Senior Staff Product Designer, Finance

About Gusto

At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers. 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.

All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) — because everyone who helps build Gusto should share in its success. Offer amounts are determined by role, level, and location.

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 requirements vary by role and will be assessed during the interview process.

About Design at Gusto

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. 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.

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. 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 role

Gusto is building the financial platform that small businesses will rely on for the next decade, and AI is at the center of that. From how businesses move money, to how Gusto manages risk and verifies identity, AI is changing what's possible across every part of the experience. The design challenge is defining what it looks like to build those products right: not just faster and smarter, but genuinely trustworthy for the hundreds of thousands of businesses and employees who depend on them.

As the Sr. Staff Product Designer, Finance, you'll set the UX vision and strategy across the Money and Risk teams, spanning five interconnected product areas: Business Money, Consumer Money, Payments, Risk, and Identity. Your role is to see what individual teams can't, identifying opportunities and systemic gaps that span the full financial experience, and to drive the work that makes Gusto's financial products feel clear, trustworthy, and empowering for hundreds of thousands of small businesses and their employees. Nobody has fully figured out what AI-first financial UX looks like at scale. This role is the chance to define it at Gusto.

Your work will span the full scope: defining a long-term UX vision that connects financial and trust experiences across teams, identifying and driving high-impact opportunities that no single pod could tackle alone, and shaping product strategy alongside product directors and engineering leaders. You'll step in as a direct IC on the highest-priority projects, develop other designers, and contribute platform patterns that scale beyond the Money and Risk teams.

About the team

The Money team builds the financial products that help small businesses and their employees move, manage, and access their money. The Risk team ensures that every transaction is secure, compliant, and trustworthy — enabling Gusto to operate at scale while protecting customers and the business.