Senior Staff Product Designer, Payments & Risk Platform

About Gusto At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff—like payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR—so owners can focus on their craft and customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we’re proud to support more than 400,000 small businesses across the country, and we’re building a workplace that represents and celebrates the customers we serve. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy . About the Role: Are you ready to elevate the design vision for how small businesses interact with their money? As the Senior Staff Product Designer, you’ll own end-to-end product design for some of the most complex and mission-critical systems at Gusto. This is a senior individual contributor role that blends deep hands-on design craft with cross-functional leadership. You’ll serve as a design leader alongside two other designers on the Payments + Risk team, helping elevate craft, drive alignment, and mentor teammates through mindful feedback and proficient collaboration. You combine systems thinking with remarkable UX and visual design skills, enabling you to craft scalable patterns, explore new interaction models, and raise the overall quality of our product experiences. You’ll shape seamless and credible money-movement experiences across Gusto’s products—ensuring reliability, security, and simplicity at scale. About the Team: The Payments and Risk Platform is the foundation of Gusto’s success. We ensure money moves seamlessly and securely between businesses, partners, employees, government entities, and Gusto itself. We enable rapid and pro