Senior Product Manager
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 lead discovery, strategy, and execution for new payroll tax products, define market positioning and product direction, identify strategic investments, build alignment across functions, and deliver new revenue and retention outcomes.
Requirements
- 6+ years of hands-on product management experience
- 3+ years of experience building products from 0 to 1
- Deep product discovery skills
- Experience building 0-to-1 products in highly regulated categories
- Experience building personalized products or optimized workflows using Gen AI or ML
- Cross-functional collaboration and leadership experience
- Ability to identify emerging opportunities and industry trends
- Ability to build business cases
- Ability to define product vision and strategy
- Ability to create and iterate product roadmaps
- Experience building products at scale with good UX
- Payroll or payroll tax experience is a bonus
Responsibilities
- Lead long-term product strategy
- Spearhead research and define customer and market positioning
- Shape product direction
- Identify investments and internal capabilities required for success
- Translate strategy into actionable company-wide guidance
- Identify high-leverage investments and decisions
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Legal, CX, Marketing, Sales, and Operations
- Uncover insights and validate assumptions
- Build cross-functional alignment
- Clarify requirements and initiate strategic initiatives
- Drive execution and enable others to succeed
Benefits
- Equity in the form of RSUs
- Hybrid work option
