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About Gusto

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 Total Rewards philosophy.

About The Role

This role is ideal for a People Partner who thrives in dynamic environments and is energized by the opportunity to influence both strategic and tactical work. As Gusto continues to scale, we're looking for a Senior People Partner to support one of our largest and most complex organizations—Customer Experience (CX). This includes high-volume, distributed, and non-exempt teams where the work is fast-paced and requires operational rigor. In this highly visible role, you'll operate at the intersection of business strategy and people execution, serving as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across CX. You'll lead initiatives in org design, change management, and talent strategy within a fast-paced, high-volume operational environment, while coaching across levels and functions. This role demands agility, systems thinking, and the ability to navigate empathy between strategic perspective, hands‑on impact, and high‑urgency moments. As a strategic partner, you'll collaborate across People functions to design integrated solutions that align with business goals. You'll lead initiatives that elevate performance, scale leadership, and enhance the CX employee experience with minimal oversight. This is a unique opportunity to shape core people strategies within one of Gusto's most critical organizations driving growth, strengthening engagement, and scaling leadership across the company.

About The Team

Gusto's People team is growing and scaling with the company! As our business scales and becomes more complex, and as we add hundreds of new Gusties each year, we need to ensure that our strategies for engagement with our employees are positive, engaging, values‑driven and compliant.

What You'll Do Day‑to‑day

• Act as a strategic advisor and thought partner to business leaders, helping them navigate performance management, team effectiveness, and leadership development.
• Support organizational design and workforce planning initiatives by assessing capabilities, identifying talent gaps, and helping to implement people plans.
• Guide teams through change management efforts, helping them adapt to evolving structures, roles, or processes in a compliant and empathetic way.
• Champion an inclusive and equitable employee experience by advocating for representation, trust, and fairness, particularly across operational and dispersed teams.
• Partner with Invite, Talent Development, Compensation, Benefits, ER, and Legal to implement cohesive people strategies aligned to business goals.
• Use people data and insights to support decision‑making, monitor progress, and iterate on existing practices.
• Navigate complex and sensitive people situations, applying sound judgment and collaboration to reach aligned outcomes.

What We're Looking For

• 7–10 years of progressive HR/People Partner experience, with at least 3–5 years in strategic HRBP roles. Experience supporting high‑volume, operational, or customer‑facing teams (e.g., contact centers, sales, or field ops) is strongly preferred.
• Strategic business partner mindset with the ability to align People strategies to business goals and translate complexity into clear, actionable plans.
• Strong organizational design and change leadership skills, with a proven track record of helping teams navigate growth, restructuring, or role clarity work in dynamic environments.
• Fluency in non‑exempt labor laws, compliance requirements, and employee relations, particularly in distributed and hourly‑heavy teams.
• Experience coaching and influencing senior leaders, providing grounded, practical guidance rooted in trust, business acumen, and empathy.
• Data‑driven approach to workforce planning, performance, and engagement—comfortable using analytics to inform decisions and measure impact.
• Collaborative, systems thinker with experience partnering cross‑functionally with Talent Development, Invite, Compensation, Benefits, DEIB, and ER to implement cohesive, scalable solutions.
• Cultural humility and inclusive leadership mindset, with a history of advocating for equity, representation, and belonging through both strategy and everyday practices.
• Resilient, ethical, and calm under pressure, with a bias toward problem‑solving and delivering impact while maintaining trust and confidentiality.

Our cash compensation amount for this role is $154,045 to $189,989/year in Denver, and $181,275 to $223,573 for San Francisco & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate location, 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.

When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required. This includes non‑office days for hybrid employees.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto.

Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Gusto considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Gusto is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. We want to see our candidates perform to the best of their ability. If you require a medical or religious accommodation at any time throughout your candidate journey, please fill out this form and a member of our team will get in touch with you.

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