, TX, Chicago, IL, Denver, CO, Los Angeles, CA, Miami, FL, and Seattle, WA
• 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)
• The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale
• When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required