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Lead end-to-end UX for Gusto Payroll, define long-term vision, drive AI and automation initiatives, partner cross-functionally, mentor designers, and scale design systems to simplify complex payroll workflows.

Lead the configuration, optimization, and support of Workday HR and payroll solutions across HCM, Payroll, Absence, Time Tracking, Talent, and Compensation. Develop business processes, calculated fields, security roles, reports, dashboards, and testing strategies. Ensure data quality, audit readiness, release management, and system reliability while advising stakeholders, resolving complex issues, mentoring team members, and guiding best practices.

Own full-stack HR Experience features from technical design through deployment and monitoring. Build maintainable frontend, backend, and data-layer solutions; participate in code reviews, planning, reliability improvements, on-call response, and incident management. Partner with product and design, mentor less-tenured engineers, and independently deliver projects with minimal oversight.

Own end-to-end product design for Gusto’s Money, Banking, Retirement, or HR Experiences teams. Responsibilities include framing ambiguous problems, shaping product roadmaps, designing accessible and trustworthy AI-enabled experiences, conducting customer research, evolving design systems, and collaborating with product, engineering, and data teams. The role requires strong craft, systems thinking, judgment around AI uncertainty and human handoffs, and experience shipping products in high-trust or regulated domains.

Lead organization-wide technical initiatives for Gusto’s API and AI agent platform. Design reliable, scalable API contracts and agent-facing tools, write clean Ruby on Rails code, mentor engineers, improve reliability and observability, engage developer customers, and troubleshoot production issues.

Conduct complex enhanced due diligence and KYC investigations for high-risk customers and entities. Research adverse media, sanctions, PEPs, source of wealth and funds, beneficial ownership, and geographic or industry risks. Prepare investigative summaries and SARs, resolve escalated alerts, make risk-based onboarding and exit recommendations, validate AI-generated research, improve investigative workflows, and mentor junior analysts.

Conduct complex fraud investigations involving account takeover, business email compromise, identity theft, payment fraud, and social engineering. Analyze transaction, authentication, communication, and external intelligence data; document investigative narratives; prepare Unusual Activity Referrals; recommend risk-based remediation; support customer and fund recovery efforts; use AI-enabled tools; collaborate with Risk, Compliance, Product, Engineering, and Data Science; and mentor junior analysts.

Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Gusto’s Payroll Platform. Define APIs, shared interfaces, platform boundaries, adoption metrics, and migration strategies. Lead cross-functional work with engineering, design, data, compliance, partners, and internal teams. Build trustworthy payroll controls, audit trails, and evaluations for AI agents, while connecting platform reliability and adoption to customer outcomes.

Build and operate AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu and Spacelift. Lead multi-account architecture migrations, develop reusable infrastructure modules, improve reliability and disaster recovery, support compliance, troubleshoot cloud environments, and automate recurring issues. Partner with engineering teams, strengthen observability and incident response, and participate in an internal infrastructure support on-call rotation. The role also drives multi-quarter platform initiatives with significant autonomy.

Design, build, and ship production LLM-powered features for Gusto Retirement. Implement and integrate LLMs (RAG, agents, prompting, tool loops), make pragmatic architecture decisions, collaborate with product, design, and engineering, write reliable well-tested code, and drive end-to-end execution and iteration.