About the Role: We're looking for a Senior Design System's designer with direct experience working on PRODUCT focused Design Systems. If you have experience working on an in-house design system that supports multiple products where complex Figma component building, token creation, accessibility guidance, documentation writing, and engineer pairing are part of your day-to-day skillset, we'd love to hear from you!
About the Team: Our design systems team is made up of designers and engineers who focus on creating and maintaining a rich set of Figma and React components for our product teams across platform and applications. The team is in an exciting space of reinvention as we evolve an existing design system into the next level of maturity. We are embedded within the design organization at Gusto, led by our CDO, Amy Thibodeau.
Here's what you'll do day-to-day: Define and maintain semantic and functional tokens for the design system Create simple and complex components, patterns, and templates in Figma Host and advise in our Design System's slack channels and office hours Work with our engineering team to make sure our components are represented one to one in Figma and in React Document and publish design decisions and guidance Represent a service mindset with collaborative communication skills Here's what we're looking for: Design Systems Experience: Have 3+ years of experience working on a design systems team supporting product design teams through the full life cycle of design system creation, implementation, and maintenance. Product Design Experience: 5+ years experience working on a product design team Technical Acumen: The ability to pair effectively with our engineering team designing component APIs. Accessibility Minded: A deep understanding of Accessibility guidelines and the ability to implement WCAG AA compliant components and styles. Technical Skill: Expert knowledge of Figma, including creating complex components with variants, properties, and interaction demos. Design integrity: High degree of design craft and polish. Communication: Documentation expertise and the ability to educate peers on all things design system. Demonstrated ability to effectively storytell in a variety of methods (visual, spoken language, etc.) Specific strengths: Strong skills in animation, prototyping, data visualization, and/or iconography preferred. At Gusto, we strive to provide rewards that empower employees to achieve their financial and personal goals. We offer competitive compensation packages with a strong emphasis on equity based compensation (ownership in Gusto). To learn more about Gusto's compensation philosophy and benefits offerings please view our Total Rewards Approach page.
Our cash compensation range for this role is $147,000/yr to $199,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $179,000/yr to $221,000/yr in San Francisco, Seattle & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
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