Senior Designer, Corporate Communications

Senior Designer, Corporate Communications

Workiva is seeking a skilled, hands-on Senior Designer, Corporate Communications to be the dedicated creative partner for our Corporate and Internal Communications teams. This role sits within the Creative team in Marketing and covers a broad portfolio, including employee newsletters, all-hands presentations, digital signage, sustainability reports, annual reports, quarterly board decks, and investor day materials.

This is a high-craft, high-output role for a designer who takes ownership, thrives on variety, and understands the precision required for executive and corporate communications. You will work within established design systems, collaborate closely with Corporate Communications teams, and partner with colleagues across the Creative team to deliver polished, on-brand work.

About The Creative Team

The Creative team is Workiva's centralized in-house creative function, responsible for brand expression across the company. We focus on craft, consistency, and delivering work that reflects Workiva's quality. The team partners with functions across the business to ensure Workiva has intentional brand presence at every touchpoint.

Join a forward-thinking team where 100% of marketing employees set annual AI goals and complete comprehensive AI training. Workiva is investing in its marketers to become best-in-class AI practitioners as we transition to a fully AI-embedded organization.

What You'll Do

Design & Craft

• Design and produce a wide range of corporate communications assets: all-hands and town hall presentations, email and newsletter templates, digital signage, intranet visuals, print materials, sustainability reports, annual reports, quarterly board decks, and investor day materials.
• Actively contribute to and iterate on the internal design system, scaling templates and component libraries for consistency, quality, and efficiency.
• Translate complex, high-level corporate briefs into clear, precise, and visually compelling narratives, managing multiple high-priority projects simultaneously.
• Collaborate with the Video & Motion Graphics team, providing briefs and creative direction for visual cohesion on video and animated assets.
• Uphold a high standard of craft in typography, layout, data visualization, and visual hierarchy, especially for high-visibility, executive-level materials.

Stakeholder Partnership

• Serve as a trusted and responsive creative partner to the Corporate Communications arm.
• Engage directly with stakeholders to clarify ambiguous requirements, ask pertinent questions, recommend sustainable design solutions, and deliver work meeting creative and strategic goals.
• Manage day-to-day project queues and priorities independently under broad objectives, proactively communicating timelines and potential risks.

Growth & Collaboration

• Lead and participate in creative team reviews, providing constructive feedback to enhance the team's collective output.
• Independently identify and implement improvements to shared templates, creative systems, and team workflows.
• Stay current with design trends and tools, bringing a continuous improvement mindset to your craft.
• Adopt AI-enhanced practices: use generative tools for asset production, automate design and writing tasks, and leverage performance metrics for data-informed decisions to maximize revenue impact.

What You'll Need

Minimum Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional design experience with a portfolio demonstrating strong craft across various formats (presentations, editorial/report design, corporate communications).
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of relevant career experience and expertise.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a B2B SaaS or tech environment.
• Proficiency in Figma (component libraries) and Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop).
• Proven ability to work within and contribute to brand or design systems, extending existing templates and component libraries.
• Experience producing high-stakes or executive-level design materials (board/investor presentations, annual reports, formal corporate publications).
• Ability to manage a busy, varied workload and competing priorities independently.
• Background or strong interest in data visualization, infographics, or financial storytelling.
• Familiarity with internal or corporate comms platforms (e.g., Staffbase, Simpplr, Confluence).
• Comfortable working autonomously in a fully remote environment with distributed teams.
• Receptive to feedback, able to iterate quickly, and invested in output quality and precision.

Travel Requirements & Working Conditions

• 10% travel for company events and internal meetings.
• Reliable internet access for remote work periods.

How You’ll Be Rewarded

• Salary range in the US: $106,000.00 - $172,000.00
• Discretionary bonus typically paid annually.
• Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire.
• 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package.

The salary range represents the low and high end for this job in the US. Actual salary offers consider skills, qualifications, experience, and other relevant factors. Location may affect the range.

Why Join Workiva

Workiva provides a platform that brings confidence, control, and a competitive edge to complex organizations. Our AI-powered platform unifies finance, risk, and sustainability, ensuring trusted, traceable data for action. This helps leaders gain confidence, visibility into risks, and the ability to move with speed and precision.

At Workiva, you'll contribute to technology that executives, boards, and regulators depend on. Your work will help organizations navigate uncertainty, maintain trust, and make sound decisions. If you're energized by meaningful challenges, inspired by collaborative teams, and motivated to help organizations turn uncertainty into advantage, we encourage you to apply.

Workiva is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other protected characteristic.

Workiva is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. To request assistance, email talentacquisition@workiva.com.

Workiva employees undergo comprehensive security and privacy training.

Workiva supports employees working where they work best, either from an office or remotely within their country of employment.

Key skills/competency

• Presentation Design
• Report Design
• Corporate Communications
• Brand Systems
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Figma
• Data Visualization
• Graphic Design
• Stakeholder Management
• AI Integration