Product Designer

Summary

Join Gusto as a Staff Product Designer and help mature our contractor products. You will be an individual contributor driving foundational shifts to our platform and customer experiences, making major experience changes to established, business-critical workflows. Collaborate with cross-functional partners to define a long-term UX vision, work with UX Research, Data Science, Legal, Compliance, Ops, and Customer Support to understand customer problems, and design and ship new and iterative projects. Contribute to Gusto's product design community, champion design system and platform standards, and help evolve them through your team's work. This role offers a unique opportunity to significantly impact our platform and customer experiences, working with executive stakeholders and shaping business decisions.

Requirements

• 8+ years' Product Design experience
• Breadth of impact: This is an IC design role on a top company priority that touches almost every part of Gusto’s platform. You should have demonstrated experience leading design direction at the product level, and influencing design/product across multiple product areas
• Comfortable with complexity: You’ve led the design of approachable, guided customer experiences in complex domains. Ideally you have direct “one-to-ten” experience maturing existing products
• 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
• 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 platforms, while shipping iteratively to deliver customer value early and often

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to define a long-term UX vision for your area and how it fits into Gusto’s broader vision
• Work with cross-functional partners in UX Research, Data Science, Legal, Compliance, Ops, and Customer Support to understand customer problems and identify key opportunities for the customer and our business
• Design and ship both net-new and iterative projects that deliver consistent value to our customers
• Contribute to Gusto’s product design community by sharing your skills and experience
• Champion our design system and platform standards, and help evolve them through your team’s work

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