Product Designer, Design Systems id-8718

May 14, 2025

About Gusto

Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 400,000 businesses nationwide.

Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life, and it starts right here at Gusto. That’s why we’re committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy.

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About Design At Gusto

Product Design at Gusto is made up of over 70 creative, collaborative people who care deeply about our mission to empower small businesses and their employees. We’re a cross-functional bunch focused on Design, Research, Writing, Ops and Front-end Development who are always looking for opportunities to build understanding and empathy for the people who use Gusto. We don’t care a whole lot about swim lanes and we work closely with our partners in Product, Engineering, Data, and Marketing to design, build and ship experiences that make a difference. We are passionate advocates for thoughtful, crafted, and inclusive experiences and we believe great design can make hard things possible, even delightful. Read more about Design at Gusto.

About The Role

We're seeking a Senior Design Systems designer to pioneer our native iOS and Android design system, a key company priority that will transform how users experience our products. You'll standardize our existing mobile applications while building a cohesive visual language that extends our web design system to native experiences. The ideal candidate brings expertise in Figma component creation, token architecture, accessibility guidelines, documentation, and engineer collaboration to our highly collaborative team. This is your opportunity to shape our mobile future from the ground up.

About The Team

Our design systems team is made up of designers and engineers who focus on creating and maintaining a rich set of Figma and coded components for our product teams across platforms and applications. The team is in an exciting space of reinvention as we evolve an existing design system into the next level of maturity. We are embedded within the design organization at Gusto, led by our CDO, Amy Thibodeau.

Here’s What You’ll Do Day-to-day

Define and maintain semantic and functional tokens for the design system

Create both Native and mobile-responsive simple and complex components, patterns, and templates in Figma

Support Gusties in building and designing Native experiences with our Design System through Office Hours and Slack support.

Work with our Engineering team to ensure component and pattern consistency and alignment across Figma, Native experiences, and React web views.

Document and publish design decisions and guidance

Represent a service mindset with collaborative communication skills

Here’s What We're Looking For

Design Systems Experience: Have 3+ years of experience working on a mobile design systems team supporting product design teams through the full life cycle of design system creation, implementation, and maintenance. Experience designing and building both mobile web and Native components is required.

Product Design Experience: 5+ years experience working on a product design team

Technical Acumen: The ability to pair effectively with our engineering team designing component APIs.

Accessibility Minded: A deep understanding of Accessibility guidelines and the ability to implement WCAG AA compliant components and styles in mobile web and native experiences.

Technical Skill: Expert knowledge of Figma, including creating complex components with variants, properties, and interaction demos. Expert knowledge of Material and HIG design guidance and Native expectations.

Design integrity: High degree of design craft and polish.

Communication: Documentation expertise and the ability to educate peers on all things design systems. Demonstrated ability to use storytelling effectively in a variety of methods (visual, spoken language, etc.)

Specific strengths: Strong skills in animation, prototyping, data visualization, and/or iconography preferred.

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). To learn more about Gusto’s compensation philosophy and benefits offerings please view our Total Rewards Approach page.

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