Summary
As a Senior Product Manager, you will define and drive the end-to-end product vision and strategy for your area. This role will be focused on enabling an integrated experience to connect, curate, and prepare data from disparate systems of record for analysis and reporting in the Workiva Platform.
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 a high quality product
What You’ll Do:
Owns a significant and complex product or multiple products
Leverages product and customer discovery to inform product strategy
Contributes to organization's strategy
Demonstrates ability to navigate significantly complex / ambiguous situations
Regularly publishes product related content within the organization
Mentors Associate Product Managers and Product Managers
Partners with multiple product development teams, product managers and leaders, and functional leaders
Influences direction of cross-functional and cross-team dependencies
Builds working relationships with many engineering, product, and functional leaders at director level and above
Provides specialized technical guidance and domain knowledge to colleagues across the organization
Resolves most roadblocks on their own
Leads teams to consistently and regularly ship cross-product features with high business value
Drives significant incremental improvements of key business metrics
Helps teams design and incorporate cross-team process improvements on an ongoing basis
Successfully champions and drives consistency across multiple products
Plays important role in selection process for new hires within product management
What You'll Need:
Education
Undergraduate Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in a related field.
MBA preferred
Experience
Requires a minimum of 6 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 4 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 2 years of experience
A proven track record of leading the development of product vision and strategy
A self-starter mindset to execute in a fast-paced environment with minimal direction
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
Experience delivering software in an agile development environment using continuous deployment techniques
An excellent understanding of product development and how web technologies work
Ability to work collaboratively in an environment that promotes constant team communication
Working Environment & Travel
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.
How You’ll Be Rewarded:
$120,000.00 - $204,000.00
The salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job in the US. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and other relevant factors.
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.
We believe our people are our greatest asset, and our unique culture gives employees the opportunity to make an impact everyday. We give our employees the freedom and resources they need—backed by our culture of collaboration and diverse thought—to continue innovating and breaking new ground. We hire talented people with a wide range of skills and experiences who are eager to tackle some of today’s most challenging problems.
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 an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We believe that great minds think differently. We value diversity of backgrounds, beliefs, and interests, and we recognize diversity as an important source of intellectual thought, varied perspective, and innovation. 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. We strongly encourage and welcome people from historically marginalized groups to apply.
Workiva, the provider of the world’s leading connected reporting and compliance platform, is used by thousands of enterprises across 180 countries, including 75 percent of Fortune 500® companies, and by government agencies.