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Lead product design for Gusto Retirement, partnering with Product, Engineering, Data, and Research to define strategy, prototype, test, and ship high-trust, compliant retirement experiences. Drive cohesive journeys across payroll and benefits, apply AI to accelerate prototyping, mentor designers, evolve the design system, and measure outcomes to boost activation, adoption, and retention.

Architect and manage distributed database systems, performing complex migrations, and improving infrastructure efficiency while mentoring teams.

Design, build, and harden asynchronous infrastructure and developer tooling to improve engineer productivity. Lead architecture and code-level solutions for background jobs and async communication (Sidekiq, Kafka/Karafka), drive large-scale code migrations using AI, and collaborate with product engineers to measure and iterate on platform improvements and incident resilience.

The Senior Product Manager will lead the development of payroll tax products, focusing on strategy, collaboration, and execution to drive market success and customer value.

Lead architecture, development, testing, and refinement of Gusto's iOS app and embedded mobile web views. Scale shared services and mobile infrastructure (build pipelines, CI/CD, test automation, release processes), implement core platform features (push notifications, accessibility, localization), use AI agents to accelerate delivery, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers while iterating on product features that integrate core business and financial functions.

Lead financial services compliance for consumer and commercial products, payments, and embedded finance. Advise Product, Engineering, Legal, and business partners on regulatory requirements, build and scale compliance programs, run monitoring and control testing, manage vendor and banking partner oversight, and design AI-enabled compliance workflows to support regulatory change management, risk assessment, and remediation.

Lead design and implementation of the Tax platform, scale Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React systems, build APIs and tools for reliability and extensibility, integrate safe agentic AI guardrails, drive technical strategy and roadmap, improve incident response, and mentor engineers to deliver compliant, fault-tolerant systems.

Lead and grow Gusto's Sales Analytics team to rebuild sales data infrastructure, advance forecasting and causal-inference capabilities, deliver actionable revenue insights, enable AI-driven self-service analytics, and partner cross-functionally to drive scalable, high-impact analytics for acquisition and expansion.

Partner with Engineering, Data Science, and Security/IT leaders to drive talent programs, analyze people data, manage performance, promotions, calibrations and org design, own end-to-end reorg execution, and build scalable People frameworks while liaising between R&D and central People functions.

As a Principal Software Engineer, design, build, and test scalable payroll and tax systems, lead technical efforts across teams, mentor engineers, and integrate AI solutions to enhance product efficiency.