Senior Staff User Experience Designer

SummaryAs a Senior Staff User Experience (UX) Designer, you’ll drive the user experience across a defined area of the Workiva platform. Your leadership will be instrumental in addressing challenging tasks that aim to delight our customers. Your expertise in guiding product discovery, navigating complex problem spaces, and informing strategy and execution will be invaluable. With a focus on systems thinking, you will not only connect the dots but also provide guidance and support to other designers in your product area, helping them make crucial design decisions at a group level. Furthermore, you will have the ability to develop visionary concepts that inspire possibilities and drive actionable next steps.What You'll DoHelp define our experience vision and strategies across the defined area of responsibility and effectively evangelize to stakeholders Tackle new and existing efforts to design scalable, cohesive, and elegant solutions for complex system-wide initiativesBuild strong partnerships to collaboratively define high quality solutions that balance customer and business needs Facilitate empathy building activities, ideation, and design critiqueLook past obvious solutions to solve deeper problems Coach and mentor other designers to improve the quality of work Proactively identify and contribute ideas as a catalyst for driving positive changeWhat You'll NeedSkills Expert level user-centered design skills and systems thinking Masterful facilitator and influencer with the ability to explain design decisions Expert with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, XD, Sketch, Axure, etc. Exceptional interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills Technical acumen to drive the right conversations across R&D Experience 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 4 years of experience Led user experience vision and strategy for large complex applications Passion for making high-quality, user-centered products and a demonstrable portfolio to prove it Experience directing and mentoring other designers Education B.A./B.S. degree in art, graphic design, HCI, or related field preferred, or equivalent experience. Travel Requirement Up to 10% to meet with geographically dispersed team members depending on proximity to Workiva officesHow You’ll Be Rewarded:Salary range in the US: $142,000.00 - $241,000.00A discretionary bonus typically paid annuallyRestricted Stock Units granted at time of hire401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits packageThe 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.Where You’ll WorkOur 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 Business Employee Resource Groups (Black, Hispanic, Asian, Women, Rainbow (LGBTQIA+), Veterans, Disabilities), Volunteering, Company wide celebrations, and moreWork-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.  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. Workiva supports employees in working where they work best - either from an office or remotely from any location within their country of employment.#LI-LP1