Salary
💰 $146,000 - $222,000 per year
About the role
- Shape the future of our business by designing new 0–1 financial products that will help workers thrive financially.
- Craft intuitive, high-quality experiences, balancing rapid experimentation with thoughtful design.
- Build brand-new experiences and guide the work of external partners, often charting new paths where none exist.
- Work closely with cross-functional partners across Product, Engineering, and BizDev to influence strategy, drive alignment, and deliver outcomes.
- Partner with cross-functional partners to define a long-term UX vision and how it ladders into Gusto’s broader strategy.
- Shape product strategy, roadmap, team OKRs, and project priorities through a design lens.
- Deepen understanding of customer needs through research, data, and hands-on discovery.
- Design and ship both new and iterative experiences that consistently deliver value and raise the craft bar.
- Facilitate relationships with our external partners, and guide their design teams.
- Contribute to Gusto’s design community by sharing your skills, perspective, and mentorship.
- Champion our design system and platform standards, evolving them through your product work.
Requirements
- 8+ years of Product Design experience, with a track record of leading design direction across teams and product areas.
- You are experienced in designing simple, intuitive solutions in complex or technical domains—ideally in fintech, platforms, or services.
- You partner closely with PM and Eng to shape both roadmaps and system-level decisions, ultimately ensuring better outcomes.
- You have a high bar for craft, 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.
- You care deeply about Gusto’s mission and are passionate about empowering small businesses through world-class financial tools.