Product Counsel (HR Apps/Employment Law)

Join Gusto, a leading HR technology company, as a Product Counsel specializing in HR Apps and Employment Law. In this role, you will provide day-to-day legal support to our HR Apps product and engineering teams, focusing on building compliance products that make a real difference for small businesses and their employees. You will be responsible for reviewing product requirements, identifying compliance risks, developing compliance artifacts, and researching regulatory areas impacting HR Apps offerings. This is a unique opportunity to use your legal expertise to help build scalable HR products for small businesses.

• Provide tactical legal support to HR Apps product, engineering, and operations teams for a broad portfolio of HR products, including handbooks, labor law posters, hiring, onboarding, leaves of absence, I-9, regulatory reporting, background checks, learning management, performance, and offboarding.
• Review product requirements and identify compliance and regulatory risks early in the development process, during product iteration, and throughout the product lifecycle.
• Identify, prioritize, and develop HR Apps-related compliance artifacts to seed Gusto's compliance rules engine and maintain the Legal “Single Source of Truth” compliance hub.
• Deep experience providing pragmatic legal guidance on employment obligations and building durable compliance resources
• An eagerness to dive in, take ownership of projects, and manage work with accountability, while ensuring appropriate visibility and smooth escalation to senior counsel or other decision-makers
• Experience using AI tools to deliver efficiency in your individual work and as essential components in the processes you develop and improve
• 5+ years of legal experience, ideally including in-house experience at a technology company. Experience must include a deep understanding of employment law and litigation. Product counseling experience is strongly preferred—but candidates who bring a builder's mindset and a demonstrated ability to quickly develop expertise in new legal domains are encouraged to apply even without direct product counseling experience
• Demonstrated ability to build consensus and strong working relationships
• A collaborative, solution-oriented mindset with a focus on progress and teamwork (no job is too big or too small)
• JD degree and membership in a State bar with a current license to practice law
• AI is a fundamental part of how work gets done at Gusto. We expect all team members to actively engage with AI tools relevant to their role and grow their fluency as the technology evolves. AI experience requirements vary by role and will be assessed during the interview process