Gusto · 6 hours ago
Principal Product Manager, Tax Platform
Denver, CO
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$180K/yr - $224K/yr
8+ years expGusto is on a mission to grow the small business economy by providing essential services like payroll and HR. They are seeking a Principal Product Manager for their Tax Platform team, responsible for owning the strategy and execution of foundational tax systems that support over 400,000 small businesses.
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Responsibilities
Ownership: Own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for foundational Tax Platform systems, with responsibility for shaping platform direction across multiple quarters and years
North Star: Define and evolve a clear Tax Platform strategy that ladders into Gusto’s broader Tax strategy, bringing clarity to ambiguous problem spaces and guiding day-to-day decisions around prioritization, sequencing, and tradeoffs
Collaborate & Evangelize: Partner closely with Engineering, Compliance, Legal, CX, Data Science, and Product teams to align priorities, unblock dependencies, and drive adoption of shared platform capabilities. Translate between platform work and customer and business outcomes to help engineering teams understand impact and help stakeholders understand the value and tradeoffs of platform investments
Customer Impact: Tie platform initiatives to customer outcomes by using data, domain expertise, and partner input to prioritize work that improves accuracy, timeliness, trust, and operational reliability
Execution Excellence: Advocate for durable, correct, and scalable solutions while maintaining momentum through incremental delivery, thoughtful sequencing, and clear success metrics
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
A strong POV on building products in the age of AI; experience building AI-driven features is a big bonus
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
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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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