Senior Engineering Manager, Workiva
$151-242k
+ Discretionary Bonus + RSUs
More information about location
Software for sustainability, GRC & financial reporting
Job no longer available
Software for sustainability, GRC & financial reporting
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$151-242k
+ Discretionary Bonus + RSUs
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To power transparent reporting for a better world.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 7+ years of direct people management experience preferred, including supervisory experience of entry-level managers and/or experienced individual contributors
- Deep understanding and practical experience with our core technology stack: TypeScript, Kubernetes, Node.js, React, and GraphQL
- Experience working with and deploying applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Familiarity with API design principles and integration strategies
- Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth SaaS environment
- Previous experience within the accounting, financial technology (FinTech), or sustainability/carbon accounting domains
- Strong understanding of software development best practices, including Agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and testing frameworks
- Demonstrated ability to drive technical initiatives and contribute to the overall technical vision of a product
- Excellent presentation and communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience working in a highly regulated industry
What the job involves
- 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
Our take
For large-scale businesses, collecting and sharing data can be a complex and challenging process. Workiva solves this problem with its AI-powered data platform.
Workiva is one of the biggest players in the market, serving around 75% of Fortune 500 companies, including Google and Delta. Workiva's controlled, secure and audit-ready platform has maintained a clear edge over much of its competition.
Workiva's quality product and its commitment to transparency has made it a firm favourite with companies around the world. If it can maintain this, it stands to consolidate its impressive growth even further in the coming years.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2014
$0.7m
EARLY VC
Dec 2012
$30.7m
SERIES C
Total funding: $46.9m
Company HQ
Ames, IA
Leadership
Julie Iskow
(CEO)Julie joined Workiva in 2019 sa COO/President and became CEO in 2023. Previously, she served as the CTO at Medidate Solutions and as the CIO at WageWorks.
David Haila
(CTO)David has been at Workiva since 2009, joining the team as a Senior Software Engineer. Since then, he has held a number of roles and became CTO in 2023.
Jill Klindt
(CFO & EVP)Jill has been at Workiva since 2008, joining as a Controller before holding a number of roles and becoming CFO & EVP in 2023. Previously, she held Financial roles at Financial Intelligence, Wells Fargo Financial, CitiMortgage, and Principal Financial Group.
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