# Principal Product Manager, Payroll Platform

**Company**: Gusto
**Location**: Denver, CO
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $179,000/yr to $220,000/yr in Denver & most major metro locations, and $210,000/yr to $260,000/yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy.

As Principal Product Manager for Payroll Platform, you'll build the foundation for a future where payroll is simpler, more connected, and more useful than ever.

**Responsibilities**

- Define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Payroll Platform

- Drive adoption by teams, partners, and agents building on payroll

- Collaborate with engineering, design, data, and compliance teams

- Build a unified payroll API and lead migrations of existing users and systems

- Define payroll actions, controls, audit trails, and evaluations for AI agents

**Requirements**

- 8+ years of direct Product Management experience

- Experience owning a platform, API, or developer product

- Technical fluency in APIs, data models, and system design

- Strong platform judgment and experience designing for trust

- Hands-on experience building with LLMs or agents

- Experience leading multi-team work across engineering, design, and data

**Nice to Have**

- Payroll, payments, tax, or fintech experience

**What We Offer**

- Competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs)

- Cash compensation: $179,000 - $220,000/yr in Denver & most major metro locations, and $210,000 - $260,000/yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York

- Physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City

**About Us**

- Named #1 best software for small business of 2024 by G2

- 2,700+ employees in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Turkiye

- Over $500M in annual revenue

## Skills

### Required
- APIs
- data models
- system design
- platform judgment
- trust design
- LLMs or agents
- multi-team collaboration

### Nice to have
- payroll
- payments
- tax
- fintech

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