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About the Role

We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive attorney to provide legal support for Gusto's HR Apps portfolio. This role focuses on building compliant, scalable HR products for small businesses, serving as the embedded legal partner for products spanning employee handbooks, compliance guidance, hiring, and onboarding. Success requires strong organizational skills, a process-oriented mindset, and the ability to manage a high volume of requests. Attorneys are expected to use AI tools to accelerate research, synthesize insights, and refine content.

Responsibilities

Provide tactical legal support to HR Apps product, engineering, and operations teams for a broad portfolio of HR products, including handbooks, labor law posters, hiring, onboarding, leaves of absence, I-9, regulatory reporting, background checks, learning management, performance, and offboarding.
Review product requirements and identify compliance and regulatory risks early in the development process, during product iteration, and throughout the product lifecycle.
Identify, prioritize, and develop HR Apps-related compliance artifacts to seed Gusto's compliance rules engine and maintain the Legal “Single Source of Truth” compliance hub.
Build processes, resources, and tooling—including AI-driven workflows, self-help checklists, playbooks, and structured frameworks for R&D requests—that drive efficiency, standardize review workflows, and reduce risk across the product development lifecycle.
Research regulatory areas impacting HR Apps offerings; proactively monitor regulatory developments and legislative changes to assess product impact and identify needed updates.
Help resolve day-to-day customer escalations and operational legal questions related to HR Apps products.
Support vendor review and onboarding, partner integrations, and GTM communications, terms drafting, and revision.

Requirements

5+ years of legal experience, ideally including in-house experience at a technology company.
Experience must include a deep understanding of employment law and litigation.
Product counseling experience is strongly preferred.
Candidates who bring a builder's mindset and a demonstrated ability to quickly develop expertise in new legal domains are encouraged to apply even without direct product counseling experience.
Deep experience providing pragmatic legal guidance on employment obligations and building durable compliance resources.
Experience using AI tools to deliver efficiency in your individual work and as essential components in the processes you develop and improve.
Demonstrated ability to build consensus and strong working relationships.
A collaborative, solution-oriented mindset with a focus on progress and teamwork.
An eagerness to dive in, take ownership of projects, and manage work with accountability, while ensuring appropriate visibility and smooth escalation to senior counsel or other decision-makers.
JD degree and membership in a State bar with a current license to practice law.

Skills

Employment law
Product counseling
AI tools
Legal research
Process improvement
Vendor review
Partnership integration
Terms drafting

Location

Denver
San Francisco
New York City
Scottsdale

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

5+ years of legal experience

Education Level

JD degree
Membership in a State bar with a current license to practice law

Salary/Compensations

$143,405/yr to $176,000/yr in Denver & most major metro locations
$168,000/yr to $207,000/yr for San Francisco & New York

Benefits

Competitive base pay
Benefits
Equity (RSUs)

About the Company

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.
With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we support more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide and are building a workplace that reflects the people we serve.
Gusto's Legal & Compliance team partners with product and engineering teams to enable innovation, facilitate responsible company growth, accelerate the Gusto roadmap, and provide compliant products to our customers through solution-focused counsel on legal and business risks.
We are passionate about using groundbreaking technology and excellent service to elevate the experience of small business owners and their employees.
Each team member takes real ownership of their work and makes a meaningful impact every day.

Equal Opportunity

Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. 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). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.
When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required. This includes non-office days for hybrid employees.
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 at Gusto.
Gusto is 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.
Gusto considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
Gusto 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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