Hiring: Design Systems, Staff Product Designer Company: Gusto Location: New York City Metropolitan Area Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 14:47:59 Employment Type: Full-time / Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : API Design, Accessibility, Design System, Embedded Systems, Figma, GitHub, LLM, Slack, Storybook, WCAG About the job Experience: •4+ years working on a product design systems team through the full lifecycle — design, implementation, documentation, and adoption. Experience with token architecture and component API design is required. •7+ years experience working on a product design team Required Skills: •We're a small, tight-knit team of designers and engineers embedded within Gusto's design organization, led by our CDO, Amy Thibodeau. We care deeply about craft, systems thinking, and making complex things feel simple for the people who depend on us. •Here’s What You’ll Do Day-to-day •Design and maintain Workbench components and patterns, including complex components with variables, variants, and tokenized styles •Own and evolve semantic and functional token architecture as we execute the Brand Refresh and move toward theming •Work closely with our engineering team to ensure component consistency including coded implementations — pairing on design decisions, reviewing implementations, contributing to technical plans, and committing your own PRs. •Contribute to AI tooling that helps designers and engineers use Workbench correctly — including structured documentation, storybook examples, and content that makes the system legible to LLMs •Support product designers and engineers through Office Hours, Slack, and async review •Document and publish design decisions, usage guidance, and component rationale Compensation: •$147,000 - $215,000 / year •We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!