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
[https://gusto.com/about/careers/total-rewards].
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
[https://gusto.com/partners/accountants] that empowers accountants, we enable
the success and growth of their firms.
About the opportunity:
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.
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 $172,000/yr to $215,000/yr in
Denver & most remote locations, and $202,000/yr to $253,000/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. This includes
non-office days for hybrid employees.
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. We want to see our candidates perform to the best of
their ability. If you require a medical or religious accommodation at any time
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Gusto takes security and protection of your personal information very seriously.
Please review our Fraudulent Activity Disclaimer
[https://gusto.com/about/careers/fraudulent-activity-disclaimer].
Personal information collected and processed as part of your Gusto application
will be subject to Gusto's Applicant Privacy Notice
[https://gusto.com/about/careers/applicant-privacy-notice].
