Lead Product Designer, Gusto
Time Tools
$204-254k
2-3 days a week in office
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
Be an early applicant
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$204-254k
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where work empowers a better life.
Role
Who you are
- Breadth of impact: This role will be one of Gusto’s most senior design leaders. You should have demonstrated experience leading design direction across multiple teams, and influencing design/product across multiple product areas
- 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
- Builder mindset: The person in this role will design and ship customer-facing products, not just plans and documents. You should be able to demonstrate how you’ve used design as a tool for communication and persuasion
- 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 screen sizes, while shipping iteratively to deliver customer value early and often
Desirable
- Prior management experience: This role has the potential to grow into a player/coach people management role over time, depending on the goals of the successful candidate
What the job involves
- We’re seeking a design leader to join our Time Tools team, a key area of growth for Gusto
- As the senior design representative in this product area, you’ll partner closely with PM, Engineering, and Data peers to identify and prioritize new opportunities, define problem spaces, and set roadmaps
- You'll be a key contributor to the entire product development process—from initial research and concept development to refining UI and launching new features
- Additionally, you’ll collaborate with two other designers on your team to design and ship meaningful improvements to our product experience
- Gusto is expanding into new product areas, and Time and Attendance is our flagship in a suite of add-ons designed to complement Gusto Payroll
- The add-on helps small business owners track time, create and share schedules, manage attendance, and seamlessly sync hours to payroll—all within the Gusto platform
- Work with your cross-functional partners to define a long-term UX vision for your product area and how it fits into Gusto’s broader vision
- Co-lead the definition of product strategy, roadmap, team OKRs, and project direction
- Build our collective understanding of customers’ needs through research and data
- Design and 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 product work
- Mentor and coach other designers on the team to deliver high-quality experiences
Our take
For many small businesses, vital administrative tasks such as payroll, taxes, and benefits are manual tasks that take time and energy which many SMB owners don’t have. The three co-founders of Gusto – all coming from small business backgrounds – collaborated on a Fintech company that would handle employee payments, benefits administration, and compliance support specifically for small businesses.
The company may have started slowly, as the founders focused on nailing each individual aspect of Gusto’s operations, but has now skyrocketed to unicorn status with more than 200,000 customers and a multi-billion dollar valuation. In 2021, Gusto began acquiring other companies to strengthen its offering and its position in a competitive market, including two other fintech startups, Ardius and Symmetry.
Through its continued acquisitions and fundraising efforts, the company has carved out a strong position for itself in the space. Although Gusto has found itself impacted by the macroeconomic situation, through the significant effect it has had on its clientele, the company still appears positive for the future after raising funds in 2023 that will see it reach key profitability benchmarks. It continues to consolidate its platform, for example by integrating with OpenComp to grant its users access to the company's Compensation Intelligence Platform.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2022
$55m
SERIES E
Aug 2021
$175m
SERIES E
Total funding: $706.1m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, plus a variety of mental health resources
- Flexible vacation - Gusties are encouraged to take the time off they need to continue doing great work
- Fertility treatments, parental leave, pregnancy termination, caregiving, gender-affirming surgery, hormone treatments, transgender-inclusive services, and more
- If you work at one of our homebases, enjoy food, drinks, and good conversation — on us
- Celebrate 5 or 10 years at Gusto and take a month off to recharge
- Take advantage of internet, phone, commuter, and wellness stipends each month, along with a WFH stipend and cash for anniversaries
Company values
- Embody a service mindset - Never stop advocating for the needs of others
- Dream big, then make it real - Be ambitious. Show and do, rather than tell and talk
- Be proud of the how - Ensure deep integrity in everything you do
- Embrace an ownership mentality - Take initiative to leave things better than you found them
- Debate then commit - Share openly, question respectfully, and once a decision is made, commit fully
Company HQ
Central Waterfront, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Joshua Reeves
(CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford and went onto co-found Gusto in 2011.
Tomer London
(CPO)Has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. Was a Researcher at Intel, and then interned at Bump Technologies. Co-founded Vizmo, a mobile self-service technologies company, in 2008. Co-founded Gusto in 2011.
Edward Kim
(Head of Engineering)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford. Was Senior Project Engineer at Volkswagen of America Electronics Research Lab and then co-founded Picwing, a printed photos company, in 2008. Co-founded Gusto in 2011.
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