Engineering Manager, Workiva
Frontend Design
$129-207k
+ Discretionary bonus typically paid annually + Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
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
$129-207k
+ Discretionary bonus typically paid annually + Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To power transparent reporting for a better world.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of related software engineering experience
- Undergraduate Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in a related field
Desirable
- 2+ years of experience as a people manager
- Progressive software engineering experience in automated testing or process improvement, working within the software development life cycle
- Strong leadership skills, with a history of successfully leading teams
- Demonstrated proficiency in programming, including a solid foundation in computer science, competencies in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented software design (Product Development)
- Experience working in an Agile development environment
- Experience building React-based frontend web applications in a distributed, multi-team organization
- Experience building frontend application frameworks and evangelizing / enforcing associated development best practices
- Experience with design systems development, preferably with React and TypeScript
- Experience with web accessibility (ADA compliance)
- Exceptional communication abilities, including verbal, listening, and written skills, paired with a keen attention to detail that ensures accuracy and thoroughness
- Skilled in facilitation and adept at resolving conflicts effectively
- Experience working in a highly regulated industry
What the job involves
- In this role, you’ll lead the Frontend Design (FED) team, which equips engineers and designers with the tools, libraries, and training needed to build seamless client applications within Workiva
- The team’s core product, Unify, extends Material UI to provide React-based UI components for developers, Figma resources for designers, and a comprehensive documentation site for both
- Success in this role depends on strong customer support, strategic prioritization, and close collaboration with UX and key stakeholders
- You'll also drive adoption of Unify, enhance engagement with product teams, and improve designer-developer collaboration
- As part of the Frontend Frameworks pillar, this team plays a key role in shaping Workiva’s frontend technology vision
- Your leadership will ensure scalability and adaptability in our web applications while enhancing global user experiences
- You'll work closely with product and design teams to implement impactful improvements, all while managing the growth and development of FED team members
- 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 squad(s) 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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