Staff Product Designer

Summary

Join Gusto as a Staff Product Designer on the Business Money team and help shape the future of financial tools for small businesses. You will be a strategic partner, leading the end-to-end product design process, from setting a bold vision to shipping high-impact features. You’ll work with cross-functional partners, build understanding of customer needs through research and data, and design both new and iterative projects. Contribute to Gusto’s product design leadership community and champion design system standards. This role reports to the Head of Design for New Revenue Streams and offers a competitive salary range.

Requirements

• 8+ years' Product Design experience
• You’ve led design direction across teams and product areas, shaping both product strategy and design execution in complex, high-leverage spaces
• You’ve designed simple, intuitive experiences in complex or technical domains—ideally in platform or services contexts
• You partner closely with product and engineering to influence both roadmap and systems decisions, translating technical constraints into better customer outcomes
• You maintain a high bar for quality, and stay hands-on to ensure thoughtful, high-impact solutions reach customers
• You think holistically, designing cohesive customer journeys that span digital products and human support touchpoints
• You thrive in ambiguity, lead through action, and are motivated by seeing real customer impact—not just shaping plans or decks
• You bring strong opinions held loosely, engage in constructive debate, and help teams align quickly to move work forward
• You care deeply about Gusto’s mission and are passionate about empowering small businesses through world-class financial tools

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’ benefits 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

• Health insurance
• 401(k)s
• Remote work, flexible hours