Senior Product Manager - Symmetry

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About the Role:

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.

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!

About the Team:

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. 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.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• 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

Here’s what we're looking for:

• 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 with nice to haves in:
• 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
• 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

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $144,000/yr - $178,000/yr in Scottsdale & most major metro locations. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.

Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas. 

When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.

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