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Salary: USD 168,000 - 190,000 / annual
Gusto is seeking a Staff Recruiter to lead specialized recruiting for Design and technical roles (Product Management, Data). You will own end-to-end recruiting strategy and execution, serving as a talent advisor to hiring leaders across design disciplines including Product Design, Design Systems, Content Design, UX Research, Service Design, Brand Studio, Creative, and Design Operations.
Day-to-day responsibilities include:
- Running specialized, sourcing-first searches from pre-search strategy through offer acceptance and post-hire retrospectives across levels and craft areas
- Conducting tailored outbound recruiting and building bar-raiser pipelines; mapping the market and turning insights into calibration sessions and data-backed recommendations
- Building working relationships across compensation, people partners, candidate experience, and operations to drive results
- Guiding candidates through a high-touch, honest, and caring interview experience with steady responsive communication
- Leveraging AI to enhance sourcing, market analysis, and interview prep; building AI-enabled approaches and agents/SKILLs to amplify team impact
- Flexing into specialized PM, Data, or other technical searches when business priorities shift
- Building an in-market design community in San Francisco through in-person events and relationship-building
You will work within SpecTech, Gusto's specialized tech recruiting team inside the Invite (talent acquisition) organization. The team hires builders responsible for Gusto's product, particularly Designers, Product Managers, and Data professionals. The team operates as talent advisors who partner closely with hiring leaders on complex searches, work sourcing-first, and are data-driven.
Gusto is a payroll, HR, and benefits platform serving over 500,000 small businesses. The company is headquartered in Denver with offices in San Francisco and New York. Hybrid work is expected at approximately 2-3 days per week in office.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience in specialized tech, with meaningful time specializing in Design recruiting
- Hands-on experience using AI across sourcing, market mapping, and interview prep; ability to build agents or SKILLs that carry best practices to the team
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally across People teams and business partners to keep hires moving
- Executive presence and history of partnering with leaders at all levels
- Data fluency: ability to read, research, and interpret data across multiple tools to inform search strategy and prioritize requisition load
- Sourcing expertise: knowledge of what great talent looks like across all backgrounds, where to find it, how to assess it, with ability to spot bar raisers and build always-on pipelines
- Bias for action and resilience to navigate complex searches
