Principal 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. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy. 

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 Principal 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:

• Share impact they’ve had to their peers and cross-functional stakeholders in specific, tangible, and non-jargony terms
• Focus on client facing products though strong product-minded leaders in other crafts who fit the profile are also welcomed to apply
• Excellent technical acumen with the ability to understand technical diagrams and discuss tradeoffs in approach with senior engineers
• Strong opinions and high standards around the user experience — is particularly adept at thinking about systems, cohesiveness, and how to approach governance 
• Has managed very senior people before and knows how to align them, when to give space, and when and how to coach and motivate
• Undaunted by organizational complexity and relishes in change management and unsticking sticky situations
• 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 …