Gusto
Senior Product Manager, Payroll Engine
Gusto, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
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Pay found in job post Retrieved from the description.
Base pay range $152,000.00/yr - $230,000.00/yr
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 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. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy.
What Product Management Is Like At Gusto
We’re looking for high-autonomy, entrepreneurial Product Managers to 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 shaping the product from strategy setting through execution 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.
About The Team
Payroll is the beating heart of Gusto. The Payroll Engine team owns the systems that calculate every paycheck and orchestrate the workflows for tax calculation, payments, filings, and compliance for over 400,000 small businesses nationwide. The team focuses on extensibility, observability, and enabling other teams to move faster with reliability and flexibility. We collaborate with Engineering, Design, Compliance, Legal, CX, Data Science, and Operations to meet customer and internal needs today and into the future.
Here’s What You’ll Do Day-to-day
Ownership:
Lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution for the core systems that power every payroll run at Gusto. Drive platform improvements in extensibility, observability, and developer experience.
North Star:
Identify critical opportunities for impact by aligning customer outcomes, business goals, and technical realities to guide prioritization.
Collaborate & Evangelize:
Work with Engineering, Compliance, Design, Data Science, CX, Legal, and Operations to tackle high-stakes problems in a regulated domain and champion platform adoption.
Customer Impact:
Tie platform investments to customer outcomes by using data and business context to prioritize work that improves accuracy and trust.
Execution Excellence:
Focus on long-term quality, scalability, and flexibility while delivering impact through thoughtful execution.
Here’s What We're Looking For
5+ years of product management experience, including ownership of platform or infrastructure systems in technically complex environments.
Proven track record of shipping high-scale, backend or platform products with measurable business and customer impact.
Strong systems thinking and product craft, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, influence without authority, and drive clarity across cross-functional teams.
Experience developing multi-year strategies, balancing flexibility and stability, and modernizing critical systems to enable broader product innovation.
Comfort in regulated or compliance-sensitive domains (e.g., fintech, payroll, HR, legal tech) with a focus on trust, accuracy, and risk reduction.
If you don't think you meet all of the criteria above but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we’re looking for someone excited to join the team.
Compensation: Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $152,000 to $190,000/yr in Denver and most major metro locations, and $184,000 to $230,000/yr for San Francisco, New York, & Seattle. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including location, experience, and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Where do PMs at Gusto work?
We have offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York and remote team members across the US and Canada. We are also hiring for hubs in Toronto, Canada and Seattle, WA. Open roles will specify location eligibility on the careers page and in the job description.
Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City with some roles requiring in-office days (approx. 2-3 days per week or as role requires).
Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas. A secure, reliable internet connection is required when approved to work remotely.
We hire from diverse backgrounds. If you share our values and enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto.
EEO Information
Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristics. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in line with federal, state, and local law. We provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans upon request. If you require accommodations during the candidate journey, please contact us.
Gusto takes security and protection of personal information seriously. Please review our Fraudulent Activity Disclaimer and Applicant Privacy Notice.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Product Management and Marketing
Industries
Software Development
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Pay found in job post Retrieved from the description.
Base pay range $152,000.00/yr - $230,000.00/yr
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 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. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy.
What Product Management Is Like At Gusto
We’re looking for high-autonomy, entrepreneurial Product Managers to 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 shaping the product from strategy setting through execution 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.
About The Team
Payroll is the beating heart of Gusto. The Payroll Engine team owns the systems that calculate every paycheck and orchestrate the workflows for tax calculation, payments, filings, and compliance for over 400,000 small businesses nationwide. The team focuses on extensibility, observability, and enabling other teams to move faster with reliability and flexibility. We collaborate with Engineering, Design, Compliance, Legal, CX, Data Science, and Operations to meet customer and internal needs today and into the future.
Here’s What You’ll Do Day-to-day
Ownership:
Lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution for the core systems that power every payroll run at Gusto. Drive platform improvements in extensibility, observability, and developer experience.
North Star:
Identify critical opportunities for impact by aligning customer outcomes, business goals, and technical realities to guide prioritization.
Collaborate & Evangelize:
Work with Engineering, Compliance, Design, Data Science, CX, Legal, and Operations to tackle high-stakes problems in a regulated domain and champion platform adoption.
Customer Impact:
Tie platform investments to customer outcomes by using data and business context to prioritize work that improves accuracy and trust.
Execution Excellence:
Focus on long-term quality, scalability, and flexibility while delivering impact through thoughtful execution.
Here’s What We're Looking For
5+ years of product management experience, including ownership of platform or infrastructure systems in technically complex environments.
Proven track record of shipping high-scale, backend or platform products with measurable business and customer impact.
Strong systems thinking and product craft, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, influence without authority, and drive clarity across cross-functional teams.
Experience developing multi-year strategies, balancing flexibility and stability, and modernizing critical systems to enable broader product innovation.
Comfort in regulated or compliance-sensitive domains (e.g., fintech, payroll, HR, legal tech) with a focus on trust, accuracy, and risk reduction.
If you don't think you meet all of the criteria above but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we’re looking for someone excited to join the team.
Compensation: Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $152,000 to $190,000/yr in Denver and most major metro locations, and $184,000 to $230,000/yr for San Francisco, New York, & Seattle. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including location, experience, and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Where do PMs at Gusto work?
We have offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York and remote team members across the US and Canada. We are also hiring for hubs in Toronto, Canada and Seattle, WA. Open roles will specify location eligibility on the careers page and in the job description.
Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City with some roles requiring in-office days (approx. 2-3 days per week or as role requires).
Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas. A secure, reliable internet connection is required when approved to work remotely.
We hire from diverse backgrounds. If you share our values and enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto.
EEO Information
Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristics. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in line with federal, state, and local law. We provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans upon request. If you require accommodations during the candidate journey, please contact us.
Gusto takes security and protection of personal information seriously. Please review our Fraudulent Activity Disclaimer and Applicant Privacy Notice.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Product Management and Marketing
Industries
Software Development
Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Gusto. Get notified about new Senior Product Manager jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area.
#J-18808-Ljbffr