Lead Product Manager, Workiva
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Software for sustainability, GRC & financial reporting
Open for applications
Software for sustainability, GRC & financial reporting
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To power transparent reporting for a better world.
Role
Who you are
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in a related field
- 8+ years of experience in Product Management, preferably in enterprise SaaS or platform products
- Ability to travel up to 20% for regional team and customer meetings and occasional global events
- Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, as we embrace flexible work arrangements
- Ability to work across multiple time-zones with geographically dispersed teams
Desirable
- A proven track record of leading the development of product vision and strategy, primarily for B2B enterprise vertical SaaS products
- Experience delivering software in an agile development environment using continuous deployment techniques
- A self-starter mindset to execute in a fast-paced environment with minimal direction
- Working knowledge of Audit or Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) space or with related subject matter is advantageous
- Ability to break down complex problems into viable incremental units of customer and business value
- Strong leadership skills – the ability to influence and inspire across multiple teams and job functions
- Self-directed and driven to fully understand market needs and translate into requirements
- Strong commercial acumen and customer mindset
- Strong analytical, problem solving, and prioritization skills
What the job involves
- As a Lead Product Manager, your focus will be on our Governance, Risk and Compliance, (GRC) products and solutions - specifically for the European markets. You will define and drive the end-to-end product vision and strategy for your area, scaling the Workiva GRC product for EMEA.
- You will work closely with EMEA 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 own the roadmap for the EMEA GRC product, and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to execute, develop, evangelize the GRC product strategy and roadmap for the EMEA region
- Own the end-to-end product lifecycle through conception, development, and go-to-market activities
- Deeply understand and identify the unmet and underserved needs of the EMEA region through market, customer research and discovery
- Build clarity on the requirements to build a resilient, reliable product for the EMEA market
- Identify, validate, and prioritize needle moving product investment opportunities that drive growth and expansion
- 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
- Judge product success using qualitative evidence and quantitative metrics and inform product decisions
- Create and drive alignment through influencing stakeholders and engineers with the right data points by driving clarity and alignment to highlight risk early
- As an expert, you will partner with others to identify long-term investment opportunities, 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 EMEA customers, as well as broad technical subject matter expertise, to train and enable a scalable product
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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