Jobs at Gusto

Own the end-to-end PEO onboarding experience, from discovery through setup. Set technical direction, design durable full-stack solutions, integrate systems across teams, and improve conversion through funnel instrumentation and experimentation. Build in a regulated domain with strong quality, testing, and observability standards. Use AI tools in engineering workflows and develop AI-assisted customer guidance. Influence cross-functional partners and raise engineering standards across the team.

Build and own backend services and APIs supporting retirement money movement, payments, settlements, reconciliation, compliance integrations, payroll, and financial workflows. The role involves shipping reliable production code, debugging incidents, improving observability, partnering with product, compliance, and operations, and mentoring engineers. Candidates should have extensive software engineering experience, financial systems expertise, end-to-end ownership, and Ruby on Rails or comparable backend framework experience.

Design, build, and ship production LLM-powered features for Gusto Retirement. Implement and integrate LLMs (RAG, agents, prompting, tool loops), make pragmatic architecture decisions, collaborate with product, design, and engineering, write reliable well-tested code, and drive end-to-end execution and iteration.

Leads enterprise recruiting process transformation, operational excellence, and technology-enabled improvements across recruiting operations and candidate experience. Oversees workflow redesign, automation, governance, metrics, compliance, service delivery, and cross-functional initiatives. Manages recruiting operations and candidate experience teams while partnering with Recruiting, People Technology, Legal, Finance, IT, Security, and business leaders to improve hiring efficiency, candidate satisfaction, and operational scalability.

Lead the design and product lifecycle of Gusto’s enterprise capability framework and talent development ecosystem. Build modular learning architecture, taxonomies, enablement programs, and workflow-integrated learning solutions. Partner with HR, technology teams, and executives to validate capability needs, prioritize investments, define AI-native skills, and establish scalable content governance. Use data tracking, rapid prototyping, generative AI, and A/B testing to optimize learning experiences and support organizational development.

Build and own backend services and APIs supporting money movement, payments, settlements, reconciliation, payroll integrations, retirement workflows, and financial compliance. Ship reliable production code, debug incidents, improve observability and operational tooling, and collaborate with product, compliance, operations, and engineering teams. Mentor engineers and ensure systems handling customer funds are correct, scalable, and well tested.

Own segmentation, book-of-business design, quota setting, and headcount capacity planning across multiple sales motions. Build defensible quantitative models, maintain account assignment and routing logic, manage quota administration, and partner with GTM leaders, Finance, Sales Compensation, and Operations. The role requires recurring planning processes, scenario modeling, clear documentation, and confident communication of methodology, tradeoffs, and risks.

Develop and scale compensation programs, policies, and workflows. Lead merit, equity, benchmarking, and compensation cycles; conduct market and pay equity analyses; build dashboards and automation; ensure regulatory compliance; craft competitive offers; and advise HR, Finance, Legal, recruiters, and executives on compensation strategy and decisions.

Supports compensation programs and cycles, including merit, promotions, equity refreshes, benchmarking, offer modeling, audits, reporting, and compliance. Partners with HR, Finance, Legal, and business leaders to maintain accurate compensation data across Workday and Pave. Uses spreadsheets, AI tools, and automation to improve recurring analysis and workflows while handling confidential information and answering compensation questions.

Own and develop Gusto’s PeopleOS internal HR platform, integrations, and AI-powered tooling. Build full-stack software, REST API integrations, MCP servers, and Claude-based workflows across Workday, Greenhouse, Slack, Google Workspace, and other systems. Partner with People Operations stakeholders on design, implementation, testing, documentation, releases, troubleshooting, and user feedback. Handle sensitive HR data while delivering reliable employee-facing tools.

Owns Gusto’s money transmission and related state financial services licensing portfolio, including NMLS filings, renewals, amendments, reports, surety bonds, examinations, regulatory correspondence, and license conditions. Coordinates with Legal, Finance, Treasury, Product, and Operations; monitors regulatory changes; maintains filing evidence and deadlines; and uses AI-enabled workflows with human review to improve scalability and examination readiness.

Owns the roadmap and business outcomes for Gusto Wallet’s consumer banking products. The role delivers spending, saving, credit, and money-management experiences across the customer lifecycle, while coordinating with engineering, design, data, risk, compliance, legal, operations, and external financial vendors. The product manager will use customer research, accounting knowledge, data analysis, AI tools, and KPI measurement to build compliant, reliable fintech products.

Own the development and growth of Gusto’s SMB banking product from pre-beta through scale. Lead workstreams covering onboarding, identity verification, funding, payments, cards, servicing, and platform integration. Drive acquisition, activation, experimentation, account primacy, and deposit growth while coordinating with engineering, design, data, risk, compliance, legal, operations, and external banking vendors. Apply fintech and banking expertise to create compliant, self-serve products tailored to small-business cash flow and spending needs.

Leads enterprise-wide People Operations process transformation, HRIS Operations, and People Services. Develops strategies, redesigns employee lifecycle workflows, drives automation and AI-enabled improvements, establishes governance and metrics, improves HR service delivery, and manages cross-functional teams. Partners with HR, Finance, Legal, IT, Security, and business leaders to deliver scalable, compliant, data-driven operational improvements.

Own end-to-end delivery of greenfield, full-stack product areas for Gusto Solo. Design scalable architectures and data models, build backend APIs and frontend experiences, use AI tools and develop AI-native features including MCP tools, and collaborate with Product, Design, Data Science, and GTM. Help shape product direction, engineering practices, and technical foundations in a high-autonomy environment.

Design, build, test, and scale Gusto’s invoicing and billing platform, including subscriptions, orders, invoice generation, payments, reporting, and accounting integrations. Lead architecture, performance, reliability, and large-scale refactoring for high-throughput distributed systems. Mentor engineers, collaborate across product and business teams, support new billing models, and use AI tools to accelerate development and testing.

Architect and build native iOS and Android financial products using SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, and GraphQL. Lead mobile architecture, infrastructure, testing, release pipelines, and multi-quarter initiatives while applying AI workflows. Collaborate cross-functionally in a regulated banking environment, resolve ambiguous technical problems, maintain performance and security, and mentor engineers across both platforms.

Build and scale Gusto’s Growth operations function by identifying high-leverage opportunities, applying attribution, LTV, and experimentation rigor, and creating shared planning and prioritization mechanisms across Growth, Product, and GTM. Serve as a strategic advisor to leadership, automate operating workflows with AI, align teams around shared outcomes, and potentially build and lead a team as scope expands.

Leads Symmetry’s enterprise B2B marketing strategy and team across demand generation, product and lifecycle marketing, digital marketing, sales enablement, analytics, and brand positioning. Drives lead generation, nurturing, customer retention, upsell opportunities, SEO, content, and data-informed campaign optimization. The role requires marketing technical AI, API, and SaaS products for developer audiences while operating as a strategic leader and hands-on builder.

Serve as the strategic analytics partner to GTM leadership, connecting Finance, Revenue Operations, Product, Growth, and sales leaders. Build trusted analytics infrastructure, define metrics and reporting, develop scenario models, and translate complex business decisions into executive recommendations. Own recurring business reviews and the end-to-end view of sales performance across routes to market, helping leaders evaluate product, pricing, compensation, organizational, and market changes.