Remote World - Staff Product Designer, Contractors

Product Designer is needed in Finland.

Client: Remote World

Location: Remote, Finland

Contract: Contract

Job Description

As a staff product designer at Gusto, you’ll help bring contractor products to maturity, acting as the IC design leader across this area. You will drive foundational shifts to our platform and customer experiences, leading the entire product development process from long-term vision to strategic planning, launching new features, and iterating on existing ones. This unique opportunity allows you to make significant experience changes to business-critical workflows.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product design experience with demonstrated impact in complex domains.
• Proven ability to lead design direction at the product level and influence cross-functional partners.
• Strong collaboration experience with partners in product, engineering, research, and data.
• A portfolio that demonstrates high-quality interaction and visual design with thoughtful consideration for accessibility and end-to-end user experiences.
• Comfort translating ambiguity into clear design decisions and outcomes.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to align teams around shared goals.
• Demonstrated AI fluency in your design practice, using AI to move faster, prototype more, and make better decisions.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end design strategy and execution across the contractors experience from discovery and visioning through iterative delivery and refinement.
• Partner with product, engineering, research, data, legal, compliance, operations, and support to define problem spaces, align on priorities, and deliver solutions that meet both customer and business needs.
• Translate insights from research and data into intuitive, scalable experiences that support a variety of customer workflows.
• Champion thoughtful, inclusive design by participating in design reviews, sharing feedback, and contributing to design standards and platform quality.
• Bring genuine AI fluency to your design practice, using it to prototype quickly, shorten feedback loops, and improve contractor experiences.
• Mentor and support fellow designers by offering thoughtful critique, sharing knowledge, and contributing to design community initiatives across Gusto.

Compensation Details

At Gusto, we strive to provide rewards that empower employees to achieve their financial and personal goals. We offer competitive compensation packages with a strong emphasis on equity-based compensation (ownership in Gusto). The 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. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise.

Additional Information

Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees 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). Remote workers must have a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection.

Gusto is committed to diversity and inclusion. We hire individuals from a variety of backgrounds, as it strengthens our company. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics. We provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our application procedures.

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