Senior User Experience Designer

Posted Jun 8

Summary

As a Senior User Experience Designer, you will be responsible for discovering and designing experiences that simplify complex work. You will leverage your experience with lean, user-centered design methods to gather insights about Workiva's users and transform them into innovative, intuitive, and accessible experiences. You have the ability to navigate ambiguity with ease and relish opportunities to discover the right solution on behalf of the user. You'll be a leader in a fast-paced product team, partnering closely with other designers, researchers, engineering, and product management to shape your product's vision. You'll be in a new product area in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting space, an environment resembling a start-up, where a range of product and UX processes are required. Being able to assess and communicate how to approach user needs within existing business goals is what we're looking for.

What You'll Do

  • Crafts intuitive user experiences for product area, influencing product vision and direction.
  • Partner with UX researchers to identify opportunities for customer insights and testing to utilize in defining constraints and solution ideas.
  • Apply various UX methods and crafts artifacts that efficiently facilitate collaboration, team alignment, and gather feedback.
  • Communicate and present concepts, insights, and outcomes to various stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with the UX team to expand and extend our design/content patterns, research library, and UI components and champion their use throughout the product.
  • Drives design process by planning, managing, and communicating priorities, progress, and milestones.
  • Facilitate development of high-quality designs by proactively partnering with engineers and product team to break down solutions and engaging in testing activities.
  • Ensure success metrics are defined and revisited after deployment in order to iterate on delivered solutions.
  • Reliably takes initiative to share growing knowledge, best practices, feedback, and insights with the team.

What You'll Need

  • 4+ years of professional UX experience, shipping multiple products
  • Portfolio demonstrating strong design process, quality and outcomes is required
  • Undergraduate Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in a related field. Related fields may include Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience Design, Software Engineering, Psychology, and Technical Communication
  • Solid with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, XD, Sketch, Axure, etc.
  • Ability to create and maintain working relationships with a geographically distributed team
  • Experience iteratively shipping product with engineers and product teams in a collaborative, Lean UX / Agile software development environment
  • Strong application and judgement applying user-centered design principles, methods and process
  • Excellent team and stakeholder communication skills
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Strong interpersonal, feedback, and collaboration skills
  • Experimental and innovative mindset, embracing and incorporating feedback
  • Ability to lead in a fast-paced, highly dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders

Travel Requirement

  • Less than 10% travel to participate in customer research or collaborate in other office locations

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements

  • Access to reliable internet for remote work, not limited to a Workiva office.

How You’ll Be Rewarded:

  • Salary range in the US: 

$102,000.00 - $173,000.00

  • A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
  • Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
  • 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package

The salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job in the US. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and other relevant factors.

Where You’ll Work

Our values drive how we work and who we hire. You will see these values ingrained in how we support our customers, work with team members, build our products and in the work environment we’ve created.

  • Customer Success:  Always delight our customers.
  • Trust: Rely on each other. 
  • Integrity: Do the right thing, every time. 
  • Collaboration: Share resources and work together. 
  • Innovation: Keep creating solutions and finding better ways. 
  • Inclusion: Support a diverse community where we all belong. 
  • Accountability: Be responsible for your success and failure.

We believe our people are our greatest asset, and our unique culture gives employees the opportunity to make an impact everyday. We give our employees the freedom and resources they need—backed by our culture of collaboration and diverse thought—to continue innovating and breaking new ground. We hire talented people with a wide range of skills and experiences who are eager to tackle some of today’s most challenging problems.

At Workiva, you’ll enjoy: 

  • Fantastic Benefits: With coverage starting day one, choose from competitive health, dental, and vision plans on the largest physician networks available.
  • Casual Dress: Workiva has a casual work environment, most people wear jeans to the office.
  • Involvement: Ability to participate in Business Employee Resource Groups (Black, Hispanic, Asian, Women, Rainbow (LGBTQIA+), Veterans, Disabilities), Volunteering, Company wide celebrations, and more
  • Work-life Balance: We have competitive PTO, VTO and Parental Leave. We encourage employees to spend time enjoying life outside of work.

Learn more about life at Workiva: https://www.linkedin.com/company/workiva/

Learn more about benefits: https://www.workiva.com/careers/benefits

Workiva is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.  We believe that great minds think differently.  We value diversity of backgrounds, beliefs, and interests, and we recognize diversity as an important source of intellectual thought, varied perspective, and innovation.  Employment decisions are made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other protected characteristic.  We strongly encourage and welcome people from historically marginalized groups to apply.

Workiva is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. To request assistance with the application process, please email talentacquisition@workiva.com.

Workiva supports employees in working where they work best - either from an office or remotely from any location within their country of employment.

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