Staff Recruiter

Gusto, Inc.; California; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Family planning benefits

Gender-affirming care

Mental health resources

Paid vacation

Sabbatical

Free meals

Job summary

Gusto, Inc. in San Francisco is seeking an experienced senior recruiter to lead end-to-end searches across design and technical roles. You will partner with compensation, people partners, executive operations, and finance to keep hires moving and build strong pipelines.

You’ll leverage data, craft tailored outreach, and ensure a high-touch candidate experience while exploring AI-enabled approaches to amplify the team’s impact.

Qualifications

• Recruiting end to end with high standards for craft
• Interpret data to guide hiring decisions and prioritization
• Identify top talent and build ongoing pipelines
• Collaborate with compensation, partners, and finance
• Engage senior leaders with credibility and vision
• Maintain momentum despite challenging searches
• Build local design communities and networks in SF

Responsibilities

• Recruiting end to end for specialized roles and levels
• Talent advisory with market mapping and calibration sessions
• Work cross-functionally with Compensation, People Partners, and Exec Ops
• Guide candidates through a high-touch experience with SLAs
• Leverage AI to improve sourcing, market analysis, and interviews
• Adapt searches across design, product management, data, and other areas

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Data fluency

Sourcing as craft

Cross-functional partnership

Executive presence

Bias for action

Job description

Who you are

• Full-cycle recruiting depth. Typically 8+ years across specialized tech, including meaningful time specializing in design recruiting
• Data fluency. You read, research, and interpret data across multiple tools, turning it into a clear next move in a search and a compelling narrative for hiring partners. It's also how you prioritize a full requisition load and catch bottlenecks before they become problems
• Sourcing as a craft. You know what great talent looks like, across all backgrounds and walks of life, where to find it, and how to assess it, with a knack for spotting bar raisers and building always-on pipelines
• Cross-functional partnership. A proven ability to work across Compensation, People Partners, Executive Ops, and Finance to keep hires moving
• Executive presence. A history of partnering with senior leaders, and the ability to walk into a room, read the audience, and speak with credibility
• Bias for action and resilience. You move things forward and stay steady when a search gets hard

What the job involves

• Recruiting end to end. You run specialized, req-based searches from pre-search strategy through offer acceptance, across levels and craft areas. You uphold a high bar for recruiting craft
• Talent advisory. You run tailored outbound and build bar-raiser pipelines from the start, mapping the market as you go. You turn what you learn into calibration sessions, data-backed recommendations, and clear trade-offs on factors like level, location, and comp, so hiring leaders can make informed decisions
• Work cross-functionally to achieve the goal. You build working relationships across Compensation, People Partners, Executive Operations and Candidate Experience and you know who to pull in and when, so work doesn't sit waiting
• Guide candidates through an experience that resonates. High touch, honest, and caring, held to real SLAs, so people leave feeling seen, heard, and cared for, whether or not they get an offer
• Build with AI, not just use it. You leverage AI to give yourself superpowers across top-of-funnel sourcing, market analysis, and the entire interview process, so your human touch lands where it matters most. You build new AI-enabled approaches, test new tools, and share what works to amplify the whole team’s impact
• Flex into other technical searches when priorities shift. Hiring for design is home base, but you pick up specialized Product Management, Data, or other technical searches when the business needs the coverage
• Build an in-market design community in San Francisco. You bring designers together in person, showing up at and hosting local events, so Gusto is a name the SF design scene knows and your pipeline grows from real relationships, not cold lists

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
• Family care and support, including family planning and fertility benefits
• Gender-affirming care and support
• A variety of mental health resources
• Paid vacation, sick time, bereavement, and holidays, paid leaves, sabbatical, and more
• Free meals and refreshments at the office (conversation and community is an added bonus!)