Gusto · 1 day ago
Senior Product Design Lead, Payments & Risk Platform
LA Metro Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$172K/yr - $215K/yr
8+ years expGusto is on a mission to grow the small business economy by providing essential services like payroll and health insurance. The Senior Product Design Lead will own the end-to-end product design for complex financial workflows, ensuring seamless and reliable money movement experiences across Gusto's products while mentoring other designers and driving design quality.
Bookkeeping and PayrollEmployee BenefitsEnterprise SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechHuman ResourcesSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Design end-to-end product experiences across complex financial workflows as a hands-on senior IC
Define and drive the long-term UX vision for Payments + Risk, aligned with Gusto’s strategy for money movement, trust, and risk
Lead design strategy within your focus area, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Risk to create alignment and clarity
Elevate the visual and interaction design quality of Payments + Risk experiences, ensuring clarity, polish, and usability
Explore and define new UX/UI patterns for sophisticated workflows—especially where no patterns currently exist
Evolve and maintain the design system, shaping scalable components and interaction models that support critical customer journeys
Influence product and technical roadmaps by advocating for customer needs, design quality, and long-term system health
Collaborate with Research to uncover and interpret user insights that inform product direction and UX strategy
Mentor other designers through feedback, pairing, and shared problem-solving, helping raise the overall craft bar
Contribute to Gusto’s design leadership community, shaping standards, processes, and design excellence across the organization
Qualification
Required
8–10+ years of product design experience, including time spent in complex, technical, or large-scale product domains
A portfolio demonstrating extraordinary UX and visual design craft, with high-quality, polished product work
Proven ability to lead design direction, drive alignment, and influence cross-functional partners
Experience designing for deeply technical systems, financial workflows, or other complex problem spaces
Expertise in systems thinking, with the ability to translate complexity into clear, elegant, and scalable experiences
Experience contributing to or evolving a design system—components, patterns, interaction models, and visual standards
Ability to define net-new patterns and interaction models in ambiguous or emerging product areas
Comfort operating in ambiguity while balancing long-term vision with rapid iteration and execution
AI fluency—knowledge of tools and workflows that enhance exploration, prototyping, or operational efficiency
A deep affinity for Gusto's mission to empower small businesses through modern, credible financial tools
Benefits
Health insurance
401(k)s
Company
Gusto
Gusto is an HR and payroll platform that simplifies complex tasks, empowering businesses to focus on what matters most.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2023 (19)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$746.1MKey Investors
Friends & Family CapitalT. Rowe PriceAkkadian Ventures
2023-01-28Series Unknown
2022-05-12Series E· $55M
2021-08-10Series E· $175M
Leadership Team
Josh Reeves
Head of Gusto (CEO) and Co-Founder. Building Gusto for the Long Term.
Edward Kim
Co-founder and Head of Technology
Recent News
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