# Product Counsel

**Company:** [Gusto](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gusto)
**Location:** Denver, CO, San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Legal
**Salary:** $143k – $207k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** employment law, product counseling, Compliance, regulatory research, AI Tools, litigation, Jira, Notion
**Posted:** 2026-07-29

> Embedded Product Counsel providing legal support and compliance guidance for Gusto's HR Apps portfolio (handbooks, onboarding, leaves, etc.). Requires 5+ years experience with deep employment law expertise, JD, and bar membership; product counseling and AI tool usage preferred.

## Job Description

## 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 (e.g., via JIRA and/or Notion)—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.
- 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.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Product counseling experience is strongly preferred.
- Builder's mindset and a demonstrated ability to quickly develop expertise in new legal domains.

## Compensation
- Cash compensation: $143,405/yr to $176,000/yr in Denver & most major metro locations, and $168,000/yr to $207,000/yr for San Francisco & New York.
- All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs).

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