design
Posted 1 weeks agoProduct Designer, Retirement
at Gusto
Denver, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- Design at Gusto is made up of over 80 creative, collaborative people who care deeply about our mission to empower small businesses and their employees.
- Design Leadership & Ownership: Drive the full design process for shipped experiences—scoping and sequencing work, prototyping, testing, and delivering MVP → iteration → longer-term improvements.
- Building strong partnerships with Product, Engineering, and Data to prioritize, execute, and iterate
- Track record leading multi-workstream initiatives across teams—setting direction, unblocking partners, and shipping measurable improvements
Requirements
- AI is a fundamental part of how work gets done at Gusto. We expect all team members to actively engage with AI tools relevant to their role and grow their fluency as the technology evolves. AI experience
- We are building an AI-native design organization — and we mean that seriously.
- We're looking for designers who are already working this way: using AI to prototype ideas quickly, shorten customer feedback loops, and ship quality UX directly to customers.
- Our process incorporates using AI in our daily workflows to move faster, explore ideas, and increase our impact.
- experience across the employer and employee journey.
- benefits touchpoints. Apply discerning design judgment to determine when and how to effectively incorporate AI to enhance the experience.
- Elevating Craft & Mentorship: Provide thoughtful critique and mentorship to design peers; raise the quality bar across the organization. Be an innovation driver with using and designing for AI.
- AI-Accelerated Prototyping & Learning: Use AI to move quickly from concept to customer-tested artifact — building clickable, high-fidelity prototypes that generate real signal faster than traditional methods allow.
- Bring a clear point of view on where AI enhances the customer experience, not just your workflow, and help raise the team's fluency through your example.
- Demonstrable AI fluency in your design practice — not just familiarity with tools, but evidence of AI changing how you prototype, test, and ship. We'll ask you to show this, not just describe it.
- Comfort moving between design and code — whether that means shipping UI improvements directly, working closely in the codebase with engineers, or using AI-assisted tools to close the gap between prototype and production.
Experience
- 8+ years in product design, with a portfolio showing end-to-end shipped work and the impact it drove
Benefits
- We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
- All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) — because everyone who helps build Gusto should share in its success.
- With 401(k) plans designed to be affordable, easy to manage, and easy to understand, Gusto is working to make retirement accessible to small businesses and teams that have historically been underserved by the 401(k) market.
- Strategic Vision & Partnership: Partner with Product Management to define the customer problems to solve, the strategy to solve them, and the measurable outcomes that matter—across activation, engagement, and retention.
- High bar for craft across interaction design, information architecture, and visual design—especially for complex, form-heavy workflows Bonus:
- Experience in regulated/high-trust domains (fintech, taxes, insurance, healthcare, benefits/retirement)
- Bonus: Comfortable tackling content design aspects (making complex concepts understandable)
- Bonus: Have contributed to growing a Design system with components or patterns
- 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
- Our cash compensation range for this role is $146,000/yr to $183,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $177,000/yr to $222,000/yr in San Francisco, Seattle & New York.
Additional details
- At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy.
- With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we support more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide and are building a workplace that reflects the people we serve.
- Offer amounts are determined by role, level, and location.
- Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy .
- requirements vary by role and will be assessed during the interview process.
- We're a cross-functional group that is always looking for opportunities to build understanding and empathy for the people who use Gusto.
- We don't care much about swim lanes and though we care deeply about quality and craft, we are never precious about it.
- We work closely with cross-functional partners in Product, Engineering, Data, and Marketing to design, build, and ship experiences that make a real difference.
- We believe great design can make hard things possible, even delightful.
- This isn't a future aspiration — it's how we work now, and it's changing what the design role looks like at Gusto and across the industry. About the Team: