Senior Product Manager, Payroll Engine

Job Description

• Leading the strategy, roadmap, and execution for the core systems that power every payroll run at Gusto.
• Driving platform improvements in extensibility, observability, and developer experience.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to tackle complex, high-stakes problems.
• Championing platform adoption by ensuring the Payroll Engine is intuitive, flexible, and easy to build on.

• 5+ years of product management experience, including meaningful ownership of platform or infrastructure systems in technically complex environments.
• Proven track record of shipping high-scale, backend or platform products with real business and customer impact.
• Strong systems thinking and product craft, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, influence without authority, and drive clarity across engineering and cross-functional teams.
• Experience developing multi-year strategies, balancing flexibility and stability, and modernizing critical systems in a way that enables broader product innovation.
• Comfort working in regulated or compliance-sensitive domains such as fintech, payroll, HR, or legal tech, with a deep appreciation for trust, accuracy, and risk reduction.

• Opportunity to lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution for the core systems that power every payroll run at Gusto.
• Chance to drive platform improvements in extensibility, observability, and developer experience.
• Collaborative environment with Engineering, Compliance, Design, Data Science, CX, Legal, and Operations teams.