Senior Engineering Manager, Builder Enablement - Front End

Gusto is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Builder Enablement to lead the team that defines how every builder at Gusto — engineer, designer, PM, and AI agent — ships high-quality products. The team owns Gusto's design system (Workbench) and AI tooling that teaches humans and LLMs how to use it: MCP servers, agent skills, prototyping sandboxes, eval systems, and prompts. This is a highly visible, org-shaping role with scope rippling across every product surface at Gusto. Salary: $223,000–$278,000 for SF/Seattle/NY.

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 5 years leading engineering teams. • A track record of empowering senior engineers and tech leads. • Strong product sense and ability to work closely with Design and Product partners to shape strategy. • Hands-on fluency with modern AI developer tooling (MCP servers, agent skills, Claude Code/Cursor, prompt engineering, evals). • Experience with frontend platforms, design systems, or horizontal/shared infrastructure; comfort with TypeScript, React, and modern frontend ecosystems. • Experiment-driven leadership style: comfortable framing hypotheses, scoping small tests, and making decisions based on evidence. • Strong written and verbal communication, comfortable being visible and making your team's work legible to non-technical audiences.