Senior Product Manager - HR Apps

About the Team:

Gusto is at an meaningful inflection point in our scale. We are solving ever increasing and more complex jobs for our customers and we care deeply about doing it in a way that feels integrated and cohesive to customers — great UX is one of our differentiators — while also enabling teams to move quickly to design ship and release features our customers need. To enable this we’re making a meaningful investment in building a people platform with the right HR Apps such as Performance Management Learning and Management System Applicant Tracking system so SMBs have the right tools to hire and retain great talent.

About the Role:

The Senior Product Manager HR Apps will play a critical leadership role in the strategy and execution of this vision playing a cross-organizational leadership role to inspire teams across Gusto to build on top of our platform.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• As PM for our HR Apps team you’ll develop products and tools that enable our customers to attract hire develop and retain successful teams and stay compliant

• Partner and collaborate closely with a cross-functional team comprising of Product Managers Designers Engineers and tech leads

Key Attributes:

• Focus on client facing products though strong product-minded leaders in other crafts who fit the profile are also welcomed to apply

• Strong opinions and high standards around the user experience — is particularly adept at thinking about systems cohesiveness and how to approach governance

• Energized by customer empathy and understanding while being able to speak to how customer impact is driving the business forward

• Thinks of themselves as a cross functional business leader first — is not tied to a particular craft swim lane

• Able to move from high altitude brainstorming and architecture down into problem solving and unblocking teams in the weeds when it’s required

• Executive presence and strong storytelling skills — can craft a simple vision for a complex system inspire people to rally around it and drive iterative but meaningful results

Here’s what we're looking for:

• 5+ years as a product management working on high growth digital experiences focused on customer facing products

• Demonstrated experience scaling platform products end-to-end

• Ideal candidates will have seen products through a period of growth transition or change and will have proven methodologies and tangible examples for how they’ve driven adoption

• Experienced defining and tracking key metrics that matter and align the whole org around them.

• Excellent technical acumen with the ability to understand technical diagrams and discuss tradeoffs in approach with senior engineers

Our cash compensation range for this role is $153000 to $191000/yr in Denver & most remote locations and $186000 to $230000/yr in San Francisco New York & Seattle. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate location experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.