Senior User Experience Designer

We’re looking for a highly collaborative and technically skilled Senior User Experience (UX) Designer to join Workiva’s Carbon team. In this role, you will work closely with our design, product, and sustainability experts to gather insights, understand technical needs, and define design requirements. As part of a team of designers, you will craft user flows and interfaces while also contributing to UX strategy through internal insight gathering, user testing, design system oversight, and UX best practices. You will collaborate closely with our engineers and may also be responsible for developing and coding prototypes. There are additional opportunities to conduct research, aggregate and analyze design trends, and incorporate marketing and brand insights to develop user profiles and design standards.

Workiva Carbon is a newly launched product within Workiva, resulting from the acquisition of Sustain.Life. Workiva Carbon centralizes companies’ carbon accounting, carbon management, and decarbonization programs, allowing them to calculate their carbon footprint, set science-based targets, and simplify climate disclosures.  

What You’ll Do

• Work on large, complex, and technical projects with a high degree of ambiguity 

• Use design practices to drive clarity towards balanced solutions 

• Foster a culture of collaboration within the design team and across functions 

• Connect and integrate with other Workiva products, tools, and teams, including UX Design, UX Research, and Design Systems 

• Evolve and apply our design system to interfaces 

• Create mockups and prototypes from multiple perspectives using best-in-class tools, methods, and processes 

• Enhance usability, accessibility, responsiveness, and other design properties through execution 

• Document your designs thoroughly and effectively for diverse audiences 

• Advocate for user needs in your designs while balancing technical constraints and business requirements 

• Create and model systems including data, navigation, and interactions 

• Consider the big picture while frequently delving into project details 

• Develop tools and processes for designers and engineers to engage with the design system 

• Support earlier-career designers through thoughtful critique and encouragement of UX best practices 

What You’ll Need

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional UX experience, having shipped multiple products 

• Portfolio demonstrating strong design processes, quality, and outcomes 

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in a related field 

• Experience working on a diverse set of complex, data-intensive digital products and services 

Preferred Qualifications

• Comfort working on features that are quantitative and technical in nature (e g , carbon calculators) 

• Ability to work quickly and thoughtfully, as our team operates as a startup within a larger company 

• Well-rounded digital design skills with a primary focus on system and interaction design and information architecture, and secondary abilities in graphic/visual design and research 

• Experience iteratively shipping products with engineers and product teams in a collaborative, Lean UX/Agile software development environment 

• Ability to balance specific product needs with broader component and pattern applications for multiple products 

• Responsiveness to direction and ability to work with diverse people from different disciplines to achieve outcomes 

• Ability to be strategic and outcome-oriented and present your work with a critical eye to the business 

• Proficiency in relevant tools and an interest in exploring new tools to stay on the cutting edge

• Demonstrated skills with modern web development platforms and tools

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills for effective collaboration and clear communication of requirements, requests, and responses

Travel Requirements and Working Conditions

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

• Up to 10% travel

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 talentacquisition@workiva.com.  

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