Senior Staff Product Designer

Summary

Join Gusto as a Senior Staff Product Designer on the Gusto Pro team and lead the experience direction for a product area. You will be involved in the entire product development process, from research and vision creation to iteration and launch. As a cross-functional team leader, you will influence team and project-level strategy. The Gusto Pro team serves accountant customers who use Gusto to support their small business clients. You will work with leadership to define a long-term UX vision, co-lead product strategy and roadmap definition, collaborate with research, data science, and customer support teams, ship new and iterative projects, contribute to Gusto's product design leadership community, and champion design system standards. Gusto offers competitive compensation, equity-based compensation, and benefits.

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, guiding products in complex 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 while shipping iteratively to deliver customer value early and often
• Experience with or curiosity about designing for AI

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 Pro’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, 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 worked in domains related to Accounting like Finance, Payroll, and Benefits

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)