Principal Experience Designer - Visual Design Design Systems

Headquarters: United States
URL: https://www.workiva.com/latam/
Workiva is looking for a Principal Experience Designer to shape the visual future of Unify, our enterprise design system. Unify powers the components, patterns, templates, accessibility standards, and shared experiences used across Workiva’s B2B platform.
This is a dual-focus principal role. Roughly 60–70% of your time will be spent leading Unify’s visual design direction: evolving its visual language, shaping token architecture, and creating the reference designs and guidance that help teams build consistently. The remaining 30–40% will focus on high-visibility visual work for major conferences, marketing partnerships, and executive audiences. That work is not separate from the system, it’s part of the broader ecosystem of design in which Unify lives.
You will bring exceptional visual craft, strong systems thinking, and a practical point of view on how design systems need to evolve for AI-assisted design and prototyping.
What you’ll do
• Define and evolve Unify’s visual language across typography, color, spacing, iconography, motion, and brand expression.
• Partner with the components sub-team and the patterns and templates sub-team to ensure visual design is applied consistently and intentionally across every asset.
• Partner with product design, product mgmt and engineering teams to ensure product experience decisions translate faithfully from system to production.
• Maintain a scalable, semantic token architecture that supports consistent experiences across products and over time.
• Create and maintain a library of reference designs, full-screen examples that demonstrate how Unify should be applied in real product experiences.