Product Counsel
Gusto is a payroll and HR platform that helps small businesses pay domestic and international employees, manage benefits, and automate compliance.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
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About Gusto
Gusto serves small and mid-sized businesses with payroll processing, employee benefits administration, and HR tools in one platform. Users can run payroll, manage health insurance, hire globally, and pay international contractors in local currency or USDC stablecoins. The platform automates payroll tax filings across multiple states and integrates with tools like QuickBooks and Xero.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will provide legal support to HR Apps product, engineering, and operations teams. You will identify regulatory risks, develop compliance resources, research employment law developments, resolve customer escalations, support vendor reviews and integrations, and draft and revise terms and go-to-market communications.
Requirements
- 5+ years of legal experience
- Deep understanding of employment law and litigation
- Experience providing legal guidance on employment obligations
- Experience building compliance resources
- Experience using AI tools
- Ability to build consensus and working relationships
- JD degree
- Current membership and license to practice law in a State bar
Responsibilities
- Provide tactical legal support to HR Apps product, engineering, and operations teams
- Review product requirements and identify compliance and regulatory risks
- Develop HR Apps compliance artifacts and maintain the compliance hub
- Build AI-driven workflows, checklists, playbooks, and review frameworks
- Research regulatory areas and monitor legislative changes
- Resolve customer escalations and operational legal questions
- Support vendor review, onboarding, partner integrations, and go-to-market communications
- Draft and revise terms
Benefits
- Equity in the form of RSUs
- Benefits
- Hybrid work option
