Principal Experience Designer – Visual Design, Design Systems

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $190k - $315k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

✍️ Graphics Designer

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Workiva

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2008

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Workiva is a cloud-based, AI-powered platform that unifies financial reporting, risk and compliance management, and sustainability reporting. It enables teams to connect data across systems, collaborate in real time, automate reporting (including XBRL tagging), and maintain auditability and traceability for regulated disclosures and assurance processes. Workiva serves large enterprises and finance, legal, audit, and sustainability teams to accelerate reporting, improve accuracy, and reduce risk.

📋 Description

• Define and evolve Unify’s visual language across typography, color, spacing, iconography, motion, and brand expression • Partner with the components sub-team and patterns and templates sub-team to apply visual design consistently across every asset • Partner with product design, product management, and engineering teams to translate product experience decisions faithfully from system to production • Maintain a scalable, semantic token architecture supporting consistent experiences across products and over time • Create and maintain a library of reference designs and full-screen examples demonstrating Unify in real product experiences • Own visual usage guidance and documentation for designers, engineers, and AI-assisted workflows • Establish ongoing evaluation of AI-generated designs and prototypes and strengthen tokens, examples, and guidance • Lead visual design for major conferences, executive presentations, product vision work, and marketing partnerships • Coach designers and influence cross-functional partners through feedback, principles, and visual storytelling

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in product design, visual design, UX, or related fields, including significant work on platform or enterprise products • Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, or a related field (or 8 years of experience and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 6 years of experience) • Portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual craft and ability to translate a visual point of view into scalable product systems • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted design or prototyping workflows • Experience defining or evolving a design system’s visual language, including tokens, components, patterns, and documentation • Strong ability to create compelling product narratives for senior leaders and high-visibility audiences • Experience partnering closely with engineers and working through tradeoffs between design intent, system health, and implementation • Track record of influencing and coaching teams without relying on formal authority • Experience building reference sites, design-system documentation, or machine-readable design guidance • Experience with semantic or multi-tier token systems, motion design, presentation design, or event experiences • Background in front-end development, developer tools, cross-platform systems, or highly regulated industries • Up to 20-25% travel required to meet with teams, partners, and customers • Reliable internet connection required for remote or hybrid work environments

🏖️ Benefits

• A discretionary bonus typically paid annually • Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire • 401(k) match • Comprehensive employee benefits package • Work remotely from any location within your country of employment or from an office • Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities • Comprehensive security and privacy training tailored to employees’ roles