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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 400,000 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.
By the Numbers:
- Named #1 best software for small business of 2024 by G2
- 2,700+ employees in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Turkiye and growing
- Over $500M in annual revenue
- The SMB market is large (and growing!) with huge opportunities for Gusto to make an incredible impact for SMBs
- There are 6.2M employers in the US, 98% have fewer than 100 employees (1)
- 550,000 new businesses are created each year in the US (1)
What Product Management is like at Gusto:
- We’re looking for high-autonomy, entrepreneurial Product Managers to come build high-impact solutions for small businesses and their employees. We believe in high-ownership Product Managers who operate like business owners - owning an entire roadmap end to end and shipping product all the way from strategy through to the nitty gritty details (some describe this kind of role as a “GM” type role).
- Our Product team is lean, which means you’ll have a high degree of impact and ownership.
- We’re here to serve small and medium businesses. Gusto has a strong mission-driven culture, and we care deeply about lifting up these business owners.
About the Team:
Gusto Benefits is on a mission to expand and enable access to quality health and financial benefits. We aspire to be the #1 Benefits solution for Small Mid-Sized Businesses. Large employers have teams of experts helping them craft high-quality and cost-effective Benefits packages. SMBs have Gusto.
Our Benefits Product team is responsible for the full stack of Gusto’s Benefits product including the front-end app, its underlying platform services, and internal tooling for our Operations teams. As a Principal Product Manager, you will be provided an opportunity to play a meaningful role fulfilling Gusto’s mission and growing Gusto’s business.
Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:
- North Star: Thoughtfully expand Gusto’s health insurance portfolio to meet customer demand and solve the largest barriers to health insurance access for SMB owners and their employees: the rising cost and complexity of insurance.
- Ownership: Oversee 0 → 1 and 1 → 1k+ product development for new health insurance offerings. Deeply understand our SMB customers and synthesize a wide-range of insights to assess alternatives for Gusto to offer. Run early pilots and define and implement the post-pilot product, go-to-market and service strategy to enable efficient and effective scaling.
- Collaborate: Oversee strategic conversations with current and new carrier partners to understand and influence their strategic roadmaps to better serve SMBs. Explore and implement solutions to improve quality and lower cost of customers health insurance and healthcare. Be an end to end owner of products and businesses responsible for adoption, customer experience, and cost to serve.
Here’s what we're looking for:
- 8+ years of hands-on product management experience.
- Experience bringing new (0 → 1) health insurance products to market by building the software, go-to-market, and service models to enable successful pilot and scaling.
- Exceptional communicator, cross functional collaborator, and leader.
- Ability to identify emerging opportunities and industry trends, build business cases, define product vision and strategy, and create a supporting roadmap that rapidly iterates into delivering on your vision.
- Entrepreneurial, driven, passionate about our mission, and have deep empathy for our customers.
- Experience working in operationally complex spaces and regulated industries.
- A proven track record of building products that customers love.
If you don't think you meet all of the criteria above but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.
Our cash compensation amount for this role is $181,000/yr to $223,000/yr in Denver most major metro locations, and $212,000/yr to $262,000/yr for San Francisco, Seattle New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate location, experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Where do PMs at Gusto work?
We have offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York and have remote team members across the US and Canada. We are actively hiring for the following Centers of Gravity: Toronto, Canada, Atlanta, GA, Austin, TX, Chicago, IL, Denver, CO, Los Angeles, CA, Miami, FL, and Seattle, WA. Our open roles will specify on the careers page and in the job description where the position is eligible for work.
(1)Business Applications with Planned Wages (www.census.gov)
Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.
Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas.
When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto.
Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Gusto considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Gusto is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. We want to see our candidates perform to the best of their ability. If you require a medical or religious accommodation at any time throughout your candidate journey, please fill out this form and a member of our team will get in touch with you.
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