Principal Product Manager, Gusto Solo

Gusto•San Francisco, CA

55d•$179,000 - $263,000

About The Position

Gusto Solo is our newest product offering, designed to help solopreneurs seamlessly pay themselves and manage their businesses - all in one compliant, easy-to-use intelligent platform. As the Principal Product Manager, you'll chart the course for Gusto Solo's next phase of growth. With the MVP now live, this role is about scaling - shaping the vision, deepening product-market fit, and unlocking new, AI-powered opportunities for solopreneurs. You'll collaborate closely with a fully staffed, high-performing cross-functional team that's passionate about serving this customer base. This is a critical role - your work will directly shape one of Gusto's key growth drivers and define what an AI-first customer experience looks like for millions of small business owners.

Requirements

8+ years of hands-on Product Management experience
Proven track record of building 0→1 products and scaling them into their next chapter of high growth.
You're a builder at heart - entrepreneurial, curious, fluent, and stay up to date AI tools that help you move faster and think bigger. You've built or scaled AI-first products (whether at work or on your own) and see AI as a co-builder that expands what's possible.
Experienced in building with modern AI systems - from prompting and fine-tuning to evaluating outputs and shipping reliable, user-facing experiences .
Experience building and scaling products in high growth startups and highly regulated domains (e.g., Fintech, Accounting, Taxes, Payroll) - you understand how to design systems that are both compliant and customer-obsessed.
GTM excellence - you've partnered with Marketing to craft promise→payoff, pricing/packaging, and lifecycle activation strategies that drive adoption and retention.
Exceptional collaboration and storytelling. You build trust quickly, drive alignment across teams, and communicate a compelling vision that inspires action.