Senior Engineering Manager, Payroll Experiences

Summary

Join Gusto's Payroll Experiences team as a Senior Engineering Leader! Lead and empower a team of over 15 engineers, product managers, designers, and data scientists. Collaborate cross-functionally to drive the product vision and strategy for Gusto's flagship Payroll product. Develop and execute the roadmap, ensuring high-quality solutions are delivered in a fast-paced environment. Leverage your 10+ years of software engineering experience and 5+ years managing highly distributed teams to scale engineering organizations. Shape the future of payroll at a leading company serving over 300,000 businesses.

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 Payroll Experiences 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

Benefits

• Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $191,000-$237,000 in Denver, $208,000-$258,000 for Los Angeles and most remote locations, $225,000-$279,000 for San Francisco, New York, and Seattle
• 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