Program Management, Embedded Payroll

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.

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About the Role:

As Gusto Embedded Payroll has continued to expand, our portfolio has grown to include increasingly custom and complex programs with Partners each serving thousands or hundreds of thousands of employers. We recognize the need for additional planning, facilitation, and coordination that brings together GEP workstreams, external Partner stakeholders and teams, and x-Gusto teams. Program Management within Gusto Embedded Payroll is a relatively new function, and you will be helping build out this new discipline. This role has two key areas of focus:

• Leading cross-functional initiatives while we build out implementations with our Partners.
• Focusing internally within the team to build scalable systems and tooling to help fuel our rapid growth goals.

This will be a dynamic role, working across multiple disciplines both internally and externally. You’ll work together with our teams (who are eager for the support!) to iterate and build those programs as we grow. Because we’re still in our early days with this function, you’ll have an ability to rapidly develop and deploy best practices to help scale (1->10 phase and beyond). You’ll be directly empowered by our Head of Program Management.

About the Team:

Gusto Embedded Payroll (“GEP”) allows us to bring our people platform to thousands more businesses than those we serve directly and will play a key role in Gusto’s growth. Learn more here and here.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• Project Planning and Expertise: Planning for and executing on intricate deliveries of custom, multi-workstream and -phase programs for GEP’s highest impact partner implementations
• GEP Interface: Connecting technical details, growth initiatives, and support needs, making sure all GEP teams work together in service of GEP mission and goals
• Cross-functional Facilitation: Coordinating across x-GEP and x-Gusto initiatives to include points of view, …