Principal Product Manager, Workiva
Platform Security
$177-284k
Plus A discretionary bonus typically paid annually and RSUs
Software for sustainability, GRC & financial reporting
Be an early applicant
Software for sustainability, GRC & financial reporting
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$177-284k
Plus A discretionary bonus typically paid annually and RSUs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To power transparent reporting for a better world.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of Product Management experience, with significant time in platform or infrastructure products
- Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Track record of delivering 0→1 products and scaling them in market
- Ability to travel to meet with customers and/or key stakeholders, product teams in other Workiva locations (up to 20%)
- Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely and not in a Workiva office
Desirable
- Experience launching enterprise or SaaS security products such as encryption, key management, or audit/compliance
- Prior engineering experience
- Deep understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM), Authentication & Authorization frameworks (OAuth, SAML, RBAC/ABAC), and Multi-tenant system design
- Expertise in encryption and key management concepts including BYOK, HYOK, and KMS integrations
- Ability to operate as a platform-level thought leader influencing teams across engineering, design, security, and go-to-market
- Strong intuition for balancing usability with robust security and compliance requirements
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead a strategic Account Security initiative within our Platform organization
- This role will define, build, and scale a premium security offering that delivers advanced capabilities such as Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), Hold Your Own Key (HYOK), Advanced Audit Logging, and other enterprise-grade security features
- This is a highly visible role responsible for taking a 0→1 product from concept to market, shaping platform-wide security strategy, and enabling go-to-market success across Sales and Marketing
- Own and drive the end-to-end product strategy for a paid Platform Security offering
- Define vision, roadmap, and success metrics for capabilities including BYOK, HYOK, audit logging, and related security features
- Identify market opportunities and customer needs to shape a differentiated enterprise security product
- Lead product development from ideation through launch and scale, partnering closely with engineering to deliver secure, scalable, and performant solutions
- Make principled tradeoffs between speed, risk, and long-term platform integrity
- Act as a thought leader across the platform organization, driving improvements in authentication, authorization, multi-tenant architecture, and organization management
- Influence platform standards, patterns, and best practices
- Work directly with enterprise customers to understand security requirements and validate solutions
- Partner with internal solution/product teams to ensure platform capabilities meet downstream needs
- Partner with Sales and Marketing to define packaging, pricing, and positioning for the security offering
- Enable Sales through clear value propositions, messaging, and supporting materials
- Drive successful product launches and adoption strategies
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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