Product Design Leader, Banking

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.

You will lead design across two products at different stages of maturity: Wallet, a long-running, established product, and SMB Banking, a newer banking product for small businesses.

Responsibilities:

• Manage an initial team of 3 designers, and hire to build your team.
• Build the rituals, hiring pipeline, and planning cadence that span both Consumer Banking and Business Banking.
• Coach designers working at two different stages at once: one optimizing and scaling something live, and one defining something that doesn't exist yet.
• Co-create goals and success metrics with product and engineering partners for the team.
• Raise the bar on Wallet's existing quality standard through critique and review, while defining a new standard from scratch for Business Banking.
• Stay hands-on: review and sometimes do design work directly on the highest-stakes decisions.
• Partner as an equal in the EPD trio with Banking's PM and engineering leads.
• Ensure Banking's products fit cohesively into Gusto's broader financial ecosystem.
• Build individualized career development plans with each direct report.
• Represent Banking's design needs to senior design leadership.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of product design experience, including 4+ years of people management experience.
• Established manager who has worked as a player-coach before.
• Portfolio and management track record showing high-quality work in consumer or business financial products.
• Experience partnering with Risk, Compliance, or Legal on regulated financial products.
• Experience incorporating AI tools and practices into how a whole design team works.

Benefits:

• Competitive base pay
• Benefits
• Equity (RSUs)

Salary Range: $178,000/yr to $253,000/yr in San Francisco and New York, and $147,000/yr to $215,000/yr in Denver