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Principal Product Manager (Payroll Platform)

Gusto

Skills

Required

  • Product Management
  • APIs
  • data models
  • system design
  • migration

Preferred

  • tool design
  • evaluations
  • AI

Join Gusto, a mission-driven company dedicated to serving small and medium businesses. As the Principal Product Manager for the Payroll Platform, you will have a high degree of impact and ownership, shaping the future of payroll technology. You will define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Payroll Platform, drive adoption, collaborate across teams, and build a unified payroll API. This role requires strong platform judgment, technical fluency, and 8+ years of direct product management experience.

Experience designing for trust in systems where errors have real consequences, including clear controls, auditability and evidence-based expansion of automation

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

Responsibilities

  • Definir la visión, la estrategia y la hoja de ruta para la plataforma de nómina, incluyendo contratos de API y interfaces de entrada de pago comunes.
  • Liderar el trabajo en colaboración con ingeniería, diseño, datos y cumplimiento, y asociarse con los equipos que consumen la plataforma.
  • Construir una API de nómina unificada y liderar las migraciones de usuarios y sistemas existentes hacia ella.
  • Hands-on experience building with LLMs or agents, including tool design and evaluations. You use AI to prototype and ship, and can explain the choices and trade-offs behind your work

Requirements

  • Experience owning a platform, API or developer product that other teams or partners built on, and driving its adoption
  • Strong platform judgment: you can decide what the shared system should and shouldn’t do, and make thoughtful choices about contracts and other decisions that are difficult to reverse
  • Technical fluency in APIs, data models and system design, with experience leading a migration to a new API or interface and credibility with senior engineers
  • 8+ years of direct Product Management experience
  • Experience leading multi-team work across engineering, design and data, and connecting platform metrics to customer outcomes. Payroll, payments, tax or fintech experience is a plus, not required; we’ll teach the domain

Pay

USD 179,000 - 260,000