Staff Product Designer, Time Tools

About Gusto

At Gusto were on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stufflike payroll health insurance 401(k)s and HRso owners can focus on their craft and customers. With teams in Denver San Francisco and New York were proud to support more than 400000 small businesses across the country and were building a workplace that represents and celebrates the customers we serve. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy.

About the Role:

Were looking for a product designer to join our Time Tools team a key area of growth for Gusto. As a core design contributor in this product area youll partner closely with PM Engineering and Data peers to shape high-priority initiatives. Youll be tasked with designing experiences that help small business owners and their employees manage time with confidence and ease.

This role offers the opportunity to own major product initiatives end-to-endfrom uncovering customer needs to shipping polished performant and accessible experiences. Youll collaborate with other designers on the team contribute to our design system and help elevate the craft quality of our product.

About the Team:

Time and Attendance is our flagship in a suite of add-ons designed to complement Gusto Payroll. The add-on helps small business owners track time create and share schedules manage attendance and seamlessly sync hours to payrollall within the Gusto platform. The teams scope includes:

• Time tracking: Allow employees to log hours via web app or kiosk supporting flexible work arrangements like remote and flextime.
• Scheduling: Create and manage employee schedules accommodating shifts availability and shift swaps.
• Time off policies and requests: Automate time off management support complex PTO policies and ensure compliance with labor laws.
• PTO balances: Keep track of employee time off with automatic updates that sync vacation and sick days with payroll and calendars.
• Project tracking: Manage projects with tools for tracking time spent on tasks analyzing progress and adjusting workloads.

Heres what youll do day-to-day

• Translate customer insights into intuitive scalable workflows that simplify scheduling attendance and compliance.
• Design and refine multi-surface experiences (web mobile kiosk) that meet the needs of both managers and employees.
• Partner with PM Engineering and Data to define problem spaces set priorities and deliver customer value.
• Champion our design system and evolve it through contributions that improve platform cohesion.
• Balance long-term vision with near-term execution navigating ambiguity and adjusting scope as customer needs evolve.
• Provide mindful critique and mentorship to peers helping elevate craft quality across the team.

Heres what were looking for:

• Experience: 8 years in product design.
• Product acumen: Proven ability to collaborate with PM and Engineering partners to shape priorities and translate them into clear roadmaps.
• Craft excellence: Portfolio demonstrating accessible performant and mindful end-to-end product design across web and mobile.
• Customer empathy: Skill at uncovering and synthesizing customer needsparticularly for small businesses and hourly workersinto actionable design insights.
• Collaboration and influence: Robust communication skills with the ability to align cross-functional partners and drive clarity in complex problem spaces.

Ideally you have:

• Experience designing complex systems or compliance-heavy workflows ideally in SaaS HR or productivity tools.
• Knowledge designing AI-driven experiences including AI agents conversational UI or LLM-powered workflows.
• Experience scaling products in fast-growing environments balancing early-stage adoption with long-term system design.
• An affinity for helping small businesses and their employees thrive.

Compensation Details

Our cash compensation range for this role is $146000/yr to $183000/yr in Denver & most remote locations and $177000/yr to $222000/yr in San Francisco Seattle & New York. Final offer amounts are decided by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

The target level for this role is level 4 and our cash compensation range for this role is $146000/yr to $183000/yr in Denver & most remote locations and $177000/yr to $222000/yr in San Francisco Seattle & New York. Remote locations will vary based on our geographical pay approach. Final offer amounts are decided by multiple factors including candidate location experience and expertise and may vary from the level and 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 Gustos 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 its 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.

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