Senior UX Designer, Workiva
$102-173k
Plus discretionary bonus typically paid annually and Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
More information about location
Software for sustainability, GRC & financial reporting
Job no longer available
Software for sustainability, GRC & financial reporting
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$102-173k
Plus discretionary bonus typically paid annually and Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To power transparent reporting for a better world.
Role
Who you are
- Your experience makes you comfortable in ambiguity and relishes opportunities to discover the right solution on behalf of the user
- Your portfolio should demonstrate successful user-centered design projects in highly technical environments, success in cross-functional collaboration, as well as a proven track record of driving positive results for complex software platforms
- Minimum of 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
- Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, not in a Workiva office
Desirable
- Related fields of education may include Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience Design, Software Engineering, Psychology, and Technical Communication
- Experience iteratively shipping product with engineers and product teams in a collaborative, Lean UX / Agile software development environment
- Proven skills and passion for high-quality interaction design
- Strong application and judgment 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
- Comfort leading in a fast-paced, highly dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders
- Solid with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, XD, Sketch, InVision, etc
- Ability to create and maintain working relationships with a geographically distributed team
What the job involves
- 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'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
- Continuous learning and staying updated with industry developments will be vital as you progress in this role
- 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
Our take
For large-scale businesses, collecting and sharing data can be a complex and challenging process. Workiva solves this problem with its AI-powered data platform.
Workiva is one of the biggest players in the market, serving around 75% of Fortune 500 companies, including Google and Delta. Workiva's controlled, secure and audit-ready platform has maintained a clear edge over much of its competition.
Workiva's quality product and its commitment to transparency has made it a firm favourite with companies around the world. If it can maintain this, it stands to consolidate its impressive growth even further in the coming years.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2014
$0.7m
EARLY VC
Dec 2012
$30.7m
SERIES C
Total funding: $46.9m
Company HQ
Ames, IA
Leadership
Julie Iskow
(CEO)Julie joined Workiva in 2019 sa COO/President and became CEO in 2023. Previously, she served as the CTO at Medidate Solutions and as the CIO at WageWorks.
David Haila
(CTO)David has been at Workiva since 2009, joining the team as a Senior Software Engineer. Since then, he has held a number of roles and became CTO in 2023.
Jill Klindt
(CFO & EVP)Jill has been at Workiva since 2008, joining as a Controller before holding a number of roles and becoming CFO & EVP in 2023. Previously, she held Financial roles at Financial Intelligence, Wells Fargo Financial, CitiMortgage, and Principal Financial Group.
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