Senior Product Designer @ Gusto

About Gusto

Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 300,000 businesses nationwide.

Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life, and it starts right here at Gusto. That’s why we’re committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy.

Product Design at Gusto is made up of over 60 creative, collaborative people who care deeply about our mission to empower small businesses and their employees. We’re a cross-functional bunch focused on Design, Research, Writing, Ops and Front-end Development who are always looking for opportunities to build understanding and empathy for the people who use Gusto. We don’t care a whole lot about swim lanes and we work closely with our partners in Product, Engineering, Data, and Marketing to design, build and ship experiences that make a difference. We are passionate advocates for thoughtful, crafted, and inclusive experiences and we believe great design can make hard things possible, even delightful. Read more about Design at Gusto.

About the opportunities

We have a number of roles open across our teams for Senior Designers including in areas such as Payroll, Benefits, Fintech, and other teams. Here are the key opportunities available:

Payroll: Gusto’s first product is Payroll, and it’s indispensable for our customers. You’ll work on high visibility, high impact experiences that balance complex technical and regulatory considerations. You’ll help make the complicated process of running payroll approachable, easy to use, and stress-free for businesses of all kinds.
Gusto Pro: Accountants use Gusto to support their clients with payroll, taxes, hiring, and more. Gusto Pro helps accountants manage dozens to hundreds of clients on Gusto and grow their firms along the way. You’ll design experiences that make experts and power users even more efficient at scale.
Fintech: The Fintech team empowers our customers to move money safely, securely, and quickly within Gusto. You’ll work on experiences that help reduce risk, and keep our customers and platform safe from fraud and loss. You’ll support developing payment technology that allows the rest of Gusto to innovate and develop products and features that serve all of our customers.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

Work with cross-functional partners in Product Management, Engineering, and Data Science to understand customer problems, key opportunities in your domain, and define both the long term UX vision and also short term releases that unlock customer value
Collaborate with our Research, Data Science, and Customer Support teams to build a holistic understand of customer needs, and make sure they’re shared with your teams to inform their thinking, build empathy, and inform prioritization decisions
Advocate for great UX, inspiring your teams with a strong point of view about what’s possible and aspirational for your product area
Hold high standards for the customer experience, including partnering with engineering partners to refine the end customer experience and ensure that what we release is bug free, performant, accessible, and responsive
Design for how your experience fits into our system and advocate for cohesive experiences through the use of Workbench, our Design System, and other platform capabilities
Speak clearly to tradeoffs and the “Why” behind design decisions in terms non-designers can understand and participate in
Provide and seek feedback from other designers to always push the bar for quality
Collaborate with designers on other teams to develop cohesive solutions for shared problems

Here’s what we're looking for:

5+ years' Product Design experience
A builder who loves being hands on crafting high quality, high impact solutions and getting them in front of customers
Experience designing end-to-end customer journeys from software to service
Strong understanding of common software patterns and the ability to discern when to innovate versus adopt existing standards
Strong opinions loosely held and a willingness to engage in constructive debates about scope and tradeoffs to build alignment and unblock work
Strong UX craft — you can break down complex experiences and design with consideration for all touchpoints
Ability to embrace ambiguous situations as opportunities to create
Passion for Gusto’s mission and the impact we can have on the world

At Gusto, we strive to provide rewards that empower employees to achieve their financial and personal goals. We offer competitive compensation packages with a strong emphasis on equity based compensation (ownership in Gusto). To learn more about Gusto’s compensation philosophy and benefits offerings please view our Total Rewards Approach page.

Our 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 & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto.

Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Gusto considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Gusto is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations@gusto.com.