Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Gusto as a Senior Engineering leader to spearhead the cross-functional strategy for the Contractors team, a group of over 40 individuals across various departments. This role, reporting to the Head of Engineering, Contractors, will be instrumental in shaping the roadmap and vision of the Payroll product, a core product for Gusto's 400,000+ customers, generating over $600,000,000 in annual recurring revenue. The Contractors team focuses on enabling businesses to onboard and pay contractors in 120+ countries, offering features like payroll setup, preparation, submission, reporting, time tracking, and shift scheduling. This position offers the opportunity to significantly impact both the product and the customers who rely on it daily.

Requirements

• 10+ years software engineering experience
• Managed highly distributed engineering teams for a minimum of 5 years, with a minimum of 2 years managing managers
• 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 Contractors engineering team, including the recruitment, hiring, and empowerment of a world-class team
• Work cross functionally with design leadership and product management leadership to build and drive Gusto’s Payroll product vision and strategy
• 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
• Empowering a team of engineers, 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 for most remote locations, $208,000-$258,000 for Baltimore, Washington DC, and Boston, and $225,000-$275,000 for New York
• Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience, level, and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above
• 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)
• The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale
• Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas
• When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required