Senior UX Designer, Workiva

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Workiva

Business data platform

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Workiva

Business data platform

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseComplianceAnalyticsData AnalysisCloud Computing

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
Sketch
Invision
Figma
Mid and Senior level
Amsterdam

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseComplianceAnalyticsData AnalysisCloud Computing

Company mission

Workiva’s mission is to power transparent reporting for a better world.

Role

Who you are

  • Your portfolio should demonstrate successful user-centred 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
  • 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
  • Less than 10% travel to participate in customer research or collaborate in other office locations
  • Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, not in a Workiva office

Desirable

  • 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

What the job involves

  • As a Senior User Experience Designer, you will be responsible for discovering and designing experiences that simplify complex work
  • You will leverage your experience with lean, user-centred design methods to gather insights about Parseport’s users and transform them into innovative, intuitive, and accessible experiences
  • Your experience makes you comfortable in ambiguity and relishes opportunities to discover the right solution on behalf of the user
  • You'll be a leader in a fast-paced product team, partnering closely with other designers, researchers, engineering, and product management to shape your product's vision
  • Continuous learning and staying updated with industry developments will be vital as you progress in this role
  • You'll join the Copenhagen team, a dynamic group of creative problem solvers specializing in regulatory reporting
  • We're committed to designing intuitive user experiences, helping customers transform XBRL and other structured data into shareable reports using the ParsePort platform
  • Craft intuitive user experiences, and influence product vision and direction
  • Partner with UX researchers to identify opportunities for customer insights and testing to utilize in defining constraints and solution ideas
  • Apply various UX methods and crafts 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 the product team to break down solutions and engage 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

Our take

For large-scale businesses, collecting and sharing data can be a complex and challenging process. Workiva solves this problem with its cloud-based data platform.

Workiva is one of the biggest players in the market, serving around 75% of Fortune 500 companies, including Google and Delta. Workiva's controlled, secure and audit-ready platform has maintained a clear edge over much of its competition.

Workiva's quality product and its commitment to transparency has made it a firm favourite with companies around the world. If it can maintain this, it stands to consolidate its impressive growth even further in the coming years.

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Insights

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back within 2 weeks

5% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Oct 2014

$0.7m

EARLY VC

Dec 2012

$30.7m

SERIES C

Total funding: $46.9m

Company benefits

  • A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
  • Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
  • 401k w/ match
  • Health, dental, and vision
  • Vacation accruals
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Volunteer time-off
  • Parental leave
  • Travel & accident insurance
  • Paid holidays
  • Work remotely
  • Discount programs
  • Health and wellness
  • Pet-friendly atmosphere
  • Choose from additional plans that cover legal expenses, stolen identity, or even your pet's health

Company values

  • Customer success: Always delight our customers.
  • Innovation: Keep creating solutions and finding better ways.
  • Trust: Always rely on each other.
  • Inclusion: Support a diverse community where we all belong.
  • Integrity: Do the right thing, every time.
  • Accountability: Be responsible for your success and failure.
  • Collaboration: Share resources and work together.

Company HQ

Holborn, London, UK

Leadership

Marty Vanderploeg

(CEO, not founder)

Previously worked as a Professor at Iowa State University. Founded Engineer Animation Inc. in 1990.

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