Amy Thibodeau

Come work with us on the Gusto Design team: gusto-design.notion.site/Design-the-fut…

We’re building such a great team @GustoHQ ! 🚀🚀🚀New head of brand creative, service design, and research — I’m going to learn so much from this brilliant people! linkedin.com/posts/amythibo…

It’s that time of year when being a leader means emerging from hibernation to publish: • Top 5 Trends • What’s Dead • What’s Inevitable • Predictions for 2026 Love the confidence. But everything is changing at the speed of light and no one knows. Happy holidays!

@soigomaa Under the Tuscan Sun

please recommend some movies that feel like therapy, pls pls. movies that make you realize so many things in life. movies that make you cry so hard, that are gut-wrenching yet cleansing, and that gently remind you of your most vulnerable side

You’re invited! On Sept 16 we’re hosting our Summer Showcase in San Francisco. Hear from inspiring entrepreneurs, explore resilience + AI, and get first looks at Gusto’s latest tools. (Video featuring @edawerd)

Welcome to the Guideline team!

@darrinhenein Holy crap friend. End of an era! I’m so grateful our paths crossed.

After almost 10 years, I’ve decided it’s time for something new. My time at Shopify has truly been life-changing — it’s been a place of growth, challenge, creativity, and lifelong relationships. I’ve had the privilege of working with some of the most talented, thoughtful, and driven people I’ve ever met. I’m incredibly proud of what we built together, and for the experience I get to take with me. To everyone I’ve worked with: thank you. I am eternally grateful for the support, guidance, trust and opportunity that has been so graciously offered to me over almost a decade. True story — what started as a question "hey, do you know anything about hardware" (to which I answered honestly: no) lead to a multi-year initiative to hire a team, develop a strategy and deliver a portfolio of Red Dot award-winning payments devices. From introducing the concept of sales channels to Shopify, leading the design teams who built the first versions of Frenzy and Arrive (which became Shop), standing up a sibling design system to Polaris specifically for Retail environments (which is still used today), redesigning the entire POS platform (apps, platform, hardware, packaging, and the first physical Shopify spaces), and later leading the team responsible for merchant acquisition, onboarding, guidance and success in the admin — to name just a few — it's hard to think of a part of Shopify's platform that I didn't have the privilege to lead or influence. I'm also grateful for the opportunity I had to influence the culture: from introducing critique standards, guidelines and frameworks for quality, redesigning our hiring process, supporting the transition to remote work, influencing the constant evolution of the design practice over the years, speaking at our annual Summit conference multiple times, and working externally with partners, merchants and acquisitions. I’m leaving with a full heart, gratitude for the trust and opportunities granted to me again and again, and a conviction that everyone deserves to experience entrepreneurship. For now, I'm heads down building a few ideas, getting hands on again with the craft, and spending some time this summer with my family. I'm excited to discover what could be next for me — hit me up if you're interested in connecting over what that might be 💚

Well played.

Design was always about more than colors. This is a subtweet. 😬

@superiorviaduct hey there! I bought the Cindy Lee vinyl from you in December and haven’t received. Have emailed you 2x and no reply. Could someone there please help?

Our Chief Design Officer, @amythibodeau, wrote about this in Fast Company, breaking down what it means to build AI that actually helps people. Read her full piece here: fastcompany.com/91282010/why-t…

The Gusto Payday Challenge is here! 💰 Tell us how you'd spend an extra paycheck and you could win up to $500! Be sure to tag @gustohq and #GustoPaydayChallenge

Can’t wait to celebrate with the crew in Miami in a few weeks!

We’ve been working on some great stuff for our customers! I’m really proud of our teams and excited for what all of this will enable for SMBs.

I am going to @KeyonnaBeach this week and oh my goodness, it can’t come soon enough.

Cecile Richards dedicated her life to protecting and expanding women’s rights. She never wavered in her commitment to ensuring that women had access to the reproductive health care they needed, and her leadership at Planned Parenthood led to the inclusion of important healthcare provisions in the Affordable Care Act. Women of all ages knew they could count on Cecile, and Michelle and I will always be grateful for her advocacy. We send all our love to Kirk, Lily, Hannah, Daniel, and all those who loved and admired her.

Hey friends! I’m going to keep this account open but will mostly be over at Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/amy.bs… (X seems to want to bugger up this link by my username is Amy so I’m easy to find). If you’re over there too, say hi.

People speak of hope as if it is this delicate, ephemeral thing made of whispers and spider's webs. It's not. Hope has dirt on her face, blood on her knuckles, the grit of the cobblestones in her hair, and just spat out a tooth as she rises for another go.

I'm so so proud of this 🔥 Across ALL categories of software small businesses use, @GustoHQ was selected as THE BEST software product in 2024. So cool. Congratulations Gusties!

@JeffTheSigma @webflow Congrats Jeff!

I’m thrilled to be joining @webflow, helping to bring development superpowers to everyone. As a long time user of webflow whose been empowered to build on the web, I excited to help more people do the same. Let’s go! 🚀