Top Design Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Own brand and motion design from concept through delivery across product launches, campaigns, education, events, and digital channels. Develop brand systems, motion guidelines, templates, and workflows that maintain consistency and improve production speed. Direct and evaluate AI-generated creative work, establish quality standards and guardrails, and collaborate with creative, marketing, product, and growth partners. The role requires strong visual craft, motion expertise, and the ability to balance strategic brand work with rapid execution.

Lead quantitative UX research across R&D, shaping product investment decisions through survey science, psychometrics, statistical modeling, segmentation, usability benchmarking, and AI experience evaluation. Partner with Data Science and senior executives to combine behavioral, attitudinal, and sentiment data. Establish research standards, mentor researchers, enable non-researchers, and advance AI-supported research practices.

Lead product design for Gusto’s Consumer and Business Banking products. Manage and grow a design team, establish shared rituals and planning practices, coach designers, define quality standards, and remain hands-on with high-impact work. Partner with product, engineering, risk, compliance, legal, data, and operations teams on regulated financial products. Develop career plans, coordinate cross-product experiences, and represent Banking’s design needs to senior leadership.

Lead product design for Gusto Retirement, partnering with Product, Engineering, Data, and Research to define strategy, prototype, test, and ship high-trust, compliant retirement experiences. Drive cohesive journeys across payroll and benefits, apply AI to accelerate prototyping, mentor designers, evolve the design system, and measure outcomes to boost activation, adoption, and retention.

Design and maintain Gusto’s Workbench design system, including components, patterns, token architecture, and theming. Partner with engineers on coded implementations, documentation, migration strategy, and accessibility. Help build AI tooling and LLM-readable documentation so designers and engineers can use the system correctly, and support the broader team through reviews, office hours, and async guidance.

As a Staff Product Designer, you'll lead the design strategy for contractor products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve user experiences and mentor fellow designers.

Lead UX vision and strategy across Money and Risk domains, define AI-first financial UX, drive cross-team opportunities, shape product strategy, do hands-on design work, mentor designers, and contribute scalable design system patterns.