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About Gusto

Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 300,000 businesses nationwide.

Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life, and it starts right here at Gusto. That’s why we’re committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy.

About The Role

We are seeking a Product Counsel to join our growing Product Legal team to meet the expanding needs of our company and our customers. In this newly created role, you will be advising and working alongside senior attorneys and compliance team members, and partnering with our product, engineering, business, and marketing teams to support and enhance Gusto’s growing suite of HR products and services designed to help small business owners support happy and healthy teams while navigating the complex employment compliance landscape. This is a great opportunity to grow your career in house, working alongside a team of experienced attorneys and compliance professionals.

About The Team

The Legal Team partners with Gusto Teams to enable innovation, facilitate responsible company growth, accelerate the Gusto roadmap, and provide compliant products to our customers, through solution-focused counsel on legal and business risks. We are passionate about using innovative technology and excellent service to elevate the experience of small business owners and their employees. Each team member is a true owner and makes a tremendous impact every day. If you shine in a fast-paced environment and thrive on the success of a job well done, let’s chat!

Here’s What You’ll Do Day-to-day

• Counsel the product, engineering, and design teams on a range of issues including employment compliance, wage & hour, employee benefits, marketing, and data privacy.
• Research and advise on complex regulatory frameworks to design or enhance innovative and regulated B2B and B2C products and services that support the HR compliance needs of small businesses.
• Contribute to our product suite from brainstorm and ideation through launch as a subject matter expert in employment and HR compliance.
• Support key initiatives across the legal and compliance teams, with company-wide impact.
• Contribute to key initiatives helping to mature our Legal & Compliance team’s functions.

Here’s What We're Looking For

• JD degree and a member of a State bar/active license to practice law.
• 3+ years of experience in a law firm, government, and/or in-house legal department at a technology company (in-house experience preferred but not required); experience must include employment law.
• Experience advising start-ups or providing pragmatic legal guidance related to tech or regulated products.

Here’s what we’d love to see you bring to the table:

• A collaborative approach and demonstrated ability to work well independently under pressure, while contributing to cross-functional teams.
• A builder mindset.
• A willingness to dive in and drive projects independently.
• Experience creatively solving problems, taking into account legal risk and business needs.
• A team player mindset (no job is too big or too small).
• Attention to detail and the ability to follow through in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with data privacy, tax, consumer protection, and/or start-up law.
• SHRM certification or similar professional certification in the HR or employment law space.

Our cash compensation amount for this role is between $137,000 - $171,000/year in Denver, between $161,000 - $199,000/year for New York and San Francisco. 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.

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.

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. If you require assistance in filling out a Gusto job application, please reach out to candidate-accommodations@gusto.com.