Principal Product Designer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Define and spearhead the long-term vision for user experience across the Workiva Platform.

• Ensure alignment of design direction with product strategy, platform architecture, and business objectives.

• Conceptualize AI-driven experiences, including generative interfaces, intelligent automation, recommendations, and decision-support workflows.

• Rethink and redesign workflows for intricate enterprise use cases.

• Design interaction points that incorporate human oversight, review, escalation, and decision-making.

• Lead discovery efforts on complex, cross-functional issues utilizing research, product insights, data, and technical constraints.

• Establish reusable patterns, interaction models, and information architecture across a multi-product ecosystem.

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership on platform direction, service design, data flows, and implementation choices.

• Guide the evolution of design systems and governance.

• Mentor Lead and Senior Designers while enhancing the design culture.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in product design, UX, or related fields, with a focus on platform or enterprise products.

• Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, or a related field, or 8 years of experience along with a Master’s degree, or a PhD with 6 years of experience.

• Demonstrated success in delivering products from inception to market.

• Proven ability to influence product strategy, experience direction, and technical decision-making.

• Experience in establishing UX best practices for emerging technologies or uncertain problem areas.

• Strong track record of fostering innovation in user interface design through experimentation, new tools and processes, and collaboration with design, engineering, data science, and research teams.

• Familiarity with AI/ML and agentic technologies.

• Extensive knowledge of user-centered design methods applied to enterprise workflows.

• Experience in designing AI-powered product experiences and human-in-the-loop workflows.

• Capability to leverage AI within the design process for discovery, prototyping, and synthesis.

• High technical fluency across platform ecosystems, APIs, and design systems.

• Experience working in large-scale Agile settings.

• Reliable high-speed internet connection for remote work.

🏝️ Benefits

• A discretionary bonus typically awarded annually.

• Restricted Stock Units provided at the time of hire.

• 401(k) matching contribution.

• Comprehensive employee benefits package.

• Option to work remotely from any location within the employee’s country of employment.

• Up to 25% travel required.