Gusto, Inc. - Principal Product Manager, Tax Platform

• 8+ years of product management experience, including meaningful ownership of platform teams, strategy and multi-year initiatives that created leverage across multiple teams or product areas. • Demonstrated success operating in complex, multi-product environments with cross-team dependencies and internal platform customers. • Strong system-level thinking and product judgment, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, make hard tradeoffs, and drive clarity without relying on consensus. • Experience evolving or modernizing critical systems over time, balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform health and risk reduction. • Comfort working in regulated or compliance-sensitive domains such as payroll tax, fintech, HR, or legal tech, with a deep appreciation for accuracy, auditability, and customer trust. • Proven ability to partner closely with engineering teams and translate between platform decisions, customer impact, and business outcomes. • A strong POV on building products in the age of AI; experience building AI-driven features is a big bonus • 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 targeted at $180,000 to $224,000/yr in Denver & most major metro locations, and $210,000 to $263,000/yr for San Francisco, New York, & Seattle. 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 Hubs: Toronto, Canada 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. • 2-3 days • 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. This includes non-office days for hybrid employees. • 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.