# Senior Product Design Manager, Payroll

**Company**: Gusto
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $202,000/yr to $253,000/yr
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're on a mission to grow the small business economy. You will lead design for one of Gusto's most complex and consequential product areas, shaping the future of a product that millions of people rely on for financial stability and personal prosperity.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead end-to-end design for Payroll , shaping experiences that help small businesses pay their teams correctly, on time, and with confidence.

- Define and communicate the long-term UX vision for Payroll, and rally multiple teams around it.

- Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, Ops and others to set strategy and roadmaps.

- Lead product initiatives where AI and automation are central to the user experience, simplifying payroll and reducing manual work without compromising accuracy or trust.

- Collaborate with Research and Data to uncover customer insights and translate them into clear, actionable UX priorities.

- Influence product and technical roadmaps by advocating for design quality, customer needs, and long-term system health.

- Set the quality and judgment standard for all design work , whether AI-assisted or not , including when to push further and when outputs meet the bar.

- Define and scale shared patterns, principles, and standards that promote quality, consistency, and velocity.

- Manage and grow a team of designers, providing mentorship, clear direction, and hands-on support across the team.

- Champion the Payroll experience as the foundation of Gusto's broader People Platform, ensuring seamless integration across Benefits, Time & Attendance, and third-party tools.

**Requirements**

- 8–10+ years of product design experience, with at least 3 years leading and managing design teams.

- Experience designing in complex domains i.e. financial products, healthcare, or similarly regulated environments.

- Experience setting UX direction across multiple teams and influencing product strategy , not just executing on it.

- Experience leading product initiatives where AI or automation is central to the user experience , including how to represent uncertainty, surface errors gracefully, and preserve user agency when automation gets it wrong, particularly in high-stakes contexts.

- Demonstrated ability to assess AI-generated design directions: knowing when to use them, when to override them, and how to raise the quality bar on AI outputs.

- Proven ability to drive alignment across cross-functional partners and represent design in high-stakes, strategic conversations.

- Deep systems thinking, with a track record of turning interconnected, complex workflows into experiences that feel simple and intuitive.

- Experience leading a team through an AI workflow transition , not just adopting AI personally, but changing how a team works, including establishing new norms and standards.

- Clear, direct communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to explain design decisions and influence partners at all levels.

- A genuine bond to Gusto's mission and the needs of small businesses.

**Compensation Details**

- Cash compensation range: $202,000/yr to $253,000/yr in San Francisco, Seattle & New York.

- Competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs).

## Skills

### Required
- product design
- UX design
- AI
- automation
- leadership
- team management
- communication
- storytelling

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