product
Posted Jun 25Senior Product Manager, Symmetry New Tax Products
at Gusto
Scottsdale, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- Identify the highest-leverage investments and decisions across functions that will unlock long-term success, reduce ambiguity, and ensure that Symmetry is building toward a market-winning payroll tax offering.
- Collaborate : Partner across Product, Engineering, Compliance, Legal, CX, Marketing, Sales, and Operations to uncover insights, validate assumptions, and build alignment.
- Accelerate Execution: Step into the highest-priority gaps that stand in the way of success.
- Proven track record of building 0 to 1 products with demonstrable evidence of:
Requirements
- AI is a fundamental part of how work gets done at Gusto. We expect all team members to actively engage with AI tools relevant to their role and grow their fluency as the technology evolves. AI experience
- Our Product team is lean, which means you’ll have a high degree of impact and ownership.
- You’ll pair sharp product judgment with fluency in AI tools — automating what slows teams down and amplifying what makes them creative and high-performing. We’re builders.
- You’ll prototype, automate, design, and ship — using AI as your co-builder to turn problems into durable solutions that deliver customer value with urgency and care.
- Our environment moves fast, and PMs here thrive in ambiguity — blending curiosity, experimentation, and AI-native craft to shape how products (and work itself) are built at Symmetry. About the Role:
- The right person will be an activator who couples strength in execution with a strong sense of ownership to delivering market success.
- You will work directly with a new product development engineering team and focus on AI-powered solutions that redefine our market.
- Deep product discovery skills with the ability to navigate a high degree of ambiguity
- Experience building personalized products or optimized workflows using Gen AI/ ML
Experience
- 6+ years of hands-on product management experience, with 3+ years of success building 0 to 1 products
Benefits
- We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
- All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) — because everyone who helps build Gusto should share in its success.
- We’re here to serve the payroll industry. Our technology impacts over 64 million paychecks in the US each year. We’re driven by deep customer empathy and a relentless desire to innovate.
- We’re looking for a product leader to own the development of new business lines for payroll tax products.
- This 0 to 1 focused role will have broad autonomy to lead discovery, strategy, and execution for new products in payroll tax.
- 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
- Built products at scale with good UX that users love • Bonus points for
- experience with payroll / payroll tax Compensation Details
- Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $143,000/yr to $179,000/yr in Scottsdale & most remote locations, and $184,000/yr to $230,000/yr for San Francisco & New York.
Additional details
- At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy.
- With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we support more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide and are building a workplace that reflects the people we serve.
- Offer amounts are determined by role, level, and location.
- Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy .
- requirements vary by role and will be assessed during the interview process.
- Our fully integrated suite of payroll tax APIs and software tools allows companies to solve tax compliance issues and build applications across the entirety of the payroll process.
- We believe in smaller, empowered teams that move quickly with less overhead.
- Lines between roles are intentionally blurred, and our PMs do whatever it takes to deliver outcomes.
- This role will be expected to deliver durable business outcomes such as new revenue and existing revenue retention.
- This includes spearheading research, defining customer and market positioning, shaping product direction, and identifying the investments and internal capabilities required for success.