Manager of Developer Productivity (AI Tools)

Join Gusto as the Manager of Developer Productivity (AI Tools). In this role, you will own the end-to-end platform that Gusto engineers use to work with AI. You will make judgment calls on agent autonomy and security posture, negotiate infrastructure vendor contracts, and set AI-spend guardrails for your team. You will lead and grow a team of senior engineers and be a direct strategic partner to engineering leadership.

• Posséder la plateforme de développement d'IA de Gusto, de la conception du produit à l'infrastructure sous-jacente.
• Définir la feuille de route de la programmation agentique, en fixant la direction pour les modes d'agent interactifs et autonomes.
• Diriger et développer une équipe d'ingénieurs seniors travaillant sur des problèmes complexes et en évolution rapide.

• Experience owning a significant vendor or infrastructure contract from technical requirements through legal and procurement close
• Direct, hands-on experience with agentic coding tools — you are a daily power user of Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or equivalent, not someone who has read about them
• Self-driven mindset, comfortable in Gusto's PE model: your job is removing roadblocks and setting direction, not command-and-control management
• Strong, direct communication — evidenced by briefing senior/executive stakeholders on strategy (not just status) and getting real decisions out of those conversations
• Track record of leading through ambiguity across more than one nominally separate problem domain at once
• 8+ years of engineering people leadership experience, including managing senior engineers through ambiguous, rapidly-changing technical problems (not just well-scoped roadmap execution)
• Comfort making autonomy/risk tradeoff calls on AI systems without a dedicated security team making the call for you — you understand the shape of the risk (e.g., prompt injection, credential exposure, permission bypass) well enough to scope it yourself