Senior Marketing Manager, Indirect

Overview

Senior Marketing Manager, Indirect at Gusto

As a Senior Marketing Manager, you will drive growth across our accountant (indirect) channel through a mix of Account-Based Marketing (ABM), content generation, and paid media campaigns. You will lead the strategy, execution, and optimization of multi-channel programs, delivering the right message to the right partners at the right time. You’ll work closely with lifecycle marketing, product marketing, revenue operations, and Sales teams to conceptualize key moments of interaction across our user journey to ensure we’re communicating with partners in strategic, timely, and thoughtful ways. You’re data-driven and customer obsessed.

About The Role

As a Senior Marketing Manager, you will drive growth across our accountant (indirect) channel through ABM, content generation, and paid media campaigns. You’ll lead the strategy, execution, and optimization of multi-channel programs, delivering the right message to the right partners at the right time. You’ll work closely with lifecycle marketing, product marketing, revenue operations and Sales teams to conceptualize key moments of interaction across our user journey to ensure we’re communicating with partners in strategic, timely, and thoughtful ways. You’re data-driven and customer obsessed.

About The Team

This role is part of the go-to-market team responsible for driving pipeline and fueling growth across direct and indirect channels. We combine creativity, data-driven insights, and cross-functional collaboration to design campaigns that reach, engage, and convert the right audiences at scale. Together, we’ve helped Gusto grow to serve over 400,000 small businesses nationwide, and we’re just getting started.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a scalable acquisition and engagement playbook for our accountant channel, defining key partner segments and tailored strategies.
• Lead account-based marketing campaigns from end-to-end, including strategy, tactical execution, vendor management, and reporting.
• Partner with Revenue and Sales leaders to shape the long-term ABM strategy, with goals tied to pipeline creation, partner activation, and engagement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product Marketing, Sales, Marketing Ops, Sales Enablement, Lifecycle) to ensure consistent messaging and seamless partner experiences.
• Own the experimentation roadmap, testing and optimizing across channels (paid media, content syndication, email, events, etc.) to identify scalable programs.
• Drive content development (case studies, thought leadership, co-marketing materials) that resonates with accountants and strengthens Gusto’s brand.
• Provide ongoing reporting and insights on campaign effectiveness, sharing learnings to guide future strategy.
• Stay ahead of industry trends (AI, marketing tech, etc.) and bring innovative ideas to accelerate channel growth.

Qualifications

Compensation & Location

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $157,000 - $182,000 / yr in Denver & Phoenix, and $186,000 - $214,000 / yr for San Francisco & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

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). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.

Note : The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas.

When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required. This includes non-office days for hybrid employees.

About Gusto & Equal Opportunity

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto.

Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Gusto considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Gusto is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you require a medical or religious accommodation at any time throughout your candidate journey, please fill out this form and a member of our team will get in touch with you.

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