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Manage and grow a portfolio of strategic accounting firm partners for Gusto Pro. Responsibilities include account planning, QBRs, partner acquisition, renewals, upsells, contract negotiation, enablement, product adoption, executive relationship management, pipeline reporting, and cross-functional product feedback. The role requires frequent partner engagement, AI-enabled workflows, CRM and sales software experience, and travel to partner meetings and industry events.

Lead end-to-end UX for Gusto Payroll, define long-term vision, drive AI and automation initiatives, partner cross-functionally, mentor designers, and scale design systems to simplify complex payroll workflows.

Own and scale Gusto's VC and PE partnership strategy, building programmatic, high-leverage ecosystem motions. Lead partner portfolio decisions, design repeatable programs with Marketing/Events/Sales, track ARR and pipeline impact, and represent Gusto externally to drive founder and investor engagement.

Provides legal counsel for payroll, fintech, tax, payments, privacy, and product development. Partners with product, engineering, design, commercial, and risk teams; supports regulated product launches, contract negotiations, risk-based decisions, and scalable legal processes. Leads adoption of AI-driven legal review tools and develops playbooks, standards, and tooling to improve product legal operations.

Lead the configuration, optimization, and support of Workday HR and payroll solutions across HCM, Payroll, Absence, Time Tracking, Talent, and Compensation. Develop business processes, calculated fields, security roles, reports, dashboards, and testing strategies. Ensure data quality, audit readiness, release management, and system reliability while advising stakeholders, resolving complex issues, mentoring team members, and guiding best practices.

Design and lead AI architecture for FP&A planning, forecasting, reporting, and analysis. Build ML-assisted forecasting systems and agentic workflows for variance commentary, scenario modeling, board narratives, and financial queries. Establish governed finance data foundations, auditability, human-in-the-loop controls, and AI evaluations. Evaluate planning and AI tools, partner with Finance, Data, and Engineering, mentor teams, and measure improvements in forecast accuracy, cycle time, analyst capacity, and decision speed.

Leads end-to-end recruiting for design and specialized technology roles, specializing in sourcing senior design talent and advising hiring leaders. Builds talent pipelines, uses data and AI to improve search strategy, delivers high-touch candidate experiences, partners cross-functionally, and supports Product Management, Data, and other technical searches. Also develops San Francisco’s design community through local events and relationship-building.

Build and evolve backend payroll platform services and APIs used by multiple engineering teams. Own a core domain, ensuring correctness, scalability, reliability, performance, and observability. Lead architecture and design decisions, solve ambiguous technical problems independently, and partner with product and engineering teams on platform adoption. Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver compliant payroll capabilities while promoting responsible use of AI-assisted development tools.

Build customer-facing full-stack experiences for recommendations, nurture campaigns, booking flows, and plan upgrades. Design reliable backend APIs and data models, run experiments, improve conversion and retention, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Design, Data, and Platform teams. The role requires ownership of complex, multi-quarter projects, scalable architecture, refactoring, performance, reliability, and responsible use of AI tools.

Own the technical direction and business outcomes of Gusto’s expansion funnel, including recommendations, conversion journeys, experimentation, and retained revenue growth. Partner with Product, Design, and Data Science to shape roadmaps, make scoping decisions, build scalable architecture, and iterate based on data. Provide technical leadership through code reviews, mentoring, delegation, refactoring, and reliability improvements while delivering customer-facing products at scale.