Symmetry is the payroll infrastructure for software & payroll platforms powering the paychecks of over 64 million workers each year. Our fully integrated suite of payroll tax APIs and software tools allows companies to solve tax compliance issues and build applications across the entirety of the payroll process.
About the Role:
Symmetry Software, part of Gusto, is looking for an experienced product manager to own the strategy and execution for new tax products to expand our client base and grow revenue. This 0 to 1 focused role will have broad autonomy to lead discovery, strategy, and execution for new products in payroll tax. As the third member of the Symmetry Product organization, you’ll have a unique opportunity to improve the product development process within a small, fast paced team. This is a builder role and is empowered by Symmetry Software’s Head of Product.
If you are an experienced builder of 0 to 1 payroll products who thrives on making a major business impact at a high-growth company, we would love to hear from you!
About the Team:
At Gusto, the Symmetry team is on a mission to empower the world’s employees by ensuring they get the right taxes the first time. Operating like a “mini startup” within the company, Symmetry is a team driven by deep customer empathy, domain expertise, and a relentless desire to innovate. Our goal is to expand the value we create for the payroll service provider industry by solving more problems that impact over 64 million paychecks in the US each year. If you’re passionate about solving big problems, driving lean experimentation, building 0-to-1 product experiences, and making a tangible impact on the lives of millions, we’d love to have you on our team.
Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:
- Lead an existing cross-functional team working on prototypes of new payroll tax products
- Define the strategy and roadmap for new payroll tax products
- Collaborate with clients, engineers, and other cross-functional partners (including the Symmetry leadership team) to execute the roadmap and make day-to-day prioritization decisions
- Develop a framework and set of metrics to measure the impact you deliver to the business
- Execute hypothesis-driven product experiments, iterate, and ship to customers frequently
- Drive improvements to the Symmetry product development lifecycle
Here’s what we're looking for:
- 5+ years of hands-on product management experience, with 2+ years of success building 0 to 1 products
- Proven track record of building 0 to 1 products with nice to haves in:
- Strong product discovery skills with the ability to navigate a high degree of ambiguity
- Building 0 to 1 products in highly regulated categories
- Experience building personalized products or optimized workflows using Gen AI/ ML
- Builder at heart with strong product sense and POV on how to lead highly effective product development teams. Not afraid to get deep into the details and hands-on coach and lead our EPDD teams
- Display strong strategic thinking skills, capable of evaluating multiple paths, making effective tradeoffs, and articulating a clear and compelling forward plan
- Strong collaboration skills; ability to quickly build trust
- Experience with payroll / payroll tax products is a bonus
Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $144,000/yr - $178,000/yr in Scottsdale & most major metro locations. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Symmetry has a physical office space in Scottsdale. 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).
When approved to work from a location other than the office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.
Working at Symmetry
Being happy at a job goes beyond just doing the work. Where you choose to spend 40 hours a week should be a place that challenges you professionally and aligns with your personal goals and well-being. We truly love what we do, and our customers love what we produce. Our family-owned and -operated business is collaborative, fun, and friendly. We offer the opportunity to work with all kinds of positions across the company, from the CEO to support to sales and everything in between.
Recently, Symmetry became part of Gusto. More than 400,000 businesses use Gusto’s people platform to hire, pay, insure, and support their team–from modern payroll and benefits to distributed work services and international contractor support to expert HR. Together, Symmetry and Gusto are pushing the entire industry forward by helping growing businesses access tools and services that for so long have only been available to larger corporations.
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 with us.
We are 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. Our company considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Our company is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. We want to see our candidates perform to the best of their ability. If you require a medical or religious accommodation at any time throughout your candidate journey, please fill out this form and a member of our team will get in touch with you.
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About our products
Our products make sure millions of paychecks are right, no matter where people live or work in the U.S. We simplify the payroll process with accurate and dependable payroll withholding tax solutions. Our clients include Fortune 500 companies, like Walmart and Southwest Airlines, and leading payroll service providers, including ADP and Paychex. With a 95%+ customer retention rate, our products always have to be top-of-the-line, and so do our employees.
Symmetry is also the company behind the popular website PaycheckCity.com, which helps millions of Americans better understand their paychecks every month.
What We Do
Symmetry Software's mission is to simplify the payroll process with dependable and accurate payroll APIs and tax withholding solutions. At Symmetry, we believe that to provide great payroll, you need powerful technology! We have been building software tools and payroll APIs for award-winning software applications since 1984.
Symmetry's fully integrated suite of payroll tax APIs and software tools allows companies to ensure that employee and employer taxes are correctly calculated and managed. In other words, deliver "the right taxes the first time." With payroll integrations that range from electronic withholding forms to federal, state and local tax lookup tools, we make our customer's processes more regulatory compliant, automated, efficient, and error-free.
While we do not process payroll, we do the most difficult parts of the payroll process, and payroll and HR service providers and large employers license our payroll APIs and software tools to improve their products and compliance. Contact us to see how payroll tax withholding software can make a huge impact when you are using the right tools.
