Staff Product Designer, Benefits
About Gusto At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
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Staff Product Designer, Benefits at Gusto in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About Gusto At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
Day-to-day expectations
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- Lead 0→1 discovery and design for a new Benefits product offering—from problem framing to MVP definition—grounded in real employer + employee workflows.
- Design end-to-end service experiences across employer, employee, and internal ops workflows—identifying where AI can reduce complexity while keeping decisions clear and controllable.
- Design AI-assisted decision moments that help customers choose and act with confidence.
- Design the system that makes AI safe and scalable: define objects, rules, states, and exception paths plus guardrails for when AI should defer to humans.
- Make data legible and operational: shape the information model and UX so humans and AI can collaborate—clean inputs, clear outputs, and structured handoffs that reduce errors and rework.
- Build product feedback loops that improve AI quality over time: define success metrics, evaluation signals, and human-in-the-loop review patterns to continuously tune guidance, routing, and automation.
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- Lead 0→1 discovery and design for a new Benefits product offering—from problem framing to MVP definition—grounded in real employer + employee workflows.
- Design end-to-end service experiences across employer, employee, and internal ops workflows—identifying where AI can reduce complexity while keeping decisions clear and controllable.
- Design AI-assisted decision moments that help customers choose and act with confidence.
- Design the system that makes AI safe and scalable: define objects, rules, states, and exception paths plus guardrails for when AI should defer to humans.
- Make data legible and operational: shape the information model and UX so humans and AI can collaborate—clean inputs, clear outputs, and structured handoffs that reduce errors and rework.
- Build product feedback loops that improve AI quality over time: define success metrics, evaluation signals, and human-in-the-loop review patterns to continuously tune guidance, routing, and automation.
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- Lead 0→1 discovery and design for a new Benefits product offering—from problem framing to MVP definition—grounded in real employer + employee workflows.
- Design end-to-end service experiences across employer, employee, and internal ops workflows—identifying where AI can reduce complexity while keeping decisions clear and controllable.
- Design AI-assisted decision moments that help customers choose and act with confidence.
- Design the system that makes AI safe and scalable: define objects, rules, states, and exception paths plus guardrails for when AI should defer to humans.
- Make data legible and operational: shape the information model and UX so humans and AI can collaborate—clean inputs, clear outputs, and structured handoffs that reduce errors and rework.
- Build product feedback loops that improve AI quality over time: define success metrics, evaluation signals, and human-in-the-loop review patterns to continuously tune guidance, routing, and automation.
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