Staff Product Designer, HR Apps Denver, CO;San Francisco, CA;New York, NY;Austin, TX;Chicago, I[...]

Gusto; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 161,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Staff Product Designer to join their HR Apps team. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the user experience for small business owners, impacting their ability to hire, manage, and celebrate their teams. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners to define a UX vision while influencing product strategy and roadmaps. As a champion for design quality and accessibility, you will play a crucial role in delivering customer-facing products, ensuring they meet high standards and provide real value. If you're passionate about design and eager to make a difference, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Equity-based compensation

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Flexible working hours

Collaborative workplace

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience in UX design with a focus on product strategy.
• Ability to influence design direction across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term UX vision and influence product strategy.
• Design and ship customer-facing products that deliver value.

Skills

UX Design

Product Strategy

Research and Data Analysis

Design System Advocacy

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Design or related field

Relevant certifications in UX/Product Design

Tools

Figma

Sketch

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

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 300,000 businesses nationwide.

Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life, and it starts right here at Gusto. That’s why we’re committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually.

About the Role:

We’re looking for a highly skilled and driven Staff Product Designer to join our new HR Apps team. This designer will ship products that help small business owners hire, manage, retain, and celebrate their team members. This person will be in a unique position to make a huge impact on Gusto and the success of customers using our products.

About the Team:

The HR Apps team helps small business owners grow and manage thriving teams. It’s a newly-formed product area that will grow into two engineering/product/design pods over the coming months. Some of the features this team owns:

• Applicant tracking: help employers post open jobs, manage candidates and interviews, and hire compliantly
• Learning management: deliver guided learning to meet compliance requirements and grow team members’ skills.
• Performance management: gather peer and manager feedback, manage performance reviews, and set development goals.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• 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
• Influence the definition of product strategy, roadmap, team OKRs, and project direction
• Build our collective understanding of customers’ HR 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

Here’s what we're looking for:

• Breadth of impact: This is a very senior IC design role on a strategic and new team within Gusto. You should have demonstrated experience impacting 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 presenting to executive stakeholders, and be able to demonstrate how you’ve impacted business decisions.
• Builder mindset: The person in this role will 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.

At Gusto, we strive to provide rewards that empower employees to achieve their financial and personal goals. We offer competitive compensation packages with a strong emphasis on equity-based compensation (ownership in Gusto). To learn more about Gusto’s compensation philosophy and benefits offerings please view our Total Rewards Approach page.

Our cash compensation range for this role is $133,000/yr to $182,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $161,000/yr to $219,000/yr in San Francisco, Seattle & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

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 customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto.

Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.