Summary
Senior Product Managers are responsible for leading decision making, product strategy, definition, and execution for one or more products or feature areas that impact multiple product development teams or business functions.
As a Senior Product Manager, you will define and drive the end-to-end product vision and strategy within Workiva's Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions! Our clients navigate a constantly evolving landscape, seeking optimal ways to proactively address potential threats to their businesses. You will work closely with customers to understand their needs and pain points and prioritize and sequence feature development and releases leading to significant and tangible business value. You will develop your ideas into real products that our customers use and love every day. You will build strong working relationships across multiple engineering, design, project management, and business teams, and work closely with senior leaders within product development and across the company. You will be an advocate for your customers throughout the organization and hold a very high bar for building high quality products.
What You’ll Do:
- Deeply understand the needs of our business and customers to build clarity on the requirements to build a resilient, reliable product
- Influence stakeholders and engineers with the right data points by driving clarity and alignment
- Create and drive alignment to execute faster, communicate often and highlight risk early
- Collaborate extensively with cross functional teams, including Engineering, User Experience, Customer Success, and Go-to-market teams to drive the vision, roadmap and delivery of the product
- You will be an expert in identifying long-term investment opportunities and engaging partners to garner support for those feature areas
- You will own the roadmap for the product, and will collaborate with internal and external stakeholder to execute the vision
- As an expert, you will partner with others to collect performance metrics and form hypotheses for complex technical needs in order to improve product development in multiple areas
- Use your insights and knowledge from enterprise customers as well as broad technical subject matter expertise to train and enable a scalable product
Minimum qualifications:
- Requires a minimum of 6 years of related experience in a product role in software or other related field
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in a related field
- A proven track record of leading the development of product vision and strategy
- Experience delivering software in an agile development environment using continuous deployment techniques
- MBA degree
- Shipped products with great customer experience user reviews
- A self-starter mindset to execute in a fast-paced environment with minimal direction
- An excellent understanding of product development and how web technologies work
- Ability to work collaboratively in an environment that promotes constant team communication
- Strong Leadership skills – the ability to influence and inspire across multiple teams and job functions
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong analytical, problem solving, and prioritization skills
- Willingness to travel, with up to 20% travel expected for customer on-sites and team/corporate meetings
- Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, as we embrace flexible work arrangements.
- Salary range in the US:
- A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
- Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
- 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package
Where You’ll Work
Our values drive how we work and who we hire. You will see these values ingrained in how we support our customers, work with team members, build our products and in the work environment we’ve created.
- Customer Success: Always delight our customers.
- Trust: Rely on each other.
- Integrity: Do the right thing, every time.
- Collaboration: Share resources and work together.
- Innovation: Keep creating solutions and finding better ways.
- Inclusion: Support a diverse community where we all belong.
- Accountability: Be responsible for your success and failure.
At Workiva, you’ll enjoy:
- Fantastic Benefits: With coverage starting day one, choose from competitive health, dental, and vision plans on the largest physician networks available.
- Casual Dress: Workiva has a casual work environment, most people wear jeans to the office.
- Involvement: Ability to participate in Business Employee Resource Groups (Black, Hispanic, Asian, Women, Rainbow (LGBTQIA+), Veterans, Disabilities), Volunteering, Company wide celebrations, and more
- Work-life Balance: We have competitive PTO, VTO and Parental Leave. We encourage employees to spend time enjoying life outside of work.
Workiva is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. To request assistance with the application process, please email
Workiva supports employees in working where they work best - either from an office or remotely from any location within their country of employment.
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