Product Operations Leader

About the Role:

Are you looking for an opportunity to transform a business? Gusto is looking for a strategic, customer-focused leader to leverage customer feedback, service and operations expertise, strategic thinking and influence to develop best in class experience for customers. 

Working with the Product, Engineering, Design and Customer Experience teams, you will be expected to tackle both highly strategic and deeply operational initiatives to deliver value for customers and Gusto. For new product experiences, you will be accountable for crafting and building the service experience for our customers that compliments the software. For existing experiences, you will partner cross functionally to identify areas to improve the service and operations for that part of Gusto’s platform. You’ll be customer-obsessed, business-minded, strategic, detail-oriented, and highly creative.

If this sounds exciting to you, we’d love to connect!

About the Team:

Our Product Operations team in our Transformation org is accountable for building amazing service experiences in partnership with our Product Management and CX orgs. We are experts in Gusto’s software and service models and are highly cross-functional, focused on ensuring our product and service experiences are co-designed and co-developed to deliver best in class customer solutions. We listen to, synthesize, and act on customer and front-line team feedback.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• Shape and support strategic initiatives at the intersection of our Product and Service orgs for existing customers, in collaboration with Engineering, Design, Product Management, and Customer Experience teams.
• Lead and partner on strategic service design with Product Management and Customer Experience (CX) teams to ensure a scalable, world-class experience for customers and internal teams. Influence key decision making and drive/build the desired service experience. 
• Obsess over our customers, their success and experience on Gusto, and advocate for improvements that would improve their experience.  
• Provide business insights and recommendations based on quantitative and qualitative data to influence strategy and operational design in both product and service roadmaps. 
• Identify and drive cross-functional initiatives that will deliver value for customers and Gusto. Help develop and communicate a clear roadmap for enhancing service capabilities and experiences.
• Hypothesis-driven problem solving to drive our business. Leverage expertise in Gusto’s service model and capabilities to propose recommendations and build. 
• Coach and develop a team of Product Operations Managers as they partner with Product Management and Customer Experience (CX) teams to build and scale our product and service offerings.
• Contribute to advancing the transformation of our product, service,  and craft at Gusto and uplevel the work of the team.

Here’s what we're looking for:

• 9+ years of relevant work experience in operating roles at growing startups - biz ops / strategy roles, product operations, project/program management, and/or consulting with “classical” business problem solving training.
• 3+ years leading and developing high-performing teams who operate in a fast-paced, high ambiguity environment.
• Proven experience building and scaling service strategy alongside growing SaaS products, to include incubating new products, running betas, and integrating new product development with a scalable, best-in-class customer service experience.
• Strong results-orientation and direct experience in utilizing data to identify critical trends and make/influence critical decisions. Skillful in setting goals based on the desired end state and planning strategies to achieve them.
• Experienced with managing a variety of cross-functional stakeholders on complex strategic initiatives, to include influencing senior leaders in Product or Customer Experience orgs.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and ability to effectively communicate complex subjects to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels.
• Demonstrated self-starter and organized problem-solver. Self-sufficient, resourceful, and bias for action towards continuous improvement - always looking to improve upon the status quo.
• Highly adaptable and resilient to changes in business needs or requirements. Ability to navigate challenges and make decisions even when information is incomplete.
• Deep empathy and obsession for our small business customers. A deep passion for helping others.
• Nice-to-have: 
  • Experience with service design or service blueprinting.
  • Change management or organizational transformation experience.

Our cash compensation amount for this role is $155,000 to $183,000 in Denver & most major metro locations, and $176,000 to $215,000 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.