Staff Product Designer, Gusto
Contractors
$146-222k
Plus equity based compensation. Salary applicable to US candidates only. dependent on location
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
Open for applications
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$146-222k
Plus equity based compensation. Salary applicable to US candidates only. dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where work empowers a better life.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years' Product Design experience
- 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
- 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
- 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 and accessibility across platforms, while shipping iteratively to deliver customer value early and often
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to define a long-term UX vision for your area and how it fits into Gusto’s broader vision
- 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
- Design and ship both net-new and iterative projects that deliver consistent value to our customers
- Contribute to Gusto’s product design community by sharing your skills and experience
- Champion our design system and platform standards, and help evolve them through your team’s work
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
45% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
May 2022
$55m
SERIES E
Aug 2021
$175m
SERIES E
Total funding: $706.3m
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 HQ
Central Waterfront, San Francisco, CA
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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