Staff Recruiter, Design & Specialized Tech

At Gusto, we are builders, and the direction the business is heading has elevated the bar for how we show up and who we hire. This role brings in that builder-minded design talent across Product Design, Design Systems, Content Design, UX Research, Service Design, Brand Studio and Creative, and Design Operations. We're looking for a Staff Design Recruiter who brings the versatility and eagerness to flex into Product Management, Data, or other technical hiring areas.

What will make you successful in this role:

You’ve recruited designers as your specialty. You are comfortable talking craft with senior Design leaders, and you already have a network and presence in the design community.

You’re an AI-fluent talent advisor. You leverage AI to shape search strategy, surface the market truth, and push back with evidence while balancing the true needs of the business. You don't just use AI, you build the agents and SKILLs that carry that advisory judgment to the whole team, so everyone moves further together.

You take an always-on approach to talent. To you, talent acquisition and relationship management are one and the same. You consistently find bar raisers and nurture relationships long before there's an open requisition.

SpecTech is the "specialized tech" recruiting team inside Gusto's Invite (talent acquisition) org. We hire builders who are responsible for Gusto's product, particularly Designers, Product Managers and Data professionals.

We don't just fill requisitions. We're talent advisors who partner closely with hiring leaders on complex searches, work sourcing-first, and are data driven. We move fast, default to warmth, and hold ourselves to a high bar on candidate experience because we believe that how someone is treated in our interview process is part of the Gusto product experience.

Here's what you'll do day-to-day

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