Product Designer

Summary

Join Gusto's Pro team as a Staff Product Designer and lead the experience direction for a product area. You'll be involved in the entire product development lifecycle, from research and vision creation to iteration and launch. As a cross-functional leader, you'll influence team and project strategy. Gusto is customer-driven, prioritizing data-informed decisions. This role requires strong UX skills, collaboration, and a passion for creating high-quality experiences. The position offers competitive compensation, including equity, and benefits. Office work is expected 2-3 days a week in select locations.

Requirements

• 8+ years' Product Design experience
• A builder who loves being hands on crafting high quality, high impact solutions and getting them in front of customers
• Experience designing end-to-end customer journeys from software to service
• Strong understanding of common web patterns, foundations, and the ability to discern when to innovate versus adopt existing standards
• Strong opinions loosely held and a willingness to engage in constructive debates about scope and tradeoffs to build alignment and unblock work
• Strong UX craft — you can break down complex experiences and design with consideration for all touchpoints
• Ability to embrace ambiguous situations as opportunities to create
• Passion for Gusto’s mission and the impact we can have on the world

Responsibilities

• Work with cross-functional partners in Product Management, Engineering, and Data Science to understand customer problems, key opportunities in your domain, and define both the long term UX vision and also short term releases that unlock customer value
• Collaborate with our Research, Data Science, and Customer Support teams to build a holistic understanding of customer needs, and make sure they’re shared with your teams to inform their thinking, build empathy, and inform prioritization decisions
• Advocate for great UX, inspiring your teams with a strong point of view about what’s possible and aspirational for your product area
• Hold high standards for the customer experience, including partnering with engineering partners to refine the end customer experience and ensure that what we release is bug free, performant, accessible, and responsive
• Design for how your experience fits into our system and advocate for cohesive experiences through the use of Workbench, our Design System, and other platform capabilities
• Speak clearly to tradeoffs and the “Why” behind design decisions in terms non-designers can understand and participate in
• Provide and seek feedback from other designers to always push the bar for quality
• Collaborate with designers on other teams to develop cohesive solutions for shared problems
• You’ll drive team-wide impact through mentorship, fostering a culture of growth and collaboration

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages with a strong emphasis on equity based compensation (ownership in Gusto)
• Our cash compensation range for this role is $139,000/yr to $199,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $179,000/yr to $221,000/yr in Seattle, San Francisco & 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)