Senior Product Manager, HR Apps

About Gusto

Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools.

Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 300,000 businesses nationwide.

Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life, and it starts right here at Gusto. That’s why we’re committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually.

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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 $153,000 to $191,000 / yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $186,000 to $230,000 / 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.

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.

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.

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