Product Design Manager, Gusto Embedded Payroll

About [REDACTED]

At [REDACTED], we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff—like payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR—so owners can focus on their craft and customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we're proud to support more than 400,000 small businesses across the country, and we're building a workplace that represents and celebrates the customers we serve. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy.

About the role

As a Product Design Manager for [REDACTED] Embedded Payroll, you will play a foundational role in shaping how payroll comes to life inside partners' products — defining the design vision, elevating craft, and building the systems that make embedded payroll intuitive, reliable, and scalable.

This is a player-coach position. You will manage and grow a small team of designers while also taking on individual contributor design work for high-impact areas. You'll lead critical explorations, design end-to-end workflows, and set patterns and frameworks that others can build on. In parallel, you'll coach designers, review work, and create the conditions for the team to deliver high-quality, compliant experiences.

You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Technical Solutions, and external platform partners to shape strategy, drive alignment, and translate technical and regulatory constraints into simple, trustworthy customer experiences. You'll ensure your team has the context, systems, and guidance to do the best work of their careers — and that our partners can confidently deliver payroll to their customers.

This is a high-impact opportunity to lead at the intersection of product design, platform strategy, and embedded payroll tech. You will help define how [REDACT…