Summary

As a Senior User Experience (UX) Designer for GRC solutions at Workiva, you will be responsible for designing SOX/audit products and solutions. Your role will involve creating robust artifacts and driving the user experience across a defined area of the Workiva platform. You will take the lead on high-impact challenges that ultimately raise the quality of our products and customer satisfaction.

Your expertise in leading product discovery will help you transform ambiguous opportunities into innovative experiences that solve deeper user needs. In addition, you will coordinate your work with other UX designers to make critical group-level design decisions. You should be able to effectively communicate your concepts and vision across teams.

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. Continuous learning and staying updated with industry developments will be vital as you progress in this role. 

What You'll Do

• 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 be utilized in defining constraints and solution ideas.

• Apply various UX methods and craft 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.

What You'll Need

Minimum qualifications

• 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.

Preferred qualifications:

• 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

Working Conditions & Travel Requirements

• Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, not in a Workiva office.

• Around or below 10% travel to participate in customer research or collaborate in other office locations

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How You’ll Be Rewarded

Salary range in the US: $102,000.00 - $173,000.00

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 [email protected].

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