Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Staff Product Designer role sits in a mature SaaS product organization working on Time and Attendance features that extend an existing platform. In SaaS terms, it is design work at the intersection of core workflows and add-on monetisation, where reliability, edge cases, and product cohesion matter as much as surface-level UI. The emphasis on multi-surface experiences across web, mobile, and kiosk also signals a product area with operational usage patterns, not just occasional logins.
For a SaaS design career, the durable value here is exposure to end-to-end product shaping in a domain where adoption depends on trust, clarity, and compliance-aware flows. The remit spans discovery through shipping, plus contributions to a design system, which builds transferable strengths for platform design, workflow-heavy UX, and cross-functional decision-making with Product, Engineering, and Data. The stated AI-native approach also reflects an emerging expectation in SaaS teams: faster iteration cycles and tighter feedback loops without sacrificing accessibility or performance.
This role suits a senior designer who prefers ownership and influence over narrow execution, and who is comfortable navigating ambiguous problem spaces while still delivering shippable outcomes. It aligns with professionals who enjoy designing for multiple user types and contexts, and who want their craft to include systems thinking, critique, and mentoring alongside hands-on delivery.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About Design at Gusto
Design at Gusto is made up of over 80 creative, collaborative people who care deeply about our mission to empower small businesses and their employees. We're a cross-functional group that is always looking for opportunities to build understanding and empathy for the people who use Gusto. We don't care much about swim lanes and though we care deeply about quality and craft, we are never precious about it. We work closely with cross-functional partners in Product, Engineering, Data, and Marketing to design, build, and ship experiences that make a real difference. We believe great design can make hard things possible, even delightful.
We are building an AI-native design organization — and we mean that seriously. We're looking for designers who are already working this way: using AI to prototype ideas quickly, shorten customer feedback loops, and ship quality UX directly to customers. This isn't a future aspiration — it's how we work now, and it's changing what the design role looks like at Gusto and across the industry. Read more about Design at Gusto.
About the Role:
We’re looking for a product designer to join our Time Tools team, a key area of growth for Gusto. As a core design contributor in this product area, you’ll partner closely with PM, Engineering, and Data peers to shape high-priority initiatives. You’ll be responsible for designing experiences that help small business owners and their employees manage time with confidence and ease.
This role offers the opportunity to own major product initiatives end-to-end—from uncovering customer needs to shipping polished, performant, and accessible experiences. You’ll collaborate with other designers on the team, contribute to our design system, and help elevate the craft quality of our product.
About the Team:
Time and Attendance is our flagship in a suite of add-ons designed to complement Gusto Payroll. The add-on helps small business owners track time, create and share schedules, manage attendance, and seamlessly sync hours to payroll—all within the Gusto platform. The team’s scope includes:
- Time tracking: Allow employees to log hours via web, app, or kiosk, supporting flexible work arrangements like remote and flextime.
- Scheduling: Create and manage employee schedules, accommodating shifts, availability, and shift swaps.
- Time off policies and requests: Automate time off management, support complex PTO policies, and ensure compliance with labor laws.
- PTO balances: Keep track of employee time off with automatic updates that sync vacation and sick days with payroll and calendars.
- Project tracking: Manage projects with tools for tracking time spent on tasks, analyzing progress, and adjusting workloads.
Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:
- Translate customer insights into intuitive, scalable workflows that simplify scheduling, attendance, and compliance.
- Design and refine multi-surface experiences (web, mobile, kiosk) that meet the needs of both managers and employees.
- Partner with PM, Engineering, and Data to define problem spaces, set priorities, and deliver customer value.
- Champion our design system and evolve it through contributions that improve platform cohesion.
- Balance long-term vision with near-term execution, navigating ambiguity and adjusting scope as customer needs evolve.
- Provide thoughtful critique and mentorship to peers, helping elevate craft quality across the team.
Here’s what we're looking for:
- Experience: 8+ years in product design.
- Product acumen: Proven ability to collaborate with PM and Engineering partners to shape priorities and translate them into clear roadmaps.
- Craft excellence: Portfolio demonstrating accessible, performant, and thoughtful end-to-end product design across web and mobile.
- Customer empathy: Skill at uncovering and synthesizing customer needs—particularly for small businesses and hourly workers—into actionable design insights.
- Collaboration and influence: Strong communication skills, with the ability to align cross-functional partners and drive clarity in complex problem spaces.
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). To learn more about Gusto’s compensation philosophy and benefits offerings please view our Total Rewards Approach page.
Our 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, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
