Engineering Manager - Frontend Design

In this role, you’ll lead the Frontend Design (FED) team, which equips engineers and designers with the tools, libraries, and training needed to build seamless client applications within Workiva. The team’s core product, Unify, extends Material UI to provide React-based UI components for developers, Figma resources for designers, and a comprehensive documentation site for both. Success in this role depends on strong customer support, strategic prioritization, and close collaboration with UX and key stakeholders. You'll also drive adoption of Unify, enhance engagement with product teams, and improve designer-developer collaboration.

As part of the Frontend Frameworks pillar, this team plays a key role in shaping Workiva’s frontend technology vision. Your leadership will ensure scalability and adaptability in our web applications while enhancing global user experiences. You'll work closely with product and design teams to implement impactful improvements, all while managing the growth and development of FED team members.

What You'll Do:

• Leadership: Lead and empower a squad of engineers

• Talent Management: Effectively represent and communicate talent needs, prioritizing based on the roadmap and team capacity. Make engineering trade-offs within your squad while collaborating with other group leaders

• Quality Assurance: Collaborate with group leaders and individual contributors to define, assess, and execute a product quality strategy, ensuring adherence to guidelines

• Risk Management: Identify and mitigate technical risks within your group, providing transparent communication to leadership

• Planning: Work with group leaders to define and plan group objectives, ensuring alignment with broader company goals

• Sustainability: Promote sustainable product development practices and agile principles. Pay attention to support burdens, architectural direction, and technical debt

• Delivery Schedule: Contribute to and hold accountability for the product delivery schedule

• Representation: Represent Workiva Engineering at internal and external events and actively engage in recruiting via meet-ups, conferences, and events

• Best Practices: Communicate, reinforce, and ensure that your squad(s) develop software within the principles, standards, and best practices for Workiva Product Development, including Engineering, Architecture, and Product

Team Performance Development:

• Performance Assessment: Assess and document individual employee performance

• Coaching: Meet with direct reports to discuss and coach in various areas, addressing issues and obstacles that they face

• Conflict Management: Manage team health, including employee engagement and conflict resolution

• Career Growth: Prioritize and invest time into career growth for direct reports, providing opportunities related to their goals

• Recruitment: Participate in the recruiting and selection process and manage new team member onboarding

What You'll Need:

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of related software engineering experience

• Undergraduate Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in a related field

Preferred Qualifications 

• 2+ years of experience as a people manager

• Progressive software engineering experience in automated testing or process improvement, working within the software development life cycle

• Strong leadership skills, with a history of successfully leading teams

• Demonstrated proficiency in programming, including a solid foundation in computer science, competencies in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented software design (Product Development)

• Experience working in an Agile development environment 

• Experience building React-based frontend web applications in a distributed, multi-team organization

• Experience building frontend application frameworks and evangelizing / enforcing associated development best practices

• Experience with design systems development, preferably with React and TypeScript

• Experience with web accessibility (ADA compliance)

• Exceptional communication abilities, including verbal, listening, and written skills, paired with a keen attention to detail that ensures accuracy and thoroughness

• Skilled in facilitation and adept at resolving conflicts effectively

• Experience working in a highly regulated industry 

Travel Requirements & Working Conditions

• This role typically requires no more than 10% travel, allowing for a healthy work-life balance

• To thrive in this role, you will need a dependable internet connection to unlock the world of remote work opportunities

How You’ll Be Rewarded

✅ A 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 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.

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 is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. To request assistance with the application process, please email talentacquisition@workiva.com.
 

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