Gusto · 2 days ago
Software Engineering Manager, Growth
Denver, CO
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$163K/yr - $204K/yr
8+ years expGusto is on a mission to grow the small business economy by providing essential services like payroll and HR. The Software Engineering Manager, Growth will lead engineering efforts to embed intelligence across Gusto's Growth platform, focusing on data-driven and adaptive systems to enhance revenue growth.
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Responsibilities
Build and foster an inclusive, collaborative, and impact-oriented culture
Conduct regular 1:1s with your team members to support their continued growth and learning
Collaborate with our product management and design teams to define, iterate, and execute on initiatives contributing to Growth’s roadmap to drive revenue growth
Partner with Product, Design, Data and others within and outside your team
Help build and manage team processes and create a culture that enables the team to do its best work
Provide and receive mentorship and peer support
Champion AI-native patterns in Growth systems — designing for learning loops, feedback-driven iteration, and safe model usage in customer-facing contexts
Help establish best practices for experimentation, evaluation, and observability in AI-augmented Growth experiences
Partner with cross-functional teams to tackle complex and ambiguous problems, translating them into engineering solutions that drive our customer acquisition and ACV expansion platform forward
Collaborate with AI platform and data science teams to integrate model-driven insights into Growth workflows — such as lead scoring, onboarding personalization, intelligent upsell recommendations, and AI/ML-driven comms platform
Qualification
Required
8+ years of professional software development experience, preferably in B2B software and/or growth engineering
At least 2 years empowering Product or Growth engineering teams
Preference for experience building and maintaining onboarding funnels, checkout flows, upsell/cross-sell systems or other complex multi-step workflows
Experience managing and mentoring a software development team
Ability to work iteratively with data and experimentation driven development, and a record of driving impact reflected in metrics and customer sentiment
Experience working cross functionally with product, design, data, sales, support, and marketing
Curiosity and ability to operate in an AI-native environment — integrating intelligence, automation, and experimentation into how we grow the business
Experience in highly cross-functional environments for highly complex products
Experience in scaling Engineering organizations
Preferred
Experience leading a team on designing or implementing product experiences incorporating ML and AI — from recommendations to intelligent onboarding or personalization systems
Experience in experimentation and user experience optimization
Experience working closely with Revenue teams
Benefits
Health Insurance
401(k)s
Company
Gusto
Gusto is an HR and payroll platform that simplifies complex tasks, empowering businesses to focus on what matters most.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$746.1MKey Investors
Friends & Family CapitalT. Rowe PriceAkkadian Ventures
2023-01-28Series Unknown
2022-05-12Series E· $55M
2021-08-10Series E· $175M
Leadership Team
Josh Reeves
Head of Gusto (CEO) and Co-Founder. Building Gusto for the Long Term.
Edward Kim
Co-founder and Head of Technology
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