Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Gusto as a Senior Engineering Leader to spearhead the cross-functional strategy for our User-Facing Reporting and Analytics team. You will manage user reporting and analytics, ensuring users receive necessary data in the required format. This critical role involves leading a team, building scalable reporting platforms, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and leveraging data for key insights and operational efficiencies. You will build and maintain data models, automated reports, and dashboards using various BI tools. The position requires extensive experience in software engineering, team management, and analytical tools. Gusto offers competitive compensation and benefits, including flexible work arrangements.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years of managing highly distributed engineering teams, and at least 2 years leading other engineering managers
• 6+ years of experience working with analytical tools and languages such as SQL,PowerBI/Tableau, Suplari, Coupa Analytics or Databricks
• Experience with ELT data modeling and building analytical narratives using data visualizations
• Experience with MLOps tooling such as KubeFlow, AWS Sagemaker, MLFlow, or other ML Ops tools
• Experience in scaling engineering organizations with a focus on individual and team development
• Ability to balance business needs, development for multiple product lines, and shipping high quality solutions
• Strong technical acumen with the ability to understand and debate tradeoffs and approaches to building scalable architecture and data models
• A high standard, systems-first approach, and strong point of view for the user experience informed by customer empathy, research, data, and customer support insights
• Strong product opinions, including the ability to tell a story about where we’re going that is clear and inspiring, and work with teams to map dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs to increase velocity and make the vision real
• Sharp skills as a builder — even as you’ve become a strategic leader, you are fundamentally a builder who can jump into problem solving with team members when they need the support

Responsibilities

• Lead Gusto’s Reporting engineering team, including the recruitment, hiring, and empowerment of a world-class team
• In this position, you will be responsible for building scalable user facing reports and dashboard platform while maintaining our data infrastructure, ensuring data quality, integrity, and accuracy
• You will work cross-functionally with engineering, product, design, and stakeholder teams to lead various initiatives to advance our data and reporting solutions
• You will leverage our data to identify key insights and create operational efficiencies, as well as produce accurate and meaningful analysis to drive business decisions
• Build, develop, and maintain data models, automated reports, and dashboards using BI/Dashboarding tools such as PowerBI, ServiceNow, Tableau, and Salesforce
• Meet with stakeholders from business and engineering to understand OKR requirements and convert them into analytical solutions
• Analyze datasets to discover meaningful patterns, trends, and relationships to improve operational and productivity across our organization
• Refine, enhance, and automate processes and reports by managing tables/views and data pipelines
• Responsible for driving the development of product and core platform in a fast paced, start-up environment
• Providing technical leadership in defining the product and platform solutions
• Understand customer pain points, devise solutions, and then iterate through prototyping and frequent, successful product launches
• Work cross functionally with design leadership and product management leadership to build and drive Gusto’s access and workflow product vision and strategy
• Empowering a team of senior engineers, operating in architects capacity and also engineering people empowerers (managers, creating alignment, clarity, high morale, driving quick but informed decision making, and helping them get unblocked

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in highly cross-functional environments for highly complex products preferred

Benefits

• Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $191,000-$237,000 in Denver, $208,000-$258,000 in most remote locations, and $225,000-$279,000 for San Francisco & New York
• 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)
• When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required