Senior Staff Product Designer

Summary

Join Gusto as the founding designer of a new product line, playing a key role in establishing this new offering. You will lead the entire product development process, setting the long-term vision and roadmap, launching new features, and iterating on existing ones. Collaborate with a cross-functional leadership team and partners across various departments. Responsibilities include defining a long-term UX vision, co-leading product strategy and roadmap definition, working with cross-functional partners, shipping new and iterative projects, contributing to Gusto's product design leadership community, and championing design system standards. The ideal candidate possesses extensive software product design experience, a builder mindset, comfort with complexity, product acumen, and a high-quality bar for design. Gusto offers competitive compensation packages with a strong emphasis on equity-based compensation.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software product design experience, preferably in B2B SaaS
• Builder mindset: You have demonstrated experience as an individual contributor design leader at the product or group level, and can articulate how you’ve set direction and built alignment through your design work
• Comfort with complexity: You’ve led the design of approachable, guided products in complex or highly regulated domains
• 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 screen sizes, while shipping iteratively to deliver customer value early and often

Responsibilities

• Work with the other members of your leadership team 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
• Work with cross-functional partners in UX Research, Data Science, Legal, Compliance, Partnerships, and Customer Support to understand customer problems and identify key opportunities for the customer and our business
• 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 team’s work

Preferred Qualifications

• Bonus if you’ve led the initial launch of a new product offering
• Bonus if you have experience working with 3rd party partner teams to create seamless customer experiences

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 $235,000/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)
• When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required