Product Designer, Design Systems

Gusto; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 139,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Design Systems Designer to lead the mobile design system, standardizing applications and developing a cohesive visual language. This role involves collaboration with engineers and designers to enhance user experiences across platforms.

Benefits

Equity Ownership

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with mobile design systems.
• 5+ years of product design experience.
• Expertise in Figma with complex components.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain semantic and functional tokens for the design system.
• Create mobile-responsive components in Figma.
• Collaborate with Engineering for consistency across platforms.

Skills

Mobile Design Systems

Figma

Accessibility

Documentation

Collaboration

Job description

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About Gusto
Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 400,000 businesses nationwide.

About Design at Gusto
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 team focused on Design, Research, Writing, Ops, and Front-end Development, always seeking opportunities to build understanding and empathy for our users. We collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Data, and Marketing to design, build, and ship impactful experiences. We believe great design can make hard things possible, even delightful. Learn more about Design at Gusto.

About The Role
We’re seeking a Senior Design Systems Designer to lead our native iOS and Android design system, a key initiative that will transform user experiences. You will standardize our mobile applications and develop a cohesive visual language extending our web design system to native platforms. The ideal candidate has expertise in Figma component creation, token architecture, accessibility, documentation, and collaborating with engineers. This is an opportunity to shape our mobile design future from the ground up.

About The Team
Our design systems team consists of designers and engineers dedicated to creating and maintaining a rich set of Figma and coded components across platforms. We are evolving our existing design system into its next phase of maturity, led by our CDO, Amy Thibodeau.

Daily Responsibilities

1. Define and maintain semantic and functional tokens for the design system
2. Create native and mobile-responsive components, patterns, and templates in Figma
3. Support Gusties in designing native experiences through Office Hours and Slack
4. Collaborate with Engineering to ensure consistency across Figma, native apps, and web views
5. Document and publish design decisions and guidelines
6. Communicate effectively with a service mindset

Qualifications

1. 3+ years of experience with mobile design systems supporting product teams through creation, implementation, and maintenance, including mobile web and native components
2. 5+ years of product design experience
3. Technical skills in pairing with engineering on component APIs
4. Deep understanding of accessibility guidelines, WCAG AA compliance in mobile web and native experiences
5. Expertise in Figma, including complex components with variants and interactions
6. Strong design craft and polish
7. Excellent documentation and storytelling skills
8. Preferred: Skills in animation, prototyping, data visualization, and iconography

Gusto offers competitive compensation, emphasizing equity ownership, with a range of $139,000 to $199,000 in Denver and most remote locations, and $179,000 to $221,000 in Seattle, San Francisco, and New York. Final offers depend on experience and expertise.