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