Principal Product Designer - AI-Driven Platform (Remote)

Workiva Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

RSUs

401(k) match

Benefits package

Job summary

Workiva Inc. seeks a Principal Product Designer to lead experience strategy for the Workiva Platform. This senior role focuses on AI experiences, systems thinking, and workflow transformation, shaping long-term vision and how products are built, scaled, and evolved.

You will drive platform UX strategy, envision AI-powered experiences, and redesign workflows across complex enterprise use cases. Collaboration with product, engineering, and research will define human-in-the-loop moments and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product design, UX, or related fields, with 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).

Responsibilities

• Lead platform UX strategy: Define and drive the long-term user experience vision across the Workiva Platform, aligning design direction with product strategy, platform architecture, and business goals.
• Shape AI experiences: Lead the charge in envisioning AI-powered experiences, including generative interfaces, intelligent automation, recommendations, and decision-support workflows.
• Reimagine workflows: Rethink and redesign existing workflows to create simpler, faster, and more intuitive experiences across complex enterprise use cases.
• Design human-in-the-loop moments: Determine where human oversight, review, escalation, and decision-making should remain central in AI-enabled workflows, and design those interaction points with clarity and trust.
• Solve complex system challenges: Lead discovery across ambiguous, cross-functional problems by combining research, product insight, data, and technical constraints into scalable solutions.
• Drive experience architecture: Establish reusable patterns, interaction models, and information architecture that scale across a multi-product ecosystem.
• Influence technical direction: Partner closely with Product and Engineering leadership to shape platform direction, service design, data flows, and implementation choices that affect user experience.
• Advance design systems and governance: Guide the evolution of design systems to support consistency, flexibility, and innovation at scale.
• Mentor senior talent: Coach Lead and Senior Designers, raise craft standards, and strengthen design culture across the organization.

Skills

Platform UX strategy

AI experiences

Human-in-the-loop

Design systems

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's in Design or HCI

Job description

Workiva Inc. seeks a Principal Product Designer to lead experience strategy for the Workiva Platform. This senior role focuses on AI experiences, systems thinking, and workflow transformation, shaping long-term vision and how products are built, scaled, and evolved.

You will drive platform UX strategy, envision AI-powered experiences, and redesign workflows across complex enterprise use cases. Collaboration with product, engineering, and research will define human-in-the-loop moments and