Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Gusto provides payroll, health insurance, 401(k), and HR solutions to help small businesses grow. Gusto is seeking a senior workforce management planner to design and scale AI-powered forecasting and capacity planning systems, build WFM data pipelines and governance frameworks, and guide AI adoption across forecasting, scheduling, and intraday operations.

Responsibilities

• Use AI to identify demand shifts, seasonal patterns, and emerging workforce risks before they impact operations
• Connect AI-generated insights to operational decisions across staffing, scheduling, and capacity planning
• Develop and maintain capacity plans, providing recommendations on hiring, staffing, and efficiency improvements for our CX teams
• Participate in an on-call PagerDuty rotation to monitor and respond to real-time alerts — including system outages, service level breaches, and routing failures — ensuring rapid escalation and resolution during off-hours incidents
• Design scalable AI-enabled WFM workflows across forecasting, scheduling, and intraday functions
• Build and maintain AI-powered WFM data pipelines that integrate multiple data sources (volume, AHT, shrinkage) to enable predictive and near-real-time insights
• Continuously monitor and adjust forecasts using AI-driven models and traditional methods as demand evolves
• Design governance frameworks for AI-enabled WFM workflows, including monitoring, validation, and escalation processes
• Partner with Legal, Data, and Product to ensure AI implementations meet organizational standards and compliance requirements
• Lead cross-functional AI initiatives for WFM, influencing how teams across the organization use AI in planning and operations
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings on forecasting, capacity planning, and AI adoption progress as member and facilitator aligned to the Operational Rhythm Meeting structure
• Identify potential risks to workforce capacity and proactively devise contingency plans
• Collaborate with stakeholders to implement risk mitigation strategies
• Evaluate and recommend process enhancements to boost efficiency and capacity utilization
• Analyze data to identify gaps and opportunities within the CX organization

Skills

• **AI fluency required:** Demonstrated ability to adopt and operationalize AI tools in a WFM or contact center context; designing or implementing AI/ML-powered forecasting, automation, or analytics workflows. Gusto is an AI-forward company and active AI use is expected daily
• Strong analytical and data visualization skills; demonstrated experience building dashboards and interactive reporting tools to surface WFM insights for operations and leadership; demonstrated analytical skills in volume forecasting, employee workloads, and staffing optimization
• Excellent judgment, communication, and problem-solving skills — able to translate complex data into clear, actionable recommendations for stakeholders at all levels
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years in a capacity planning and forecasting role
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence planning and operations practices across teams
• Experience building or managing data pipelines that integrate multiple WFM data sources (volume, AHT, shrinkage, scheduling)
• Proficiency in data modeling, statistical analysis, and data visualization
• Experience in a high-volume, fast-paced contact center environment
• Familiarity with AI governance concepts including model monitoring, validation, and responsible AI practices
• Familiarity with COPC, ICMI, and/or SWPP standards is a plus
• Experience with BPOs

Benefits

• All full-time employees receive benefits
• All full-time employees receive equity (RSUs)

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