Design Systems Product Designer
Gusto is a payroll and HR platform that helps small businesses pay domestic and international employees, manage benefits, and automate compliance.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
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About Gusto
Gusto serves small and mid-sized businesses with payroll processing, employee benefits administration, and HR tools in one platform. Users can run payroll, manage health insurance, hire globally, and pay international contractors in local currency or USDC stablecoins. The platform automates payroll tax filings across multiple states and integrates with tools like QuickBooks and Xero.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design and maintain Workbench components and patterns, evolve token architecture, pair with engineers on coded implementations, contribute to AI tooling and documentation, support designers and engineers, and guide systemic decisions about component architecture and migration.
Requirements
- 4+ years on a product design systems team
- 7+ years on a product design team
- Token architecture and component API design experience
- Meaningful experience using AI tools such as Claude or Copilot
- Ability to pair with engineering and contribute to code repositories
- WCAG AA knowledge
- Expertise in Figma, complex components, variables, tokens, and prototyping
- Basic GitHub process knowledge
- Documentation and education expertise
- LLM-readable documentation, MCP server, or AI-assisted design tooling experience
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain Workbench components and patterns
- Evolve semantic and functional token architecture
- Pair with engineers on design decisions and coded implementations
- Review implementations and contribute pull requests
- Contribute to AI tooling, documentation, and Storybook examples
- Support product designers and engineers through office hours, Slack, and reviews
- Document design decisions and component guidance
- Guide component architecture, naming conventions, and migration strategy
Benefits
- Equity (RSUs)
- Hybrid work schedule