Senior People (HR) Business Partner

Senior People (HR) Business Partner

This role is ideal for a People Partner who thrives in dynamic environments and is energized by the opportunity to shape strategy and translate it into meaningful, hands-on impact. As Gusto continues to evolve toward an AI-native operating model, we're looking for a Senior People Partner who can design people systems that scale intelligentlycombining empathy, data, and automation to strengthen the employee experience.

You will support groups within the Foundations group, including Finance, Accounting, Business Operations, Legal and Compliance. These distributed teams provide critical services within and across Gusto, leading initiatives focused on business strategy, operational excellence and innovation. In this highly visible role, you'll serve as a strategic advisor, guiding senior leaders through org design, change management, and workforce transformation. You'll use people data and AI-enabled insights to anticipate needs, identify patterns, and co-create scalable solutions that elevate both performance and trust.

As a strategic partner, you'll collaborate across People functions to design integrated, forward-looking solutions that align with business goals. You'll lead initiatives that elevate performance, scale leadership, and enhance the CX employee experience, ensuring Gusto's transformation toward an AI-native future remains grounded in humanity, equity, and purpose.

This is a unique opportunity to help shape the next generation of People practices within one of Gusto's most critical organizationsdriving growth, strengthening engagement, and scaling leadership at the intersection of technology and human connection.

Gusto's People Team is growing and scaling with the company through integrated, intelligent systems that keep humans in the driver's seat of our AI-accelerated future.

We're focused on creating equitable outcomes at scalepairing insight and innovation to ensure technology amplifies fairness, belonging, and impact.

Together, we partner across the business to make data-driven, people-centered decisions that align strategy with the needs of every Gustie, driving a workplace that is positive, engaging, and values-driven.

Here's what you'll do day-to-day :

• Act as a strategic advisor and thought partner to business leaders, helping them navigate performance, scaling, and leadership effectiveness in an AI-native, data-rich environment.
• Lead org design and workforce planning using both human insight and AI-driven analytics to forecast capability needs, identify talent gaps, and build future-ready teams.
• Guide teams through change management and digital transformation effortsensuring clarity, inclusion, and engagement as automation reshapes workflows.
• Champion an inclusive and equitable employee experience, embedding fairness and transparency into tech-enabled systems and processes.
• Partner across Invite, Talent Development, Compensation, Benefits, ER, and Legal to design integrated, AI-informed people strategies aligned to business goals.
• Translate data and insights into actionable recommendations, using people analytics and predictive tools to measure impact and iterate on programs.
• Navigate complex people situations with judgment, empathy, and ethical integritybalancing speed and compliance with trust and care.

Here's what we're looking for :

Resilient, ethical, and calm under pressure, with a bias toward problem-solving, learning, and continuous improvement.

Compensation : Our cash compensation amount for this role is $154,045 to $189,989 / year in Denver, and $181,275 to $223,573 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.

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 application procedures.