Principal Product Manager, Payments

<div class="content-intro"><p style="line-height: 1.2;"> </p> <hr> <p><strong>About Gusto</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff—like payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR—so owners can focus on their craft and customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we’re proud to support more than 400,000 small businesses across the country, and we’re building a workplace that represents and celebrates the customers we serve. Learn more about our </span><a href="https://gusto.com/about/careers/total-rewards"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Total Rewards philosophy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p></div><p><strong>By the Numbers:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Named <a href="https://gusto.com/about/awards-recognition">#1 best software for small business </a>of 2024 by G2</li> <li>2,700+ employees in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Turkiye and growing </li> <li>Over $500M in annual revenue </li> <li>The SMB market is large (and growing!) with huge opportunities for Gusto to make an incredible impact for SMBs </li> </ul> <p><strong>What Product Management is like at Gusto:</strong></p> <ul> <li>We’re looking for high-autonomy, entrepreneurial Product Managers to come build high-impact solutions for small businesses and their employees. We believe in high-ownership Product Managers who operate like business owners - owning an entire roadmap end to end and shipping product all the way from strategy through to the nitty gritty details (some describe this kind of role as a “GM” type role).</li> <li>Our Product team is lean, which means you’ll have a high degree of impact and ownership. </li> <li>We’re here to serve small and medium businesses. Gusto has a strong mission-driven culture, and we care deeply about lifting up these business owners.</li> </ul> <p><strong>About the Team: </strong></p> <p>Gusto moves hundreds of billions of dollars per year. The Product Manager, Financial Data will be responsible for building technology that helps expand and develop payment rails and payment methods across the globe to enable money movement and solidify our customer ledger and reconciliation platforms for reliability. </p> <p>This role is part of the Payments team at Gusto that ensures that our 400,000+ small and medium businesses and millions of their employees are getting paid on time, every time. You will be developing our payments systems that are foundational to the payment solutions offered by Gusto. You will work closely with a team of Engineers and Designers, to build the roadmap, set strategic priorities, and ensure the successful implementation of our payments stack. </p> <p>We are seeking a highly motivated Product Manager to lead the development and implementation of our financial ledger system and transaction reconciliation process. This critical role will be instrumental in strengthening our internal controls, ensuring data integrity, and maintaining our commitment to financial transparency and regulatory compliance as we continue to scale.</p> <p><strong>Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:</strong><strong><em> </em></strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Ownership</strong>: You will own the roadmap for building a scalable and compliant ledger system for tracking money movement at Gusto.</li> <li><strong>North Star</strong>: Your goal is to build a system that is accurate and compliant that continues to ensure our reputation as a trusted party with customers, regulators, and partners.</li> <li><strong>Collaborate</strong>: You will work closely with our application teams, accounting, engineering, and data team to drive the roadmap.</li> <li><strong>Product Strategy Roadmap:</strong> Define and champion the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the ledger system and transaction reconciliation processes. This includes understanding internal stakeholder needs (Finance, Audit, Legal), regulatory requirements ( ... (truncated, view full listing at source)