Workiva
Location
Ames, IA | United States
Job description
Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for you to lead the product and strategic direction of our robust auditor testing tools 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. In this role, you'll be instrumental in defining the product strategy, orchestrating the product roadmap, and spearheading delivery efforts for an expanding suite of capabilities, aimed at helping auditor efficiency. Join our team and harness cutting-edge technology tools to assist our clients in managing their audits effectively!
As the Lead Product Manager, you'll shape and propel the end-to-end product vision and strategy within your domain. Collaborating closely with customers, you'll delve into their requirements and challenges, strategically prioritizing feature development and releases to deliver substantial and measurable business value. Your ideas will manifest into tangible products that our customers utilize and cherish daily.
Forge robust partnerships across diverse engineering, design, project management, and business teams, collaborating closely with senior leaders in product development and throughout the organization. Championing the needs of our customers across the company, you'll maintain an exceptionally high standard for developing top-quality products.
What You'll Do:
Lead strategic planning and execution within the GRC solution, ensuring alignment with company goals and market demands.
Align vision and strategy with business KPIs such as revenue growth, win rate, retention, partner enablement, and CSAT; Deliver and evangelize to senior audiences.
Lead decision-making and prioritization of market needs, product enhancements, and improvements based on customer feedback, market research, and industry trends.
Conduct product discovery to understand the problem space and identify opportunities and validate requirements.
Collaborate with design and engineering to translate product requirements into user-friendly and scalable solutions.
Drive the product development process, working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery and high-quality releases.
Conduct market analysis and competitive research to identify growth opportunities and stay ahead of industry trends.
Act as a subject matter expert for the GRC solution, providing guidance and support to internal stakeholders and customers.
Monitor product performance, collect user feedback, and analyze data to identify areas for improvement and drive product optimization.
Collaborate with sales and marketing teams to develop go-to-market strategies, positioning, and messaging for the GRC solution.
Stay abreast of governance, risk and compliance requirements, ensuring the product meets the necessary standards.
What You'll Need:
Minimum qualifications:
Requires a minimum of 8 years of product management experience
Proven success driving product strategy and product releases in a comparable environment
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
Preferred qualifications:
Experience in enterprise software
Experience in the governance, risk and compliance domain
Experience in audit or audit software a plus
Knowledge and experience working in an Agile development environment a plus
Undergraduate degree with a preference for an MBA
Working Conditions & Travel
Ability to travel to meet with customers and/or key stakeholders, product teams in other Workiva office locations (up to 20%)
Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, not in a Workiva office.
How You'll Be Rewarded:
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.
Learn more about life at Workiva:
Learn more about benefits:
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 .
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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