User Experience Designer
Summary
As an User Experience Designer you will be responsible for the discovery and design of experiences that simplify complex work. You'll be embedded in a fast-paced product team, collaborating closely with other designers, researchers, engineering, and product management. You will utilize lean, user-centered design methods to gather insights about Workiva's users and transform them into innovative, intuitive, and accessible experiences.
This role may be fantastic for you if:
- You are a communicative team player
- You like working in an embedded agile team with other designers
- Cross collaboration with research, product management, and engineering is something that brings you joy
- Happiness is diving through the depths of user feedback to develop solutions, sketch, refine and test prototypes - plus follow them through to high performing experiences for our users
What You'll Do
- Rapidly design, test, and solicit feedback on experiences to iteratively improve solutions for defined opportunities and user needs
- Collaborate closely with UX researchers to understand and empathize with users' processes and needs, and later test assumptions and solutions
- Communicate and visualize user insights and solution concepts via right fidelity artifacts (ex. personas, process maps, concept diagrams, flows, problem statements, sketches, wireframes, prototypes, and others)
- Collaborate with other designers to leverage and evolve existing patterns and design system to ensure we are building a harmonious, consistent ecosystem of products
- Work cross-functionally within product teams to drive projects forward by planning, managing, and communicating priorities, progress, and milestones
- Facilitate development of designs by collaborating with engineers and product team from concept through deployment
- Define success for solutions with product management and research and follow up on deployed solutions to inform future iteration
What You'll Need
Education
- Undergraduate Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in a related field.
- Related fields include Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience Design, Software Engineering, Psychology, and Technical Communication
- Solid skills and strong passion for detailed interaction design
- Skilled in user-centered design principles, methods and process
- Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills
- Solid analytical and problem solving skills
- Strong interpersonal, negotiation, and collaboration skills
- Experimental and iterative mindset, embracing and incorporating feedback
- Comfort adapting in a fast-paced, highly-dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders
- Skilled 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
- 1+ years experience in user experience design or a related field
- Experience working with engineers and product teams in a collaborative, Lean UX / Agile software development environment
- Portfolio demonstrating strong design process is required
- Experience building right-fidelity prototypes preferred
- Less than 10% travel to participate in customer research or collaborate in other office locations
- Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, not in a Workiva office
How You'll Be Rewarded
- Base Pay Range in Colorado: $86,000 - $115,000
- A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
- Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
- 401(k) match
The base pay range represents the low and high end of the hiring range for this job. Actual pay will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to relevant skills, experience, and capabilities.
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 Employee Resource Groups, (Women in Tech, Women in Sales, Ethnic Diversity, Veterans, Rainbow (LGBTQ), Remote Employees, Caregiving) 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.
Workiva is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. To request assistance with the application process, please email [email protected].
Workiva supports employees in working where they work best - either from an office or remotely from any location within their country of employment.