Gusto, Inc.

Gusto, Inc. is a company that specializes in providing innovative software solutions, currently seeking to expand its team with a Senior Software Engineer specializing in product development.

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📍 United States, Canada

💸 174000.0 - 254000.0 USD per year

🔍 Fintech, Payroll, HR SaaS

  • 8-10+ years of experience in content design, UX writing, or content strategy—preferably in a growth or conversion-focused product environment.
  • A strong background in B2B SaaS or multi-product platforms, with proven impact on onboarding, monetization, or cross-sell strategies.
  • Ability to craft clear, concise, and motivating content for complex workflows, across multiple personas and touchpoints.
  • Experience working in rapid-growth environments with tight feedback loops, experimentation, and data-informed iteration.
  • Deep understanding of how to balance brand, voice, and performance goals within messaging.
  • Ability to set up content systems and guidelines from the ground up, and scale them across a fast-moving org.
  • Familiarity with AI-generated content, prompt design, or training large language models is a plus.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to operate independently in ambiguous, high-impact areas.
  • Track record of mentoring and coaching other designers.
  • Experience collaborating with both marketing and product design teams in a shared growth strategy.
  • Comfort supporting multiple teams across a product ecosystem with varied business goals and audiences.
  • Familiarity with subscription-based models, service design, or the Fintech/Payroll/HR space.
  • Drive growth through content by crafting copy that accelerates conversion, activation, and expansion across acquisition, onboarding, and monetization experiences.
  • Build the content foundation by developing guidelines, systems, and principles for scalable, high-quality growth messaging across multiple channels and surfaces.
  • Design with speed and impact by partnering on iterative testing and experimentation, delivering fast, purposeful content that resonates with users and drives results.
  • Bridge product and marketing by working closely with brand and growth marketing teams to ensure a cohesive narrative across marketing campaigns and product surfaces.
  • Lead AI content training efforts by helping shape and refine our approach to AI-generated content inside the product, setting quality standards and guiding content training models.
  • Champion cohesion and clarity by auditing and evolving copy across the customer journey, ensuring messaging consistency across surfaces, entry points, and use cases.
  • Shape the content vision by setting a long-term strategy for how content design supports the success of the Growth team—and Gusto at large.
  • Stay close to customers by grounding design decisions in qualitative research, customer feedback, and ongoing empathy work to ensure solutions solve real-world problems.
  • Align design strategy with business outcomes by ensuring your work supports key company objectives around revenue growth, product adoption, and long-term customer retention.
  • Lead through ambiguity by owning high-impact, cross-product initiatives and guiding content design strategy across multiple teams or domains.
  • Champion a culture of learning by embracing experimentation, continuously evolving our approach, and staying curious about new patterns, behaviors, and technologies.

LeadershipCross-functional Team LeadershipContent managementProduct designCollaborationMentoringWritten communicationMarketingTeam managementCustomer supportCustomer SuccessA/B testing

Posted 8 days ago
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📍 United States, Canada

💸 139000.0 - 221000.0 USD per year

🔍 Software Development

  • 8+ years leading impactful user research projects, ideally with some experience on a platform team
  • Strong mixed-methods research skills—qualitative and quantitative—with experience supporting full customer journeys, from software to service
  • Skilled at selecting the right methods for the problem, with a clear understanding of tradeoffs and impact
  • Strong opinions, loosely held. Comfortable in healthy debate and focused on alignment and progress
  • Thrives in fast-paced, dynamic environments. Proactive and adaptable, with strong stakeholder management skills
  • Passionate about Gusto’s mission and driven to improve the lives of small business owners and employees
  • Experienced in scaling research through democratization—mentoring others and embedding research into everyday team workflows
  • Committed to continuous learning and to growing as a research leader and teammate
  • Build and maintain a strategic research roadmap in partnership with cross-functional leadership and other stakeholders—spanning both generative and evaluative work
  • Work with Data science to ensure we have ‘whys’ for our ‘whats’, be opinionated about how we measure success
  • Proactively identify research opportunities across the Core Experiences org
  • Spot and connect overlapping UXR efforts across Gusto, leveraging existing or ongoing research, and adding value to existing studies
  • Drive generative research that is cross-team, or even cross-org
  • Drive research democratization by creating tools, training, and frameworks that enable others to conduct effective, lightweight evaluative research
  • Address end-to-end customer journey needs, including platform-specific considerations like mobile, to ensure a holistic understanding of user experiences
  • Make research actionable for teams by identifying insights from observations, and how they may influence or impact product decisions
  • Craft a compelling story around UXR insights that is easy to digest for stakeholders and product teams
  • Evaluate emerging methods and tools, and bring new approaches into the research toolkit
  • Participate in team Design Jams and identify where research can influence decisions or should be done in the absence of customer insights
  • Partner with Design Ops to shape scalable research practices and operational foundations
  • Collaborate with Data Science, Marketing, CX, and Sales to uncover patterns in customer behaviors, attitudes, and opportunities

Data AnalysisUser Experience DesignCross-functional Team LeadershipCommunication SkillsCollaborationAgile methodologiesResearchData visualizationStakeholder managementResearch skillsPrototyping

Posted 18 days ago
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📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 104000.0 - 155000.0 USD per year

🔍 SaaS

  • 6+ years of experience in offline and digital media, including hands-on experience negotiating and optimizing campaigns, ideally with a focus on B2B or SaaS.
  • Seeking 3+ years offline experience and 3+ years digital experience for combined total of 6+ years
  • Deep understanding of paid media (all channels) and strong knowledge of the media industry
  • Experience leading media agencies on campaign strategy and execution
  • Experience in optimizing media programs, while driving efficiency and meeting LTV:CAC targets
  • Proven track record of building and executing experimentation plans, including creative testing
  • Experience in strategizing and executing IOs, MNDAs, MSAs, SOWs, etc.
  • Strong working knowledge of Excel, including advanced functions
  • Strategize, execute and optimize best-in-class brand media campaigns, to drive brand awareness and customer acquisition metrics
  • Develop allocation of media resources across all brand media channels (e.g. TV/Video, Radio/Streaming Audio, OOH, Social Media, Display)
  • Own campaigns from end-to-end including planning strategy, tactical execution, vendor management, measurement, and reporting
  • Drive development of target audience, target consumption habits, competitive analysis, KPIs by funnel stage, channel flighting, and learning agenda
  • Ensure consistency in brand communication across brand advertising
  • Manage budget and drive continuous improvements to cost-effectively attract new customers
  • Lead media agency partner in campaign development and execution, and manage agency contracts, scope, and staffing
  • Drive reporting on effectiveness of campaigns and creative, including trafficking creative, managing audiences & creative assets, and building campaign dashboards to ensure programs are running smoothly
  • Work closely with data analytics and growth engineering, to ensure accurate tracking and measurement of activities. In addition, partner with other internal teams, such as Creative, Product Marketing and Legal

Project ManagementGoogle AnalyticsAmplitude AnalyticsTableauREST APINegotiationJSONData visualizationMarketingStrategic thinkingDigital MarketingData analyticsSaaSBudget managementA/B testing

Posted 6 months ago
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📍 Mexico City, Aguascalientes, Jalisco, Sonora, Morelos

🔍 Fintech

  • Required 7+ years of professional software development experience.
  • Passionate about scaling Fintech systems that process billions of dollars.
  • Ability to deliver production-ready code with high autonomy and minimal guidance.
  • Enjoy working with SaaS technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, PostgreSQL, CI/CD, and AWS.
  • Develop best practices for scalable systems and service-oriented applications.
  • Payments and/or risk experience are a plus, but not required.
  • Build products that mitigate financial risk, prevent fraud and globalize faster payments transactions safely.
  • Own end-to-end product development including architecture, implementation, review, testing, and iteration of Gusto’s Fintech product suite.
  • Design highly scalable systems to drive business growth for safe movement of billions of dollars.
  • Build platforms for fraud signal collection and anomaly detection.
  • Drive processor agnostic 3rd party API integration for enhanced payment features.

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