# Manager - Developer Productivity, AI Tools at Gusto

- Company: Gusto
- What the company does: Backed by General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://www.gusto.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Denver, CO - Hybrid; New York, NY - Hybrid; San Francisco, CA - Hybrid
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $240K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gusto/jobs/8120017
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/gusto-manager-developer-productivity-ai-tools/

## About the role

AI Dev Tools builds the platform Gusto engineers use to work with AI, not just alongside it: agentic coding environments (local and cloud), automated AI code review, and the CI/security infrastructure underneath both. In this role, you'll own that platform end-to-end from the product bet (what should an agent be trusted to do autonomously, and when) to the infrastructure underneath it (CI systems, sandboxing, vendor contracts) to the team building it.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of engineering people leadership experience, including managing senior engineers through ambiguous, rapidly-changing technical problems (not just well-scoped roadmap execution)
- 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
- Experience owning a significant vendor or infrastructure contract from technical requirements through legal and procurement close
- Track record of leading through ambiguity across more than one nominally separate problem domain at once
- Strong, direct communication — evidenced by briefing senior/executive stakeholders on strategy (not just status) and getting real decisions out of those conversations
- Self-driven mindset, comfortable in Gusto's PE model: your job is removing roadblocks and setting direction, not command-and-control management

Tags: Engineering