- Company: Gusto
- Location: San Francisco, CA – Hybrid
- Job type: Full-time
- Salary: $225,000-$250,000 /yr
About the role
Gusto’s Finance team is transforming planning, forecasting, and analysis by placing AI at the center of the workflow. As a Staff FP&A AI Architect, you will design the technical and process architecture that shifts FP&A from manual, spreadsheet-driven cycles to an automated, insight-generating function. This new position sits on the Enterprise AI team and requires a hybrid skill set: deep finance knowledge paired with the ability to design data and AI systems. You will partner closely with the CFO organization, FP&A, Accounting, Data, and Engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Define the multi-year architecture and roadmap for AI-enabled planning, forecasting, and reporting.
- Architect driver-based, ML-assisted forecasting systems for revenue, headcount, opex, and cash.
- Build agentic workflows for variance commentary, flux analysis, scenario modeling, and board narratives.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering to establish governed data models connecting GL, billing, CRM, HRIS, and planning tools.
- Implement controls, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and audit trails that meet SOX, security, and privacy requirements.
- Drive build-vs-buy decisions for planning platforms, LLM providers, and orchestration frameworks.
- Mentor analysts and engineers while creating reusable patterns to drive AI adoption across Finance.
- Measure and report on cycle-time reduction, forecast accuracy, and decision latency.
Requirements
- 10+ years in FP&A, corporate finance, finance systems, data science, or finance engineering.
- 3+ years designing or leading AI/ML or advanced automation for finance.
- Strong FP&A fundamentals including driver-based modeling, operating plans, rolling forecasts, and variance analysis.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, agentic systems, and classical forecasting methods.
- Proficiency in SQL, Python, modern data stacks (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, dbt), and BI tools.
- Experience with enterprise planning platforms and ERP/GL systems.
- Track record of shipping production-grade solutions under SOX, data governance, and security review.
- Exceptional communication skills to explain model behavior to executives and system design to engineers.
Pay and benefits
The target cash compensation for this role in San Francisco is $225,000-$250,000 per year. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed. All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs). Employees based in San Francisco are expected to work from the office on designated days, approximately 2-3 days per week.
How to apply
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