Staff Data Scientist - Gusto Retirement

About Gusto

At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff—like payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR—so owners can focus on their craft and customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we’re proud to support more than 400,000 small businesses across the country, and we’re building a workplace that represents and celebrates the customers we serve. Learn more about our

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About The Role

As a Senior/Staff Data Scientist supporting Gusto Retirement, you will play a crucial role in leveraging experimentation, statistical inference, and causal analysis to drive strategic decision making that contributes to the overall success of our organization. The ideal candidate is a trusted data storyteller with strong statistical and coding skills, and a passion for applying these skills to support the retirement financial platform product for Gusto’s small business customers.

In this role, you will work closely with our cross-functional teams to become an expert in the data for your domain, define and track metrics that help us understand our business performance, and dive deep into our Gusto Retirement data to deliver insights and answer questions. You’ll also integrate AI-assisted practices to accelerate analysis, enhance rigor, and expand the reach of insights across Gusto.

Here’s What You’ll Do Day-to-day

Lead

Own ambiguous problems with an AI-native approach, design analysis frameworks, and introduce structure that scales across multiple product domains.

Strategic Partnership

Collaborate with product managers, engineering leads, designers, and operations teams to proactively identify opportunities, align on strategy, and guide data-informed decision-making.

Analytical Rigor

Apply advanced statistical methods, causal inference, and experimentation to surface drivers of product performance, separating signal from noise.

Experimentation & Measurement

Design, analyze, and interpret experiments; leverage AI tools and workflows to ensure insights highlight trade-offs and limitations based on sample size and data quality.

Execution

Deliver multiple high-impact projects, balancing trade-offs to maximize business value, and maintain clear expectations of deliverables and timelines.

Communication

Present complex findings in a structured, compelling way to technical and non-technical stakeholders, fostering a data-informed mindset across the company.

Operate With Agility

Drive progress with an adaptive and creative mindset to navigate and succeed in a dynamic environment where technologies and project scopes are constantly evolving.

Scaling The Craft

Mentor other data practitioners, uplevel team best practices in experimentation, statistical modeling, and metric interpretation. Drive improvements in data quality, rigor, and adoption of better data capabilities across the org.

Here’s What We're Looking For

5 – 10 years of experience in Data Science at a product-focused software company

Tactical SQL skills and experience with Python

Must be comfortable learning new tools and pivoting quickly. Demonstrated comfort with ambiguity and an adaptive mindset in a constantly changing work environment

Tangible experience integrating efficient AI-assisted practices to accelerate analysis, enhance rigor, and expand the reach of insights

Proven ability to apply statistical methods, causal inference, and A/B testing experimental design to real business problems

Excellent communication skills, with a track record of influencing cross-functional stakeholders and leadership

Demonstrated experience leading large, technically complex projects with clear business impact

A proactive, resilient problem-solver who independently structures ambiguous problems into actionable insights

Passion for mentoring others and raising the bar for data science craft across the team

Our cash compensation amount for this role is $135,320 to $189,900 annually in Denver & most major metro locations, and $163,830 to $202,050 annually for San Francisco & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate location, experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

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.

Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas.

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

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