The opportunity
At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
What you'll do
Recruiting end to end. You run specialized, sourcing-first searches from: pre-search strategy through offer acceptance and post-hire retro, across levels and craft areas. You uphold a high bar for recruiting craft.
Talent advisory. You run tailored outbound and build bar-raiser pipelines: from the start, mapping the market as you go. You turn what you learn into calibration sessions, data-backed recommendations, and clear trade-offs on factors like level, location, and compensation, so hiring leaders can make informed decisions.
Work the whole system, not just the req. You build working relationships: across compensation, people partners, candidate experience and operations. You know who to pull in and when to drive results.
Guide candidates through an experience that resonates. High touch, honest,: and caring, anchored by steady responsive communication, so people leave feeling seen, heard, and cared for, whether or not they get an offer.
Build with AI, not just use it. You leverage AI to give yourself superpowers: across top-of-funnel sourcing, market analysis, and interview prep, so your human touch lands where it matters most. You build new AI-enabled approaches, test new tools, and share what works to amplify the whole team’s impact.
Flex into other technical searches when priorities shift. Hiring for Design: is home base, but you pick up specialized PM, Data, or other technical searches when the business needs the coverage.
What they're looking for
- Build an in-market design community in San Francisco. You bring designers: together in person, showing up at and hosting local events, so Gusto is a name the SF design scene knows and your pipeline grows from real relationships, not cold lists.
- Full-cycle recruiting depth. Typically 8+ years across specialized tech,: including meaningful time specializing in Design recruiting.
- AI-native recruiting. Hands-on experience using AI across sourcing, market: mapping, and interview prep, and building the agents or SKILLs that carry what works to the whole team.
- Cross-functional partnership. A proven ability to work across various People: teams and business partners to keep hires moving.
