<p>About Design at Gusto:</p> <p>Product Design at Gusto is made up of over 70 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.</p> <p>About the role:</p> <p>As a staff product designer, you'll help bring our contractor products to maturity. You'll be an IC designer helping drive foundational shifts to our platform and customer experiences. This is a unique opportunity to make major experience changes to established, business critical workflows. As part of a cross-functional team, you'll drive the entire product development process from setting the long-term vision to strategic planning; all the way to launching new features and iterating on existing ones.</p> <p>About the team:</p> <p>Contractors play a huge role in our economy, and are becoming more prevalent every year. Contract work offers flexibility and independence for workers, and hiring contractors helps small business owners scale quickly and access specialized skills. Our Contractors team helps small and medium business owners (SMBs) hire, manage, and pay domestic and international contractors. We also help contractors manage their client engagements and build their own thriving businesses.</p> <p>Here's what you'll do day-to-day:</p> <ul> <li>Collaborate with cross-functional partners to define a long-term UX vision for your area and how it fits into Gusto's broader vision. </li><li>Work with cross-functional partners in UX Research, Data Science, Legal, Compliance, Ops, and Customer Support to understand customer problems and identify key opportunities for the customer and our business. </li><li>Design and ship both net-new and iterative projects that deliver consistent value to our customers. </li><li>Contribute to Gusto's product design community by sharing your skills and experience. </li><li>Champion our design system and platform standards, and help evolve them through your team's work. </li></ul> <p>Here's what we're looking for:</p> <ul> <li>8+ years' Product Design experience </li><li>Breadth of impact: This is an IC design role on a top company priority that touches almost every part of Gusto's platform. You should have demonstrated experience leading design direction at the product level, and influencing design/product across multiple product areas. </li><li>Comfortable with complexity: You've led the design of approachable, guided customer experiences in complex domains. Ideally you have direct "one-to-ten" experience maturing existing products. </li><li>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. </li><li>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 and accessibility across platforms, while shipping iteratively to deliver customer value early and often. </li></ul> <p>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.</p> <p>Our cash compensation range for this role is $139,000/yr to $199,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $179,000/yr to $221,000/yr in Seattle, 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.</p>