Lead Product Designer

Summary

Join Gusto's Time Tools team as a senior design leader! Partner with product, engineering, and data teams to define product strategy, build customer understanding through research, and design innovative features. You will mentor other designers, champion design system standards, and contribute to Gusto's broader product vision. This role requires extensive experience leading design direction across multiple teams and influencing design/product decisions. Gusto offers competitive compensation, equity-based compensation, and a flexible work environment.

Requirements

• Breadth of impact: This role will be one of Gusto’s most senior design leaders. You should have demonstrated experience leading design direction across multiple teams, and influencing design/product across multiple product areas
• Product acumen: This role will contribute directly to business and product strategy. You should be comfortable working with executive stakeholders, and be able to demonstrate how you’ve shaped business decisions
• Builder mindset: The person in this role will design and ship customer-facing products, not just plans and documents. You should be able to demonstrate how you’ve used design as a tool for communication and persuasion
• High quality bar: This role will be a tireless advocate for our customers’ experience with Gusto. You should be 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: This role has the potential to grow into a player/coach people management role over time, depending on the goals of the successful candidate

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 - $235,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $204,000/yr - $254,000/yr San Francisco, Seattle & New York
• 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)
• When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required