Staff Product Designer

$120,000 - $204,000/Yr

Workiva - Ames, IA

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Ames, IA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

As a Staff Product Designer at Workiva, you will lead the design of user experiences across various teams and organizational pillars, focusing on creativity and collaboration. This role emphasizes end-to-end design ownership, from concept to execution, ensuring that the solutions empower customers to deliver integrated reporting confidently on a global scale. You will tackle high-impact challenges, mentor other designers, and collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to drive strategic design decisions that shape product areas.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice-to-haves

• 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.

Benefits

• Salary range in the US: $120,000.00 - $204,000.00
• A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
• Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
• 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package