# Manager - Developer Productivity, AI Tools

**Company**: Gusto
**Location**: Denver, CO
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $240,000-260,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gusto/jobs/8120017?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

We're on a mission to grow the small business economy by handling the hard stuff , payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR , so owners can focus on their craft and customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we support over 500,000 small businesses nationwide.

AI is fundamental to how work gets done at Gusto. You will actively engage with AI tools relevant to your role and grow your fluency as the technology evolves.

**About the Role:** AI Dev Tools builds the platform Gusto engineers use to work with AI. In this role, you'll own that platform end-to-end, making judgment calls on agent autonomy and security posture, negotiating infrastructure vendor contracts, and setting AI-spend guardrails.

**Responsibilities:**

- Own the agentic coding roadmap, setting direction for interactive and autonomous agent modes.

- Make tradeoff calls between review quality, PR merge speed, and per-review inference cost for agentic code review.

- Set the security and risk posture for autonomous coding agents at Gusto.

- Lead and grow a team of senior engineers working across ambiguous, fast-moving problem spaces.

- Be a direct strategic partner to engineering leadership on AI-native software development.

**Requirements:**

- 8+ years of engineering people leadership experience, including managing senior engineers through ambiguous technical problems.

- Direct, hands-on experience with agentic coding tools.

- Experience owning a significant vendor or infrastructure contract.

- Comfort making autonomy/risk tradeoff calls on AI systems.

- Track record of leading through ambiguity across multiple problem domains.

- Strong, direct communication skills.

**Benefits:**

- Competitive base pay

- Benefits

- Equity (RSUs)

**Salary:**

- Targeted at $240,000-260,000 in Denver & most remote locations

- $290,000-305,000 for San Francisco & New York

## Skills

### Required
- agentic coding tools
- AI
- engineering people leadership
- vendor contract management
- autonomy/risk tradeoff calls

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