Senior Engineering Manager, Workiva

• Experienced manager with advanced knowledge in a specialized field and broad understanding of related areas
• Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years related experience, or Master’s degree with minimum of 6 years related experience, or PhD with 4 years related experience

Desirable

• In this role, you’ll lead Workiva’s Sustainability engineers to engineer and deliver features into the Carbon accounting platform and deliver a customer experience that integrates with other Workiva products and services
• You will work closely with Product, Designers, Sustainability experts to lead engineers to build a SaaS product that amazes our customers, as well as being responsible for the operational excellence of a cloud-native architecture
• Success in this role depends on strong Product-Engineering background, result-orientated, and close collaboration with UX and key stakeholders
• As part of the Sustainability Platform, this team plays a key role in driving Workiva’s strategic growth
• Your leadership will ensure scalability and rich customer experience in our Carbon platform
• 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 squads develop software within the principles, standards, and best practices for Workiva Product Development, including Engineering, Architecture, and Product
• 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