Senior Engineering Manager

As a Senior Engineering Manager at Workiva, you’ll lead an agile product development team, focusing on collaboration, growth, and continuous improvement. In this role, you’ll provide technical leadership, nurture a diverse team, and strategically guide efforts to ensure successful product development. You’ll play a crucial role in fostering a supportive, inclusive environment where team members feel empowered to learn, experiment, and contribute innovative solutions.

In this position, you’ll lead our Solution Apps team, which is responsible for our Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) offering, serving some of the largest organizations globally.

What You'll Do

• Leadership: Guide, support, and empower a team of engineers

• Talent Management: Represent and communicate team needs, prioritizing based on the roadmap and team capacity and make thoughtful trade-offs within your team while collaborating with other group leaders

• Quality Assurance: Partner with leaders and individual contributors to define and execute a quality strategy, ensuring alignment with guidelines and expectations

• Risk Management: Identify and address technical risks, providing clear communication to leadership

• Planning: Collaborate with group leaders to define and plan team objectives, aligning them with broader company goals

• Sustainability: Champion sustainable product development practices, with a focus on agile principles, support, architectural direction, and technical debt

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

• Representation: Represent Workiva Engineering at both internal and external events, actively engaging in recruiting efforts through meet-ups, conferences, and networking

• Best Practices: Ensure that your team adheres to Workiva's development principles, standards, and best practices in Engineering, Architecture, and Product

Team Performance Development:

• Performance Assessment: Evaluate and document individual team members' performance

• Coaching: Meet regularly with direct reports to provide coaching, support, and guidance in overcoming challenges

• Conflict Management: Maintain team health, addressing engagement and conflict resolution proactively

• Career Growth: Invest time in supporting the career growth of your team members, providing development opportunities aligned with their goals

• Recruitment: Participate in recruiting and onboarding new team members, ensuring a smooth transition into the team

What You'll Need

Required Qualifications

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

• 7+ years of experience in a related engineering role

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in a people management role

• Progressive experience in software engineering, with a strong understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and its importance to product success

• Experience with programming, including a solid foundation in computer science, data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design

• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies

• Experience in accounting or financial reporting 

• Strong communication skills, including verbal, listening, and written communication

• High attention to detail

• Proficiency in facilitation and conflict resolution

Travel Requirements & Working Conditions

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

• To thrive in this role, you’ll need a reliable internet connection to take advantage 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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