Lead Product Designer

Summary

Join Gusto's Time Tools team as a senior design leader, partnering with product, engineering, and data teams. You will define product strategy, lead research, design and launch new features, and mentor other designers. This role requires extensive experience leading design direction across multiple teams and influencing design/product across multiple product areas. You'll be a key contributor to the entire product development process, from initial research and concept development to refining UI and launching new features. Gusto offers competitive compensation, equity-based compensation, and benefits. The role may evolve into a player/coach people management role.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience leading design direction across multiple teams, and influencing design/product across multiple product areas
• Comfortable working with executive stakeholders, and be able to demonstrate how you’ve shaped business decisions
• Able to demonstrate how you’ve used design as a tool for communication and persuasion
• Able to demonstrate how you’ve maintained design quality and accessibility across screen sizes, while shipping iteratively to deliver customer value early and often

Responsibilities

• Work with your cross-functional partners to define a long-term UX vision for your product area and how it fits into Gusto’s broader vision
• Co-lead the definition of product strategy, roadmap, team OKRs, and project direction
• Build our collective understanding of customers’ needs through research and data
• Design and ship both net-new and iterative projects that deliver consistent value to our customers
• Contribute to Gusto’s product design leadership community by sharing your skills and experience
• Champion our design system and platform standards, and help evolve them through your product work
• Mentor and coach other designers on the team to deliver high-quality experiences

Preferred Qualifications

Prior management experience

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages with a strong emphasis on equity based compensation (ownership in Gusto)
• Our cash compensation range for this role is $174,000/yr to $216,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $204,000/yr to $254,000/yr in San Francisco, Seattle & New York
• Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role)