Gusto
Product Counsel, Payroll and Fintech
$199K–$273K
San Francisco, CA - Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of combined legal experience.
- Education
- JD degree.
About the job
Provides legal and risk advice for Gusto’s payroll, fintech, tax, payments, and related products, while building scalable product-legal processes and adopting AI review tools.
What you'll do
- Advise product and business teams on regulatory, product, privacy, tax, payments, and partnership issues, including domestic and international products.
- Partner with Commercial on product risk, contract redlines, and negotiations; develop processes that manage legal risk and support product expansion.
- Pilot and recommend AI solutions, and build standards, playbooks, and tools for scalable legal review.
What they ask for
- JD degree and active license to practice law as a member of a State bar.
- Experience supporting development, launches, and scaling of payroll, fintech, tax, and payment products, including regulated domestic and global products.
- Experience working in-house at a technology company and closely with Commercial or Contracts Counsel.
- Experience with AI review tools (GCAI or similar) and building and improving processes.
Nice to have
- Passion for AI and technology as drivers of legal transformation.
- Familiarity with regulated industries such as financial services, payroll/tax SaaS, or healthcare.
Pay
$199,150 - $245,618/year (base salary) in Denver; $221,275 - $272,906/year (base salary) for New York/San Francisco
Tools
GCAI
AI focus
Actively use, test, and pilot AI review tools to improve legal review quality, scale, and speed, with human-in-the-loop controls.
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