Senior Designer, Workiva

• 6+ years of professional design experience, with a portfolio that demonstrates strong craft across a range of formats, ideally including presentations, editorial or report design, and corporate communications
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of relevant career experience and expertise
• Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely and not in a Workiva office

Desirable

• The Senior Designer, Corporate Communications is a skilled, hands-on designer and the dedicated creative partner for our Corporate and Internal Communications teams
• Sitting within the Creative team in Marketing, this role covers a broad and varied portfolio, from employee newsletters, all-hands presentations, and digital signage to sustainability reports, annual reports, quarterly board decks, and investor day materials
• This is a high-craft, high-output role for a designer who takes real ownership of their work, thrives on variety, and understands the weight and precision that executive and corporate communications demand
• You'll work within and contribute to established design systems, collaborate closely with teams spanning our Corporate Communications arm day-to-day, and partner with colleagues across the Creative team to deliver consistently polished, on-brand work
• The Creative team is Workiva's centralised in-house creative function, sitting within Marketing and responsible for brand expression across the company
• We care about craft, consistency, and doing work that reflects the quality of what Workiva builds
• The team partners with functions across the business to ensure Workiva shows up with intention at every touchpoint, inside and out
• Join a forward-thinking team where 100% of marketing employees set annual AI goals and complete comprehensive AI training
• As we transition to a fully AI-embedded organization, Workiva is investing in its marketers to be best-in-class AI practitioners
• Design & Craft:
• Design and produce a wide range of corporate communications assets, including all-hands and town hall presentations, email and newsletter templates, digital signage, intranet visuals, print materials, sustainability reports, annual reports, quarterly board decks, and investor day materials
• Actively contribute to and iterate on the internal design system, scaling templates and component libraries to drive design consistency, quality and efficiency across the organization
• Translate complex, high-level corporate briefs into clear, precise, and visually compelling narratives, managing multiple high-priority projects simultaneously
• Collaborate with the Video & Motion Graphics team, providing briefs and creative direction to ensure visual cohesion on any video or animated assets
• Uphold a high standard of craft across typography, layout, data visualisation, and visual hierarchy, particularly for high-visibility, executive-level materials
• Stakeholder Partnership:
• Act as a trusted and responsive creative partner to the teams spanning our corporate communications arm
• Engage directly with stakeholders to break down ambiguous requirements, ask the right questions, recommend sustainable design solutions and deliver work that meets both creative and strategic goals
• Manage your own day-to-day project queues and priorities under broad objectives, requiring minimal day-to-day instruction while proactively communicating timelines and scoping risks
• Growth & Collaboration:
• Lead and participate in creative team reviews, providing mature, constructive feedback to level up the team's collective output
• Independently identify and implement improvements to shared templates, creative systems, and team ways of working
• Stay current with design trends and tools, and bring a continuous improvement mindset to your craft
• Adopt AI-enhanced practices to transform our creative engine:using generative tools to accelerate high-quality asset production, automating repetitive design and writing tasks, and leveraging performance metrics to drive data-informed decisions for maximum revenue impact