Workiva
Location
Ames, IA | United States
Job description
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
What You'll Need:
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
Preferred qualifications:
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
Working Conditions & 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:
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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