Staff Product Designer, Gusto
Design Systems
$147-221k
Salary dependent on location. + Equity
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
Be an early applicant
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$147-221k
Salary dependent on location. + Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where work empowers a better life.
Role
Who you are
- If you have experience working on an in-house design system that supports multiple products where complex Figma component building, token creation, accessibility guidance, documentation writing, and engineer pairing are part of your day-to-day skillset, we’d love to hear from you!
- Design Systems Experience: Have 3+ years of experience working on a design systems team supporting product design teams through the full life cycle of design system creation, implementation, and maintenance
- Product Design Experience: 5+ years experience working on a product design team
- Technical Acumen: The ability to pair effectively with our engineering team designing component APIs
- Accessibility Minded: A deep understanding of Accessibility guidelines and the ability to implement WCAG AA compliant components and styles
- Technical Skill: Expert knowledge of Figma, including creating complex components with variants, properties, and interaction demos
- Design integrity: High degree of design craft and polish
- Communication: Documentation expertise and the ability to educate peers on all things design system. Demonstrated ability to effectively storytell in a variety of methods (visual, spoken language, etc.)
- Specific strengths: Strong skills in animation, prototyping, data visualization, and/or iconography preferred
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Design System’s designer with direct experience working on PRODUCT focused Design Systems
- Our design systems team is made up of designers and engineers who focus on creating and maintaining a rich set of Figma and React components for our product teams across platform and applications
- The team is in an exciting space of reinvention as we evolve an existing design system into the next level of maturity
- We are embedded within the design organization at Gusto, led by our CDO, Amy Thibodeau
- Define and maintain semantic and functional tokens for the design system
- Create simple and complex components, patterns, and templates in Figma
- Host and advise in our Design System’s slack channels and office hours
- Work with our engineering team to make sure our components are represented one to one in Figma and in React
- Document and publish design decisions and guidance
- Represent a service mindset with collaborative communication skills
- 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)
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
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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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