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Product Design Leader, Banking
Job in
California, Moniteau County, Missouri, 65018, USA
Listed on 2026-09-09
Listing for:
Jobtailor
Full Time, Part Time
position Listed on 2026-09-09
Job specializations:
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Management
Banking & Finance -
Finance & Banking
FinTech, Banking & Finance
Job Description & How to Apply Below
- Manage an initial team of 3 designers and hire to build the team
- Build rituals, hiring pipeline, and planning cadence across Consumer Banking and Business Banking
- Coach designers working on both the established Wallet product and the 0-to-1 SMB Banking effort
- Co-create goals and success metrics with product and engineering partners
- Translate strategy into clear scopes, sequences, and milestones
- Raise quality standards through critique and review
- Stay hands-on with high-stakes design decisions, especially SMB Banking's path to beta
- Partner with Banking's PM and engineering leads, plus Risk, Compliance, Legal, Data, and Ops
- Ensure Banking products fit cohesively into Gusto's broader financial ecosystem
- Coordinate with design and product counterparts on adjacent pods such as Accounting and Payments
- Build individualized career development plans for direct reports
- Represent Banking's design needs to senior design leadership
- 10+ years of product design experience
- 4+ years of people management experience, ideally with senior designers or higher
- Established manager with prior player-coach experience
- Experience managing designers across products at different stages ideally
- Portfolio and management track record showing high-quality work in consumer or business financial products; fintech, banking, or financial platforms strongly preferred
- Experience partnering with Risk, Compliance, or Legal on regulated financial products is a strong plus
- Experience incorporating AI tools and practices into how a whole design team works
- Ability to work from a Gusto office on designated days approximately 2–3 days per week when based in Denver, San Francisco, or New York City
- Secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection when approved to work from a non-office location
Demonstrates extensive product design experience with a strong focus on managing and developing design teams in the fintech and banking sectors. Capable of translating strategic goals into actionable design plans while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
Highest-signal resume keywords- Product Design Experience
- People Management Experience
- Player-Coach Experience
- Experience with Risk and Compliance
- Incorporating AI Tools into Design
- Product Design
- Design Management
- High-Quality Work in Financial Products
- Design Critique and Review
- Goal Setting and Success Metrics
- Design Strategy Translation
- Career Development Planning
- Hands-On Design Decision Making
- Team Building
- Portfolio Development
- Coaching
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Leadership
- Critique
- Fintech
- Banking
- Financial Products
- Consumer Banking
- Business Banking
- Regulated Financial Products
- AI Tools
- Design Software
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