Senior User Experience Designer - Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)

| Scottsdale, AZ, USA +80 more | Remote
Employer Provided Salary: 102,000-173,000 Annually
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Summary

As a Senior User Experience (UX) Designer for GRC solutions at Workiva, you will be responsible for designing SOX/audit products and solutions. 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 raise the quality of our products and customer satisfaction.

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 your work with other UX designers to make critical group-level design decisions. You should be able to effectively communicate your concepts and vision across teams.

Your portfolio should demonstrate successful user-centered design projects in highly technical environments, success in cross-functional collaboration, as well as a proven track record of driving positive results for complex software platforms. Continuous learning and staying updated with industry developments will be vital as you progress in this role. 

What You'll Do

  • Crafts intuitive user experiences for product area, influencing product vision and direction.

  • Partner with UX researchers to identify opportunities for customer insights and testing to be utilized in defining constraints and solution ideas.

  • Apply various UX methods and craft artifacts that efficiently facilitate collaboration, team alignment, and gather feedback.

  • Communicate and present concepts, insights, and outcomes to various stakeholders.

  • Collaborate with the UX team to expand and extend our design/content patterns, research library, and UI components and champion their use throughout the product.

  • Drives design process by planning, managing, and communicating priorities, progress, and milestones.

  • Facilitate development of high-quality designs by proactively partnering with engineers and product team to break down solutions and engaging in testing activities.

  • Ensure success metrics are defined and revisited after deployment in order to iterate on delivered solutions.

  • Reliably takes initiative to share growing knowledge, best practices, feedback, and insights with the team.

What You'll Need

Minimum qualifications

  • Minimum of 4+ years of professional UX experience, shipping multiple products

  • Portfolio demonstrating strong design process, quality and outcomes is required

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

Preferred qualifications:

  • Related fields of education may include Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience Design, Software Engineering, Psychology, and Technical Communication

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

  • Proven skills and passion for high-quality interaction design

  • Strong application and judgment applying user-centered design principles, methods and process

  • Excellent team and stakeholder communication skills

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

  • Strong interpersonal, feedback, and collaboration skills

  • Experimental and innovative mindset, embracing and incorporating feedback

  • Comfort leading in a fast-paced, highly dynamic environment with multiple 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

Working Conditions & Travel Requirements

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

  • Around or below 10% travel to participate in customer research or collaborate in other office locations

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 [email protected].


Workiva employees are required to undergo comprehensive security and privacy training tailored to their roles, ensuring adherence to company policies and regulatory standards.

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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An Insider's view of Workiva

What's something quirky about your company?

I love being at a company that not only encourages quirky culture, but also celebrates it! Whether it be taking a day off from work for my birthday, our Annual Giving Campaign Pie Toss, or Maker’s Challenge (a team-based competition) Workiva offers me so many unique opportunities to bring my authentic and best self to work.

Kent

Senior Software Engineer

How do you collaborate with other teams in the company?

Solution Engineers collaborate with many teams to ensure the success of deals. We work with sales to drive discovery and demos, marketing on messaging and documentation relevant to the industry today, product to bring context to functionality requests, and services and customer support to ensure the post sales satisfaction of our customers.

Tayla

Manager of Solution Engineering

How has your career grown since starting at the company?

Workiva was my second job in tech and I came in at an entry level position. Over the last 10+ years, my career has grown beyond anything I could have imagined. After a lot of hard work, building strong relationships, a ton of learning, and advocating for the greater good at Workiva every day, I now lead the functional area I started in.”

Amanda

Vice President, Head of R&D PMO

How do you make yourself accessible to the rest of the team?

I want employees to feel comfortable to express themselves and reach out to me directly to share their perspective at any time. Aside from Q&A at our regular all-company meetings, our “Ask an Exec” forum is an easy way to submit questions. And my inbox is always open – I appreciate hearing from employees about what matters most to them.

Julie

CEO

How would you describe the company’s work-life balance?

Workiva offers a remarkable work-life blend, embracing personal needs with flexible schedules. Whether for school drop-offs, vet visits, or designated volunteer time-off, this trust-driven culture is felt throughout the organization. This allows employees to create their most productive environment and in turn deliver the best results.

Molly

Senior Corporate Programs Manager

What are Workiva Perks + Benefits

Workiva Benefits Overview

Workiva offers competitive health and wellness benefits and perks, including a medical plan that offers paid premiums for employees, generous PTO and paid time to volunteer in the community. We have a flexible and casual work environment that also offers 12 weeks of paid parental leave, the ability to work remotely, and to be able to bring your dog to work with you in some of our office locations.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Day off for your birthday
Employee awards
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
"Work Where You Work Best" - whether that’s in or out of our offices. 🌍
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
We have seven employee resource groups that are formed around a shared interest or common goal. These groups are designed to support their members and cultivate a more diverse & inclusive workspace.
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance + Wellness
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Transgender health care benefits
Wellness days
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Company equity
Employee stock purchase plan
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave
Generous parental leave
We provide up to 12 weeks of parental leave for the primary caretaker. Workiva also provides 12 weeks of leave for the secondary caretaker.
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Fertility benefits
Vacation + Time Off
Generous PTO
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Paid holidays
Flexible time off
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Hardship benefits
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
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Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
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Pet friendly
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Mother's room
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Professional Development
Job training & conferences
Workiva offers employees professional development opportunities like Onsite training courses, The ability to attend job related conferences and seminars.
Promote from within
Continuing education available during work hours

Additional Perks + Benefits

When you join Workiva, you get a world-class benefits package for you and your family. On day one, every full-time employee starts with company stock, vacation, and the opportunity to enroll in our discounted stock purchase plan. We offer comprehensive health, dental, and vision care plans; life and disability insurance; and 12 weeks of paid parental leave and return-to-work post parental leave program. We allow employees to work where they work best, whether that's remotely or in one of our office locations.

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