• Translate company strategy to operational goals and metrics for the team that serve to align and motivate employee performance
• Align with other teams and departments to analyze, monitor, forecast, and prioritize initiatives by organizational priorities and the strategic plan
• Build a strong, sustainable organization with high levels of employee engagement
• Attracting and developing superior talent and rewarding the superior performance of teams and individuals
• Create 3-5 year scaling strategy that ensures sufficient resources and staffing levels to support business needs
• Provides leaders with coaching on their design decisions, people management, and communication skills
• Give feedback in a constructive and effective way
• Provide developmental opportunities including leadership development, to enhance their skills, motivation, and performance
• Workiva is committed to executives who embody and model “Servant Leadership” qualities
• Create an atmosphere of respect, mutual support, flexibility, continuous learning, good humor, and commitment to business goals and customer needs to fulfill the company vision
• Establishes and maintains relationships and effectively communicates with customers, business unit leaders and senior management to raise visibility of UX and ensure collaboration with appropriate key stakeholders
• Work with design leaders on a strategy to establish guidelines, principles, and standards to ensure design alignment across teams for a consistent user experience
• Work with the Research Director to establish a comprehensive research strategy
• Evaluation of methodologies and processes for ensuring that insights are usable and communicated to impact design decisions
• Ensure alignment in approach and effective communication across product teams

Skills: Strategic Planning, Cross-Team Alignment, Talent Development, Scaling Strategy, Leadership Coaching, Constructive Feedback, Stakeholder Communication, Research Strategy

• Manage all aspects of UX and product design activities, starting at the beginning stages of concept design and into prototyping and execution
• Create and own wireframes, interactions, prototypes and UI for various features and products
• Define new interfaces and systems for VR/AR products while collaborating closely with the design and product teams
• Autonomously influence a cross-functional team of creative and technical collaborators to execute on complex products and features
• Design end-to-end flows, UX and visuals and contribute to the product and feature set
• Conduct ongoing user and competitive analysis to understand the landscape, positioning, and feature set
• Partner with designers, product managers, engineers, researchers, and QA
• Overseeing the implementation of the user experience from product conception to launch, as well as post-launch design support
• Synthesize expansive and ambiguous business requirements and accomplish them through design
• Contribute to strategic decisions, working with the Design, Product and Leadership teams
• Articulate design decisions to a vast set of internal stakeholders
• Help build the Startup's UX and product design strategy

Skills: UX Management, Wireframing, VR/AR Design, Cross-Functional Leadership, End-to-End Design, User Analysis, Stakeholder Communication, Design Strategy

• Takes part in aligning the vision and technology roadmap for EdTech products and solutions based on UI/UX and assumes end-to-end responsibility of roadmap execution
• Responsible for monitoring and driving UI/UX product from creation of the design concepts to the final launch of the product as well as post-launch monitoring and analysis
• Responsible for the identification and cultivation of business opportunities for UI/UX products
• Monitor constantly, changing consumer preferences and amend the vision to keep the business’s product relevant and engaging to the consumers
• Evaluates emerging UI/UX trends to advise internal and external stakeholders on innovations to resolve business needs
• Enhances existing product lines’ user experience, functionalities, and capabilities
• Performs gap analysis of existing UI/UX solutions and drives user experience improvements
• Ensures the implementation of UI/UX research methodologies and testing activities to analyze and predict user behavior
• Works closely with internal and external teams on product brainstorming
• Understands internal and external necessities, creates solution requirement documents, and performs the product development and launch of UI/UX solutions
• Continuously develop skills and knowledge in relevant areas through research, experimentation, and professional practice projects to maintain an understanding of the changing UI/UX trends
• Drive product design and brand forward, setting design as a core competency and differentiator
• Develop brand concepts working closely with the marketing and sales team
• Work closely with the product team on both the customer experience of the platform and the customer experience of the digital journey
• Lead user research and other experiments to inform design decisions

Skills: UI/UX Roadmapping, Product Monitoring, Opportunity Identification, Trend Evaluation, UX Enhancement, Gap Analysis, Research Implementation, Cross-Team Collaboration

• Be invested in the long-term product vision
• Collaborate with remote team members
• Own the end-to-end user experience, across all device platforms
• Play an active role in Product Strategy formulation
• Be hands-on in designing and lead deliveries with a team of talented designers
• Build and lead a formidable design team
• Responsible for the identification of business opportunities for optimizing the on-site user experience and ultimate KPI achievements
• Providing support on the e-commerce trading strategy to achieve the overall sales targets, trading forecasts and conversions
• Successfully leverage new digital products deployed into the platform to maximise their impact on conversion and ROI
• Identify existing and new user groups, customer needs and define enhanced customer journeys
• Develop an excellent customer experience by identifying opportunities for developing relevant and engaging content
• Deliver an online revenue stream by planning for the acquisition of new customers and enhanced cross-selling to existing customers
• Review the performance of all sites to ensure ROI

Skills: Product Visioning, Remote Collaboration, UX Ownership, Product Strategy, Design Leadership, Team Building, KPI Optimization, Customer Journey Mapping

• Managing and mentoring the UXers and Designers in the Shared Products and Platforms team
• Setting clear goals and strategies to manage resources accordingly
• Adhering to the product roadmap and guiding team members towards growth and success
• Making sure that the team follows the best UX practices and research methods
• Engaging the entire UX team in championing design methodologies and best practices
• Facilitating collaboration with product management, engineering and research teams 
• Ensure successful product development and an overall understanding of users’ needs
• Recruiting and attracting talent to an organisation
• Leading and contributing to projects as much as time allows
• Helping to build an inspiring culture and workplace, together with the other managers
• Developing and contributing to the UX community and sharing the best UX and research practices across the organization
• Bridging UX at the Shared Products and Platforms team with the brands teams, Consumer Business, Advertising Solutions, and collaborating in shared initiatives

Skills: Team Leadership, UX Mentorship, Goal Setting, Resource Planning, UX Best Practices, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Talent Recruitment, Product Roadmapping

• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to meet deadlines and achieve results
• Experience dealing with stakeholders and clients
• Quick learner, always open-minded, curious and eager to learn new skills
• Experience from UX design leadership in a variety of contexts and ways of working
• Skilled in higher-level design frameworks such as design thinking and jobs to be done
• Management experience with direct reports under guidance in an agile environment
• Proven and successful experience delivering a website redesign, with experience in information architecture, responsive design and working with brand and content collaboratively
• Experience in a Graphic Design or Visual Design role, either in-house or agency
• Experience working with HTML/CSS
• Extensive experience in User Experience design, delivering first-class UX and UI at highly-regarded Product-led companies/agencies (including experience in both app and web)

Qualifications: BA in Interaction Design with 3 years of Experience

• Professional experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, or similar role
• Experience leading design teams as a UX, product or interaction design manager
• Demonstrating experience leading teams in creating user-centered design solutions
• Experience presenting to and influencing senior management
• Experience designing complex consumer-facing digital products, mobile, and web experiences
• Demonstrated ability to deliver large-scale strategic design initiatives with a bias toward scalable systems and patterns
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work successfully with teams across the organization, including Engineering, Product Management, and Senior Leadership
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels, collaborate to solve problems, present design and sell solutions, and keep colleagues informed
• Able to collaborate with stakeholders, product managers and development teams to iterate existing products and design and build new functionality
• Able to demonstrate having delivered a product project, from the design stage through to its launch
• Open and honest communication style with an ability to think and speak the language of business, product and technology

Qualifications: BA in Human-Computer Interaction with 6 years of Experience

• Demonstrated experience from coaching designers and growing the influence of design in an organisation
• Experience from low-engagement, customer-facing apps
• UX design and brand design management experience with blockchain/Web3 projects
• Experience in leading design teams for Web2 companies or agencies
• Experience creating design systems that encompass all touchpoints with users, from websites to apps to social media
• Hands-on experience with using various UX and design tools, including video, and especially UX design for apps and websites
• Deep knowledge of experience design disciplines from ethnographics and user research, personas, journey design and interaction design through to visual design and branding
• Solid experience managing teams and external suppliers
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Be process-driven, detail-oriented, but also pragmatic and service-focused
• Competent working in a fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholders
• Keep open lines of communication, collaborate with other teams and suppliers

Qualifications: BA in Information Architecture with 7 years of Experience

• Previous experience of leading, mentoring or managing a team is expected for this senior level
• Extensive UX design background working on various projects
• Experience and track record of large-scale re-design transformation projects
• Experience owning the full UX process
• Experience developing and mentoring juniors
• Strong point of view on how diversity, equity and inclusion play a key role in a company’s success
• Extensive experience in designing and shipping for responsive web and mobile applications, ideally with experience in B2B and eCommerce
• Technical experience working within tech teams in a SCRUM environment 
• Strong knowledge of Figma and building and maintaining a design system
• Demonstrates a user-centred design approach, solid knowledge of user research methodology, problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Excellent stakeholder management and leadership communication skills in English, German, and/or Polish
• Ability to inspire forward thinking, lead discussions, and convince through narrative and rigor 

Qualifications: BA in Visual Communication with 5 years of Experience

• Professional experience in UX design, UI design, and information architecture
• Exceptional design skills related to a broad range of print and digital deliverables
• Experience designing for SaaS products 
• Experience mentoring, coaching and guiding other less tenured Designers in best practices and methodologies
• Experience in an Agile environment
• Experience with wireframe tools, or the ability to recommend one
• Strong technical background in UX
• Autonomous, entrepreneurial and have strong problem-solving capabilities with an analytical mind with a focus on customer-centred design
• Proven and successful record of having delivered a product project, from the design stage to all
• Instinctive ability to supervise and support the creation of user flows, wireframes, information architecture, interface mockups and final UI designs which synthesize user data and research
• Able to help plan, develop and execute user research to inform design decisions
• Able to work in cross-functional teams and think laterally across other workstreams

Qualifications: BA in Digital Experience Design with 4 years of Experience