Principal Experience Designer - Visual Design & Design Systems
Redrouthu's Inc
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Skills
- Accessibility
- Business-to-business
- Artificial Intelligence
- Frontend Development
- FOCUS
- Motion Graphic Design
- Typography
- Semantics
- User Experience
- System Documentation
- Graphics Design
- Workflow
Summary
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.
- Own visual usage guidance and documentation that make intended use, constraints, and quality standards clear for designers, engineers, and AI-assisted workflows.
- Establish ongoing evaluation of AI-generated designs and prototypes, using what you learn to strengthen tokens, examples, and guidance before inconsistencies reach product teams.
- Lead visual design for select high-stakes moments, including major conferences, executive presentations, product vision work, and marketing partnerships.
- Coach designers and influence cross-functional partners through high-quality feedback, clear principles, and strong visual storytelling.
What you’ll need
Minimum Qualifications
- 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).
Preferred Qualifications
- A portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual craft and the ability to translate a visual point of view into scalable product systems.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted design or prototyping workflows, with a clear perspective on their opportunities and limitations.
- 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 the tradeoffs between design intent, system health, and implementation.
- A 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.
- Dice Id: 91174039
- Position Id: 9132831
- Posted 1 hour ago
Company Info
About Redrouthu's Inc
Redrouthu's is a premier, dual-capability talent and technology partner dedicated to helping organizations scale with confidence. We bridge the critical gap between complex business needs and flawless execution by delivering top-tier technical talent and engineering resilient, scalable IT solutions.
We do not believe in a "one-size-fits-all" mentality. Whether an organization requires urgent contract staffing, strategic full-time hires, or custom software architecture built from scratch, Redrouthu’s operates as a dependable extension of our clients' teams. With offices in Austin, Texas, and robust operational capabilities in India, we seamlessly support domestic scaling and international talent expansion.
What We Do: Core Pillars
1. Tech & Engineering Talent Solutions
Hiring often breaks down when recruiters prioritize resume volume over contextual alignment. At Redrouthu's, we focus deeply on quality and precision hiring. We spend time understanding the explicit role requirements, team challenges, and long-term delivery timelines before presenting a single profile.
- Permanent Hires: Identifying and embedding permanent talent that matches your company's technical standards and internal culture.
- Contract Staffing: Rapidly deploying heavily-screened contract professionals to meet immediate project timelines and fluctuating workloads.
- On-Demand RPO: Embedding our elite recruitment specialists directly into your ecosystem to manage talent acquisition at any scale.
- India Talent Solutions: Utilizing our deep on-the-ground expertise to help US firms build, transition, and manage highly effective technical teams within the Indian market.
2. Systems & Custom IT Solutions
We engineer adaptive ecosystems and scalable software architectures built to support evolving business growth. We prioritize clean structure, data security, and long-term maintainability over superficial, rushed deliveries.
- Custom Software Engineering: Translating your complex business logic into custom, cloud-native digital assets mapped precisely to your workflows.
- Managed IT Services: Taking full ownership of daily IT operations, security protocols, and infrastructure efficiency so your internal teams can remain focused on core milestones.
- Managed Projects (SOW): Fully managing end-to-end technical deliverables under clear Statement of Work (SOW) frameworks, deploying specialized tech experts to hit your exact goals.
Why Technologists Choose Redrouthu’s
For developers, engineers, and IT professionals, Redrouthu’s is more than an agency. It is a career accelerator.
- Impactful Projects: We place talent in roles across dynamic industries, including Finance, Healthcare, Retail, and Manufacturing.
- Diverse Technical Ecosystems: Our placements and projects span a massive technical spectrum, from developers and QA specialists to Cloud Engineers and Data Architects.
- Clarity First: We do not ghost candidates or send them into ambiguous interview loops. We ensure you have extreme clarity regarding project scope, expectations, and compensation from day one.
Our Mission & Vision
- Mission: To empower global organizations to execute their digital strategies with absolute confidence by delivering the exact talent and robust technical infrastructure they need.
- Vision: To serve as a globally recognized unified partner where people, process, and modern technology converge to unlock operational excellence and sustained business growth.
Core Values We Live By
- Outcome Over Activity: We do not count hours or measure success by volume. We measure it exclusively by successful placements, stable system uptimes, and realized business value.
- Accountability & Trust: We stand behind the software we build and the technical candidates we place.
- Simplicity & Speed: We avoid unnecessary corporate jargon and technical complexity, choosing instead to deliver streamlined, high-speed execution.
