About the position
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 400,000 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. We’re looking for high-autonomy, entrepreneurial Product Managers to come build high-impact solutions for small businesses and their employees. We believe in high-ownership Product Managers who operate like business owners - owning an entire roadmap end to end and shipping product all the way from strategy through to the nitty gritty details. Our Product team is lean, which means you’ll have a high degree of impact and ownership. We’re here to serve small and medium businesses. Gusto has a strong mission-driven culture, and we care deeply about lifting up these business owners.
Responsibilities
- Define and prioritize high-impact initiatives, driving clarity and alignment across the organization to achieve cohesive end-to-end customer solutions.
- Navigate complex regulatory environments, shaping strategic initiatives that achieve and iterate on product-market fit while enabling scale.
- Partner deeply with compliance, engineering, design, marketing, and operations teams to align cross-functional efforts, clearly manage dependencies, and deliver transformative customer experiences.
- Accelerate team expertise in entity management and regulatory compliance through mentorship and strategic leadership.
Requirements
- 5+ years of direct Product Management experience, specifically within highly regulated, compliance-sensitive domains such as fintech, payroll, tax, or legal tech.
- Demonstrated track record successfully building products from zero-to-one, including defining strategic vision and executing through launch.
- Comfort and resilience in ambiguous environments, adept at clarifying complex initiatives and structuring actionable strategies despite incomplete or evolving regulations.
- Proven ability integrating human-powered operations with technology-driven solutions, optimizing workflows over time through automation.
- Experience effectively navigating organizational complexities and legacy systems, driving incremental progress through thoughtful risk management and persistent execution.
- Exceptional cross-functional influence, able to build alignment across engineering, compliance, operations, and marketing teams without direct authority.
- Skilled communicator, translating complex regulatory requirements into clear product strategies that teams can act on confidently and quickly.
Benefits
- Competitive salary ranging from $184,000/yr to $230,000/yr in Denver & most major metro locations, and $152,000/yr to $190,000/yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York.
- Flexible work environment with options for remote work.
- Collaborative and inclusive workplace culture.
