Staff Product Designer

Summary

Join Gusto's HR Apps team as a Staff Product Designer and contribute to the development of products that empower small business owners. You will work collaboratively to define a long-term UX vision, influence product strategy, conduct customer research, and design and ship new and iterative projects. This senior-level role requires a breadth of impact, product acumen, a builder mindset, and a commitment to high-quality design. Gusto offers competitive compensation, equity-based compensation, and benefits. The role may involve a hybrid work model with in-office days in Denver, San Francisco, or New York.

Requirements

• Breadth of impact: Demonstrated experience impacting design direction across multiple teams, and influencing design/product across multiple product areas
• Product acumen: Comfortable presenting to executive stakeholders, and able to demonstrate how you’ve impacted business decisions
• Builder mindset: Able to demonstrate how you’ve used design as a tool for communication and persuasion and shipping customer-facing products
• High quality bar: 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
• Influence the definition of product strategy, roadmap, team OKRs, and project direction
• Build our collective understanding of customers’ HR 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

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages with a strong emphasis on equity based compensation (ownership in Gusto)
• Cash compensation range for this role is $133,000/yr to $182,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $161,000/yr to $219,000/yr in San Francisco, Seattle & New York
• Hybrid work model with in-office days in Denver, San Francisco, or New York (2-3 days per week)