Senior Product Manager, Gusto

Symmetry

$144-178k

Senior and Expert level
Denver

2-3 days a week in office

Gusto

Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform

Job no longer available

Gusto

Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform

1001+ employees

FintechB2BHRSaaSAccounting

Job no longer available

$144-178k

Senior and Expert level
Denver

2-3 days a week in office

1001+ employees

FintechB2BHRSaaSAccounting

Company mission

To create a world where work empowers a better life.

Role

Who you are

  • If you are an experienced builder of 0 to 1 payroll products who thrives on making a major business impact at a high-growth company, we would love to hear from you!
  • If you’re passionate about solving big problems, driving lean experimentation, building 0-to-1 product experiences, and making a tangible impact on the lives of millions, we’d love to have you on our team
  • 5+ years of hands-on product management experience, with 2+ years of success building 0 to 1 products
  • Proven track record of building 0 to 1 products
  • Builder at heart with strong product sense and POV on how to lead highly effective product development teams. Not afraid to get deep into the details and hands-on coach and lead our EPDD teams
  • Display strong strategic thinking skills, capable of evaluating multiple paths, making effective tradeoffs, and articulating a clear and compelling forward plan
  • Strong collaboration skills; ability to quickly build trust
  • Experience with payroll / payroll tax products is a bonus

Desirable

  • Strong product discovery skills with the ability to navigate a high degree of ambiguity
  • Building 0 to 1 products in highly regulated categories
  • Experience building personalized products or optimized workflows using Gen AI/ ML

What the job involves

  • Symmetry Software, part of Gusto, is looking for an experienced product manager to own the strategy and execution for new tax products to expand our client base and grow revenue
  • This 0 to 1 focused role will have broad autonomy to lead discovery, strategy, and execution for new products in payroll tax. As the third member of the Symmetry Product organization, you’ll have a unique opportunity to improve the product development process within a small, fast paced team
  • This is a builder role and is empowered by Symmetry Software’s Head of Product
  • At Gusto, the Symmetry team is on a mission to empower the world’s employees by ensuring they get the right taxes the first time. Operating like a “mini startup” within the company, Symmetry is a team driven by deep customer empathy, domain expertise, and a relentless desire to innovate
  • Our goal is to expand the value we create for the payroll service provider industry by solving more problems that impact over 64 million paychecks in the US each year
  • Lead an existing cross-functional team working on prototypes of new payroll tax products
  • Define the strategy and roadmap for new payroll tax products
  • Collaborate with clients, engineers, and other cross-functional partners (including the Symmetry leadership team) to execute the roadmap and make day-to-day prioritization decisions
  • Develop a framework and set of metrics to measure the impact you deliver to the business
  • Execute hypothesis-driven product experiments, iterate, and ship to customers frequently
  • Drive improvements to the Symmetry product development lifecycle

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Insights

Top investors

45% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, plus a variety of mental health resources
  • Flexible vacation - Gusties are encouraged to take the time off they need to continue doing great work
  • Fertility treatments, parental leave, pregnancy termination, caregiving, gender-affirming surgery, hormone treatments, transgender-inclusive services, and more
  • If you work at one of our homebases, enjoy food, drinks, and good conversation — on us
  • Celebrate 5 or 10 years at Gusto and take a month off to recharge
  • Take advantage of internet, phone, commuter, and wellness stipends each month, along with a WFH stipend and cash for anniversaries

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

May 2022

$55m

SERIES E

Aug 2021

$175m

SERIES E

Total funding: $706.1m

Our take

For many small businesses, vital administrative tasks such as payroll, taxes, and benefits are manual tasks that take time and energy which many SMB owners don’t have. The three co-founders of Gusto – all coming from small business backgrounds – collaborated on a Fintech company that would handle employee payments, benefits administration, and compliance support specifically for small businesses.

The company may have started slowly, as the founders focused on nailing each individual aspect of Gusto’s operations, but has now skyrocketed to unicorn status with more than 200,000 customers and a multi-billion dollar valuation. In 2021, Gusto began acquiring other companies to strengthen its offering and its position in a competitive market, including two other fintech startups, Ardius and Symmetry.

Through its continued acquisitions and fundraising efforts, the company has carved out a strong position for itself in the space. Although Gusto has found itself impacted by the macroeconomic situation, through the significant effect it has had on its clientele, the company still appears positive for the future after raising funds in 2023 that will see it reach key profitability benchmarks. It continues to consolidate its platform, for example by integrating with OpenComp to grant its users access to the company's Compensation Intelligence Platform.

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