Workiva
Location
Ames, IA | United States
Job description
Summary
As a Staff User Experience (UX) Designer for Governance, Risk, and Compliance solutions at Workiva, you will be responsible for designing SOX and audit products and solutions.
But what is that?
SOX is a regulatory framework that sets standards for financial reporting, while audit products are software tools that help organizations comply with SOX requirements by facilitating efficient and effective internal control monitoring and auditing processes. You’ll be designing products that drive efficiency for internal auditors.
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 delight our customers. 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 the work of other UX designers and product managers related to your product area and make critical group-level design decisions. You should be able to effectively communicate the vision across teams and with upper management to execute and ensure efficient, effective, and aligned product goals.
What You’ll Do:
Ensure intuitive user experiences across a defined product area, driving innovation, and delighting customers
Partner with research to lead customer interviews and testing to synthesize into design constraints and ideas
Facilitate empathy building activities, ideation, and design critique. Look past obvious solutions to solve deeper problems
Craft vision and evangelize to stakeholders
Prototyping and testing are core to your design process, iteratively progressing toward the desired business and user outcomes
Drive planning for cross-product, multi-team, multi-designer projects
Proactively partner with engineering across multiple product areas to drive product quality
Ensure success metrics are defined and revisited after deployment in order to iterate on delivered solutions
Work closely with Principal UXD to define a strategy and direction across all of GRC
Provide consistency in experience and quality across multiple solutions
Build strong connections and accuracy between the projects and the OKRs
What You'll Need:
Minimum qualifications:
6+ years of professional UX experience, shipping multiple successful products
Undergraduate Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in a related field
Related degree fields include Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience Design, Software Engineering, Psychology, and Technical Communication
Portfolio demonstrating a strong design process is required
Preferred qualifications:
Show large and complex work where significant UX improvements were reimagined
Experience leading alongside engineering and product management in a Lean UX / Agile software development environment
Passion for making high-quality, user-centered products and a demonstrable portfolio to prove business and user outcomes.
Experience directing and mentoring other designers
Expert-level, user-centered design skills and systems thinking
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Exceptional interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills
Innovative thinking, empathy, and a desire to continuously learn and evolve
Excellent influential skills when collaborating with multiple teams and 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
Travel Requirement
Travel is expected up to 25% to participate in customer research or collaborate in other office locations (depending on project assignment)
Working Conditions & Physical Requirements
Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, not in a Workiva office
How You’ll Be Rewarded:
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.
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.
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 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:
Learn more about 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
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Workiva supports employees in working where they work best - either from an office or remotely from any location within their country of employment.
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