As a Staff Designer at Workiva, you'll take the lead in shaping experiences across teams and organizational pillars through creativity and collaboration. Our staff designers are central to driving product design excellence and are true end-to-end craftspeople, owning the entire design process from concept to execution.

In this role, you'll design experiences that empower our customers to deliver integrated, assured reporting with confidence on a global scale. You'll lead the creation of platform-wide solutions, playing a key role in how users interact with our products.

You’ll take on high-impact challenges, working closely with cross-functional teams to create innovative, user-centered solutions. As an end-to-end product designer, you’ll own the process from discovery through delivery—turning unclear opportunities into seamless, engaging experiences. Along the way, you’ll mentor designers and collaborate with product managers and engineers, driving strategic design decisions that shape entire product areas. Your clear communication will ensure alignment across teams and leadership, ensuring successful execution.

What You'll Do

Lead user experience design for your product area, driving innovation and crafting intuitive, customer-delighting solutions

Define and evangelize a design vision, aligning stakeholders and fostering a shared sense of purpose

Apply design systems thinking, leveraging reusable components to maintain visual and functional consistency across the platform

Prototype and test iteratively, ensuring designs meet both user needs and business objectives

Optimize for scalability, ensuring design solutions can grow and adapt with evolving business needs and user expectations

Collaborate with research to conduct user interviews and testing, turning insights into actionable design opportunities

Facilitate design ideation and collaboration, solving complex problems with creative, fresh approaches

Collaborate with engineering, maintaining high design quality across multiple product areas

Track success metrics, iterating on solutions post-launch to drive continuous improvement

Ensure consistency and quality across projects and platforms, maintaining a cohesive user experience

What You'll Need
Minimum Qualifications

6+ years of professional UX experience, with a track record of shipping successful products

Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience in Design, HCI, UX, Software Engineering, Psychology, or related fields

A portfolio that showcases strong design in delivered projects, with a focus on a solid design process and measurable outcomes that drive both user satisfaction and business success

Preferred Qualifications

Proven experience tackling complex, large-scale UX challenges

Strong leadership in cross-functional teams, including product management and engineering, within Lean UX/Agile environments

Mastery of design systems, particularly in medium- to large-scale organizations

A passion for user-centered design, with a portfolio showcasing business and user outcomes

Expertise in visual design, systems thinking, and user-centered practices

Experience mentoring and directing other designers

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills

Mastery of design and prototyping tools (we use Figma)

Ability to collaborate effectively with geographically distributed teams

Travel Requirements and Working Conditions

Up to 20% travel required

Reliable internet access for remote work

Flexibility to collaborate across global time zones as needed

How You’ll Be Rewarded

✅ Salary range in the US: $120,000.00 - $204,000.00

✅ 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.

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.
 

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