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Leads Gusto’s Risk & Money Services organization, overseeing fraud and payment risk, BSA/AML operational response, Reg E disputes, collections, and consumer money products. Builds governance, controls, SLAs, metrics, audit readiness, and scalable operating procedures while partnering with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Legal, sponsor banks, regulators, and auditors. Owns high-stakes financial decisions, customer experience, regulatory posture, team development, and AI-enabled transformation across Gusto’s financial services portfolio.

As a Senior Data Scientist, the role involves leveraging data analysis, experimentation, and statistical methods to influence business decisions and enhance Gusto's product performance, while mentoring team members.

Design, build, test, and scale Gusto’s payments infrastructure and platform. Make architectural decisions focused on fault tolerance, scalability, and modularity; modernize Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React systems; collaborate across engineering, product, design, data science, and operations; deliver software supporting millions of businesses; and mentor fellow engineers.

Own the full sales cycle for Gusto’s PEO offering, from prospecting and discovery through demos, complex stakeholder navigation, and closing. Sell to net-new prospects and existing payroll customers, build broker and accountant referral channels, manage Salesforce pipeline and forecasting, and serve as a PEO subject matter expert. Leverage AI in daily sales workflows, collaborate cross-functionally, and help build the company’s founding PEO sales motion.

Lead go-to-market strategy and experimentation for new products, offers, and market motions. Develop segmentation, positioning, pricing, and cross-product narratives; synthesize market and customer insights; coordinate Product, Sales, Growth, Marketing, and Customer Experience teams; establish processes for ambiguous initiatives; define success metrics; and optimize performance through iterative testing. The role focuses on proving product-market fit before handing successful motions to established product marketing teams.

Build and scale Gusto's ML/AI platform: design MLOps solutions, automated pipelines, model development frameworks, deployment, monitoring, CI/CD, and observability; collaborate with ML engineers and apply AI tools and best practices to production ML systems.

Design, build, test, and operate Gusto core customer-facing products across frontend and backend. Own multi-quarter projects, scale Ruby/Rails and JavaScript/React systems, mentor engineers, collaborate with product, data, design, and platform teams, and iterate on features that deliver measurable customer impact.

Lead UX vision and strategy across Business Money, Consumer Money, Payments, and Risk. Identify cross-team, high-impact opportunities; influence product strategy and OKRs; define AI-first financial UX; do hands-on design and prototyping; mentor designers; and evolve design system patterns to scale cohesive, trustworthy financial experiences.

Lead architecture and delivery of Gusto's Commerce Platform (product catalog, promotion engine, subscription, entitlements). Partner with product, data science, and cross-functional teams to drive large, multi-quarter platform projects, ensure reliability and SLOs, mentor engineers, and promote AI-augmented development and platform adoption.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Salesforce Apex solutions supporting Sales and Customer Experience teams. Use AI coding assistants throughout development, apply Salesforce architecture and release-management practices, deploy with sf CLI, and build reliable production systems at scale. Improve deployed features, measure impact, document code, and contribute beyond Salesforce when needed. Translate ambiguous requirements into scalable technical solutions and business value.