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
[https://gusto.com/about/careers/total-rewards].
About the Role:
Gusto is looking for highly skilled and motivated Data Scientists with extensive
experience (10+ years) applying their expertise in a business environment. As a
Principal Data Scientist, you will play a crucial role in leveraging
experimentation, statistical inference, and causal analysis to drive strategic
decision making that contributes to the overall success of our organization. The
ideal candidate is a trusted data storyteller with strong statistical and coding
skills, and a passion for applying these skills to help small businesses thrive.
In this role you will work closely with our Product, Engineering, Design,
Finance, and other Data teams to become an expert in the data for your domain,
define and track metrics that help us understand our business performance, and
dive deep into our Payroll, Benefits, and HR data to deliver insights and answer
questions. You’ll also integrate AI-assisted practices to accelerate analysis,
enhance rigor, and expand the reach of insights across Gusto. We have multiple
senior roles open, each focused on a different area of our business
Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:
- Strategic Leadership: Shape the analytical strategy for a major product or
business area. Identify high-leverage opportunities, set long-term
measurement and experimentation direction, and align executive stakeholders
around data-driven priorities.
- Execution Excellence: Drive and execute on org-level analytical roadmaps that
shape company strategy. Achieve alignment and ensure consistent analytical
rigor and metric integrity across product domains.
- Scaled Impact: In addition to being an expert in statistical methods and
driving impact through execution, you will drive frameworks for
experimentation, causal analysis, and metric design that scale across
multiple teams and influence org-wide decision quality.
- Thought Partnership: Serve as a trusted advisor to senior product,
engineering, and business leaders. Anticipate emerging questions, proactively
define success measures, and advocate for data-informed strategy across the
org.
- Analytical Innovation: Push the boundaries of statistical modeling,
experimentation, and AI-assisted analytics. Design methods and tools that
expand how Gusto leverages data to drive customer and business impact.
- Mentorship: Mentor and coach more junior data scientists, raising the bar for
analytical thinking and storytelling.
Here’s what we're looking for:
- 10+ years of experience in Data Science at a product-focused software
company.
- Strong SQL and Python skills.
- Proven ability to apply statistical methods, causal inference, and
experimental design to real business problems.
- Experience developing Machine Learning models is a plus.
- Excellent communication skills, with a track record of influencing
cross-functional stakeholders and leadership.
- Demonstrated experience leading large, technically complex projects with
clear business impact.
- A proactive, resilient problem-solver who independently structures ambiguous
problems into actionable insights.
- Passion for mentoring others and raising the bar for data science craft
across the team.
- BS/MS/PhD in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Computer Science,
Applied Math, etc.) or equivalent industry experience.
Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $170,000/yr -
$210,000/yr in Denver, $185,000/yr - $225,000/yr in Los Angeles, $200,000/yr -
$240,000 for San Francisco, Seattle and New York. Final offer amounts are
determined by multiple factors including candidate 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. 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
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