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Manage and grow a portfolio of strategic accounting firm partners for Gusto Pro. Responsibilities include account planning, QBRs, partner acquisition and development, renewals, upsells, contract negotiation, enablement, feature adoption, executive relationship management, sales reporting, and cross-functional product feedback. The role requires integrating AI into daily sales workflows and includes travel to partner meetings, industry events, and conferences.

Lead design for Gusto's Payroll product, managing a team of designers, defining UX vision, and collaborating cross-functionally to simplify payroll processes.

Own and scale Gusto's VC & PE partnership strategy, building programmatic, high-leverage partner motions. Lead cross-functional initiatives with Marketing, Events, Sales, and internal teams to drive ARR, pipeline influence, and founder reach while serving as Tier 1 contact for high-impact partners and representing Gusto externally.

Provides end-to-end legal advice for payroll, fintech, tax, payments, privacy, and regulated product development. Partners with product, engineering, design, commercial, and risk teams; negotiates with counterparties; manages product legal risk; and builds scalable legal processes, playbooks, and AI-powered review tools. The role also drives innovation, advises on domestic and international product launches, and helps business teams make risk-based decisions.

Lead the configuration, enhancement, reporting, security, testing, and support of Workday across payroll, absence, time tracking, HCM, talent, and compensation. Develop business processes, calculated fields, reports, dashboards, and audit controls; lead release testing and issue resolution; ensure data quality and scalable solutions. Partner with People, IT, and cross-functional stakeholders, advise senior partners, mentor team members, and guide Workday best practices and policy development.

Lead full-cycle recruiting for design and specialized technology roles, with a focus on sourcing, talent advising, market mapping, candidate experience, and senior stakeholder partnership. Build always-on talent pipelines, use data and AI to improve recruiting strategies, and flex into Product Management, Data, and other technical searches. Develop San Francisco’s design community through events and relationships while collaborating across People, compensation, operations, and candidate experience teams.

Design and lead AI-enabled FP&A architecture across planning, forecasting, reporting, and variance analysis. Build ML-assisted forecasts and agentic workflows, establish governed finance data foundations, implement auditability and controls, evaluate tools, and drive AI adoption across Finance. Partner with Finance, Data, Engineering, and the CFO organization while measuring forecast accuracy, cycle-time reduction, and decision efficiency.

Own the technical strategy and outcomes for Gusto’s expansion funnel, including recommendations, nurture journeys, and self-service conversion experiences. Partner with Product, Design, and Data Science to define roadmaps, design experiments, iterate from results, and deliver measurable revenue impact. Lead architecture, technical direction, code quality, mentoring, delegation, refactoring, reliability, and performance initiatives across customer-facing products.

Build and own backend payroll platform services and APIs used by multiple engineering teams. Drive architecture, scalability, reliability, observability, and performance for compliant payroll processing. Partner with product and engineering teams to solve ambiguous technical problems, guide platform adoption, and evolve foundational systems. Use AI-assisted development tools and help promote responsible adoption across the team.

Build and lead customer-facing expansion experiences across recommendations, nurture campaigns, booking flows, and plan upgrades. Design frontend applications, backend APIs, data models, and experimentation programs that improve conversion, adoption, and retention. Own complex multi-quarter initiatives, mentor engineers, address performance and reliability challenges, and collaborate with Product, Design, Data, and Platform teams to deliver measurable customer impact.