Staff Product Designer, Gusto
Contractors
$177-222k
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
Open for applications
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$177-222k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To grow the small business economy.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of product design experience with demonstrated impact in complex domains. 
- Proven ability to lead design direction at the product level and influence cross-functional partners. 
- Strong collaboration experience with partners in product, engineering, research, and data. 
- A portfolio that demonstrates high-quality interaction and visual design with thoughtful consideration for accessibility and end-to-end user experiences. 
- Comfort translating ambiguity into clear design decisions and outcomes. 
- Strong communication skills with the ability to align teams around shared goals. 
- Demonstrated AI fluency in your design practice. You're using AI to move faster, prototype more, and get to better decisions
What the job involves
- Contractors play a huge role in our economy, and are becoming more prevalent every year. Contract work offers flexibility and self-sufficiency 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
- As a staff product designer, you’ll help bring our contractor products to maturity. You’ll be the IC design leader across this area, leading 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 the cross-functional leadership 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
- Drive end-to-end design strategy and execution across the contractors experience from discovery and visioning through iterative delivery and refinement
- Partner with product, engineering, research, data, legal, compliance, operations, and support to define problem spaces, align on priorities, and deliver solutions that meet both customer and business needs
- Translate insights from research and data into intuitive, scalable experiences that support a variety of customer workflows
- Champion awareness, inclusive design by participating in design reviews, sharing feedback, and contributing to design standards and platform quality
- Explore how technologies such as AI can improve customer workflows and enhance experiences
- Mentor and support fellow designers by offering mindful critique, sharing knowledge, and contributing to design community initiatives across Gusto
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 400,000 customers and a multi-billion dollar valuation. And 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 has seen it reach key profitability benchmarks. It continues to expand its platform, most recently partnering with Parafin to launch a payroll line of credit for small businesses. With a growing suite of services and a clear focus on supporting small businesses through changing economic conditions, Gusto looks set to sustain its momentum and further strengthen its position in the HR and payroll technology market.
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
- Health and Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents. Family care and support, including family planning and fertility benefits. Gender-affirming care and support. A variety of mental health resources.
- Time Away: It's important to take time away for yourself or to take care of your family. Gusto offers paid vacation, sick time, bereavement, and holidays, paid leaves, sabbatical, and more!
- Free meals and refreshments: If you work at one of our offices, enjoy food, drinks, and snacks— on us. Conversation and community is an added bonus!
- Perks:
Company HQ
Central Waterfront, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Joshua Reeves
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford and went onto co-found Gusto in 2011.
Tomer London
(Co-Founder & 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
(Co-Founder & 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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