Staff Product Designer, Contractors
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, Contractors at Gusto in Canada - Toronto. 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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- Drive end-to-end design strategy and execution across the contractors experience from discovery and visioning through iterative delivery and refinement. 
- Partner with product, engineering, research, data, legal, compliance, operations, and support to define problem spaces, align on priorities, and deliver solutions that meet both customer and business needs. 
- Translate insights from research and data into intuitive, scalable experiences that support a variety of customer workflows. 
- Champion thoughtful, inclusive design by participating in design reviews, sharing feedback, and contributing to design standards and platform quality. 
- Bring genuine AI fluency to your design practice, using it to prototype quickly, shorten feedback loops, and improve contractor experiences.
- Mentor and support fellow designers by offering thoughtful critique, sharing knowledge, and contributing to design community initiatives across Gusto. 
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- Drive end-to-end design strategy and execution across the contractors experience from discovery and visioning through iterative delivery and refinement. 
- Partner with product, engineering, research, data, legal, compliance, operations, and support to define problem spaces, align on priorities, and deliver solutions that meet both customer and business needs. 
- Translate insights from research and data into intuitive, scalable experiences that support a variety of customer workflows. 
- Champion thoughtful, inclusive design by participating in design reviews, sharing feedback, and contributing to design standards and platform quality. 
- Bring genuine AI fluency to your design practice, using it to prototype quickly, shorten feedback loops, and improve contractor experiences.
- Mentor and support fellow designers by offering thoughtful critique, sharing knowledge, and contributing to design community initiatives across Gusto. 
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- Drive end-to-end design strategy and execution across the contractors experience from discovery and visioning through iterative delivery and refinement. 
- Partner with product, engineering, research, data, legal, compliance, operations, and support to define problem spaces, align on priorities, and deliver solutions that meet both customer and business needs. 
- Translate insights from research and data into intuitive, scalable experiences that support a variety of customer workflows. 
- Champion thoughtful, inclusive design by participating in design reviews, sharing feedback, and contributing to design standards and platform quality. 
- Bring genuine AI fluency to your design practice, using it to prototype quickly, shorten feedback loops, and improve contractor experiences.
- Mentor and support fellow designers by offering thoughtful critique, sharing knowledge, and contributing to design community initiatives across Gusto. 
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