Senior Communications Manager, Gusto
$115-141k
2-5 days a week in office
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
Job no longer available
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$115-141k
2-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where work empowers a better life.
Role
Who you are
- Approximately 10 years of in-house or agency experience in corporate communications or public relations
- You always have your finger on the pulse of trends today, and you’re constantly searching and thinking about shaping the trends of tomorrow
- Experience building or managing research/data comms programs or helping to guide research-based thought leadership
- Have a special knack for concepting and telling stories in a clear, intriguing, and effective way across multiple mediums. Ability to connect different sets of internal and external data to external trends in a way that is easily understable and compelling for multiple audiences. And you’re able to see what’s not necessarily obvious to everyone else
- You’re a trusted counselor and advisor to stakeholders across the company
- Resourceful, highly curious, and relentless in pursuit of bringing compelling stories to life
- Have a special knack for concepting and telling stories in a clear, intriguing, and effective way across multiple mediums. And you’re able to see what’s not necessarily obvious to everyone else
- Ability to build and own complex programs that involve multiple business partners in a high-growth organization
- You prioritize building scalable programs and measuring both program and business impact
What the job involves
- Be a key member of our Integrated Communications team who supports building our brand externally
- Help build Gusto’s economic research agenda in partnership with Gusto’s Economics and Policy teams. Identify key trends, externally and internally through Gusto platform data and customer stories
- Establish and maintain relationships with journalists and other influencers, including economic, labor, broadcast, and mainstream culture and workplace-focused press. business, technology, and culture-focused press
- Help build corporate and product-thought leadership platforms. Partner with our Product Comms team to use data to establish thought leadership and garner opportunities to highlight Gusto’s product features and services
- Support company-wide communications processes and manage company communications channels
- Partner closely across our Integrated Communications team to ensure alignment of messaging
- Works closely with Gusto leaders to support key company initiatives
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
For many small businesses, vital administrative tasks such as payroll, taxes, and benefits are manual tasks that take time and energy which many SMB owners don’t have. The three co-founders of Gusto – all coming from small business backgrounds – collaborated on a Fintech company that would handle employee payments, benefits administration, and compliance support specifically for small businesses.
The company may have started slowly, as the founders focused on nailing each individual aspect of Gusto’s operations, but has now skyrocketed to unicorn status with more than 200,000 customers and a multi-billion dollar valuation. In 2021, Gusto began acquiring other companies to strengthen its offering and its position in a competitive market, including two other fintech startups, Ardius and Symmetry.
Through its continued acquisitions and fundraising efforts, the company has carved out a strong position for itself in the space. Although Gusto has found itself impacted by the macroeconomic situation, through the significant effect it has had on its clientele, the company still appears positive for the future after raising funds in 2023 that will see it reach key profitability benchmarks. It continues to consolidate its platform, for example by integrating with OpenComp to grant its users access to the company's Compensation Intelligence Platform.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2022
$55m
SERIES E
Aug 2021
$175m
SERIES E
Total funding: $706.1m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, plus a variety of mental health resources
- Flexible vacation - Gusties are encouraged to take the time off they need to continue doing great work
- Fertility treatments, parental leave, pregnancy termination, caregiving, gender-affirming surgery, hormone treatments, transgender-inclusive services, and more
- If you work at one of our homebases, enjoy food, drinks, and good conversation — on us
- Celebrate 5 or 10 years at Gusto and take a month off to recharge
- Take advantage of internet, phone, commuter, and wellness stipends each month, along with a WFH stipend and cash for anniversaries
Company values
- Embody a service mindset - Never stop advocating for the needs of others
- Dream big, then make it real - Be ambitious. Show and do, rather than tell and talk
- Be proud of the how - Ensure deep integrity in everything you do
- Embrace an ownership mentality - Take initiative to leave things better than you found them
- Debate then commit - Share openly, question respectfully, and once a decision is made, commit fully
Company HQ
Central Waterfront, San Francisco, CA
Founders
Joshua Reeves
(CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford and went onto co-found Gusto in 2011.
Tomer London
(CPO)Has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. Was a Researcher at Intel, and then interned at Bump Technologies. Co-founded Vizmo, a mobile self-service technologies company, in 2008. Co-founded Gusto in 2011.
Edward Kim
(Head of Engineering)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford. Was Senior Project Engineer at Volkswagen of America Electronics Research Lab and then co-founded Picwing, a printed photos company, in 2008. Co-founded Gusto in 2011.
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