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About Gusto
At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff—like payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR—so owners can focus on their craft and customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we’re proud to support more than 400,000 small businesses across the country, and we’re building a workplace that represents and celebrates the customers we serve. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy.
About the Role:
Are you ready to elevate the design vision for how small businesses interact with their money?
As the Senior Staff Product Designer, you’ll own end-to-end product design for some of the most complex and mission-critical systems at Gusto. This is a senior individual contributor role that blends deep hands-on design craft with cross-functional leadership.
You’ll serve as a design leader alongside two other designers on the Payments + Risk team, helping elevate craft, drive alignment, and mentor teammates through mindful feedback and proficient collaboration.
You combine systems thinking with remarkable UX and visual design skills, enabling you to craft scalable patterns, explore new interaction models, and raise the overall quality of our product experiences. You’ll shape seamless and credible money-movement experiences across Gusto’s products—ensuring reliability, security, and simplicity at scale.
About the Team:
The Payments and Risk Platform is the foundation of Gusto’s success. We ensure money moves seamlessly and securely between businesses, partners, employees, government entities, and Gusto itself.
We enable rapid and proficient money movement while protecting our platform from financial risk. Our work spans re-architecting Gusto’s core payment systems, reducing false positives in fraud detection, and building credit and debt-collection systems.
Our mandate: enable fast, reliable payment flows and protect the platform, all while delivering great experiences at scale.
Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:
Here’s what we're looking for:
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 $172,000/yr to $215,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $202,000/yr to $253,000/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). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.
Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas.
When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required. This includes non-office days for hybrid employees.
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. Gusto considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Gusto is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. We want to see our candidates perform to the best of their ability. If you require a medical or religious accommodation at any time throughout your candidate journey, please fill out this form and a member of our team will get in touch with you.
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