Principal Product Designer

Role Overview

Join Workiva as a Principal Product Designer to lead and shape user experience strategy across multiple products within the Workiva Platform. You will drive end-to-end UX from discovery through delivery, while continuously optimizing outcomes using clear success metrics.

Key Missions / Responsibilities

• Lead UX strategy across multiple products, defining experience direction from discovery through delivery and continuous optimization.
• Uncover user needs (explicit and latent) through research, stakeholder engagement, and systems-level analysis.
• Translate insights into scalable workflows, shaping cohesive, ecosystem-level experiences.
• Mentor senior designers and elevate craft standards to ensure consistent, high-quality UX across teams.
• Ensure UX alignment with business goals.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional UX/product design experience with a track record of shipping successful products.
• Mastery-level Figma skills and strong user-centered design expertise.
• Strong systems thinking and visual design capabilities.
• Deep understanding of user-centered design principles, frameworks, and methodologies applied across the product lifecycle.
• Strong analytical skills to use data/analytics to inform design decisions.
• Expert communication and stakeholder influence skills.
• Reliable internet access for remote work.
• Portfolio demonstrating expert design aptitude.
• Experience leveraging AI in UX as a force multiplier (discovery, prototyping, research synthesis, workflow modeling) and ability to design responsible AI-powered experiences.
• Experience designing AI-experiences that turn machine intelligence (e.g., LLMs, recommendations, automation, predictive models) into usable, trustworthy interactions.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.

Nice-to-Haves

• Undergraduate degree (or equivalent education/experience) in a related field (stated as a requirement/equivalent).