Senior Staff Product Designer, Gusto Pro

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 400,000 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. 

About the Role:

As a Senior Staff Product Designer on the Gusto Pro team, you’ll lead the experience direction for a product area within Gusto Pro. You’ll be involved in the entire product development process from research to creating a vision to iterating on experiences for launch. As a leader on the cross-functional team, you’ll have a lot of opportunity to influence strategy at the team and project level.

About the Team:

Our Gusto Pro team is dedicated to serving our accountant customers who rely on Gusto to support their small business clients with payroll, taxes, hiring, and more. Our mission is to help accountants be incredible partners to their clients through the support and strategic guidance they provide. By creating a platform that empowers accountants, we enable the success and growth of their firms.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• 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.

Here’s what we're looking for:

• 8+ years of software product design experience, preferably in B2B SaaS. Bonus if you’ve worked in domains related to Accounting like Finance, Payroll, and Benefits. 
• 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

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

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). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.

Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas. 

When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.

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. 

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