
Principal Product Operations Manager, Benefits
- USA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Shape and support product development and its integration into service strategy for existing customers across the product lifecycle, in collaboration with Engineering, Design, Product Management, and Customer Experience teams.
- Understand our product and end-to-end service experience and organizations in intimate detail, including internal and external pain points and feedback. Collaborate to ensure customer support considerations are integrated into broader company decisions.
- Lead and partner on product launches between Product Management and Customer Experience (CX) teams to ensure readiness and deliver insights post-launch to ensure a positive experience for customers and internal teams.
- Provide business insights and recommendations based on quantitative and qualitative data to influence strategy and operational design in both product and service roadmaps.
- Identify and drive cross-functional initiatives that will deliver value for customers and Gusto. Help develop and communicate a clear roadmap for enhancing service capabilities and experiences.
- Hypothesis-driven problem solving to drive our business.
- Contribute to advancing the Product Operations craft at Gusto and uplevel the work of the team.
- 10+ years of relevant work experience at growing startups in operating roles (i.e., biz ops/strategy roles, product operations, project/program management, and/or consulting
- Experience scaling service strategy alongside growing SaaS products, to include incubating products, building and managing product betas, and/or integrating new products into a scalable best-in-class service model
- Highly adaptable and resilient to changes in business needs or requirements. Ability to navigate challenges and make decisions even when information is incomplete.
- Demonstrated self-starter and organized problem-solver. Self-sufficient, resourceful, and bias for action towards continuous improvement
- Experienced with managing a variety of cross-functional stakeholders on complex strategic initiatives, to include influencing senior leaders in Product or Customer Experience orgs
- Strong results-orientation and direct experience in pulling and utilizing data (SQL) to identify critical trends and make/influence critical decisions. Skillful in setting goals based on the desired end state and planning strategies to achieve them.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to effectively communicate complex subjects to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience working in the healthcare or benefits space (PEO, health insurance, 401k etc.)
- Experience with service design and/or service blueprinting