Staff UX Designer, Workiva
Platform Design
$120-204k
Software for sustainability, GRC & financial reporting
Job no longer available
Software for sustainability, GRC & financial reporting
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$120-204k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To power transparent reporting for a better world.
Role
Who you are
- Requires a minimum of 6 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 4 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 2 years of experience
- Experience leading alongside engineering and product management in a Lean UX / Agile software development environment
- Passion for making high-quality, user-centered products and a demonstrable portfolio to prove it
- Experience directing and mentoring other designers
- Related fields include Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience Design, Software Engineering, Psychology, and Technical Communication
- Travel is expected up to 25% to participate in to participate in customer research or collaborate in other office locations (depending on project assignment)
- Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, not in a Workiva office
What the job involves
- The Staff User Experience (UX) Designer you will drive the user experience across a defined area of the Workiva platform, taking lead on high-impact challenges that ultimately delight our customers
- Ensure intuitive user experiences across a defined product area, driving innovation, and delighting customers
- Partner with research to lead customer interviews and testing to synthesize into design constraints and ideas
- Facilitate empathy building activities, ideation, and design critique. Look past obvious solutions to solve deeper problems
- Craft vision and evangelize to stakeholders
- Prototyping and testing are core to your design process, iteratively progressing toward the desired business and user outcomes
- Drive planning for cross-product, multi-team, multi-designer projects
- Proactively partner with engineering across multiple product areas to drive product quality
- Ensure success metrics are defined and revisited after deployment in order to iterate on delivered solutions
- Coach and mentor other designers
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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