Senior Engineering Manager, Symmetry Product Development
About Gusto At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
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Senior Engineering Manager, Symmetry Product Development at Gusto in Scottsdale. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About Gusto At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
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- Aligning teams to focus on new AI native features, and business goals.
- Taking complete functional ownership of your area including vision for both the platform and product in partnership with product managers and stakeholders.
- Initiating innovation, ideas, or actions by providing the initial inspiration needed to get a team started.
- Elevating our engineering practices to be AI-native, guiding adoption of tools, processes, and methodologies that leverage AI to increase velocity, code quality, and operational efficiency across the team.
- Aligning and prioritizing the organization deliverables based on the company needs, working closely with the leadership across functional departments.
- Ensuring products and services are performant, available 24x7x365, resilient, and stable.
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- Masters or Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of engineering leadership experience – managing both people and tech stacks.
- You must have a proven ability to lead changes in organizations. Focus on DevOps and Quality Assurance. Transform these functions from cost centers into essential parts of strategic engineering.
- Prior experience or exposure in AI native product development leveraging AWS services (Bedrock, Agent Core, etc)
- A proven track record and ability to communicate with cross functional peers, communicating technical concepts to business stakeholders, and communicating business objectives to the technical team.
- Demonstrated ability to take ownership on problems and projects and lead them to completion.
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