Senior Program Manager, Workiva
Sales
$106-172k
+A discretionary bonus typically paid annually, +Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
Software for sustainability, GRC & financial reporting
Job no longer available
Software for sustainability, GRC & financial reporting
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$106-172k
+A discretionary bonus typically paid annually, +Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
1001+ employees
Company mission
To power transparent reporting for a better world.
Role
Who you are
- Requires a minimum of 6 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 4 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 2 years of experience
- Up to 10% travel
- Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, not in a Workiva office
Desirable
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Strong understanding of Program and Project Management frameworks
- Solid understanding of development, testing and integration methodologies
- Personal effectiveness/credibility
- Ability to manage multiple programs at once
- Strong problem solving and analysis skills
- Solid financial management skills Initiative to start programs and/or projects with little or no information and drive to see to fruition
- Teamwork oriented and can thrive working alongside many different perspectives to get things done
- Understanding of the implementation partner model within a SaaS organization
- Comfortable working in a dynamic, continuously evolving environment with the ability to prioritize accordingly
- Effective negotiator and creative problem solver who can build consensus and drive results in partnership with stakeholders from individual contributors to executive leadership
- Can lead through influence, partnering with globally distributed, cross-functional teams to achieve a shared goal
- Highest level of integrity and management of confidential information
- A thorough understanding of Organizational Change Management and/or Digital Transformation experience preferred
- Strong business background, with significant SaaS application experience and exposure to business process management
- Prior experience managing large scale, global initiatives
- Proven experience designing and leading strategic planning at a high-growth, enterprise tech company Six Sigma or other related continuous improvement methodology experience preferred
- PgMP or PMP certification preferred
What the job involves
- The Senior Program Manager – Sales is responsible for managing programs related to prioritized strategies and initiatives specific to the functional area of Commercial Operations
- This individual ensures that Workiva's sales operations efforts are prioritized to address stakeholder needs and communicated effectively across Workiva
- This person works with stakeholders to identify the business goals, initiatives, scope, develop resources, and communicate progress
- Collaborate across functional teams to identify programs, projects and resource needs
- Networks with stakeholders to build cross-functional relationships to further build, define and execute strategies and initiatives
- Works with stakeholders to determine the success of the program and subsequently plans for implementation of successful programs and discontinuing unsuccessful efforts
- Owns program and delivery management responsibility for multiple strategies and initiatives, projects
- Accountable for operational excellence including program reviews, feasibility, cost-benefit analysis, prioritization, initiation, and execution based on prioritized strategy and initiatives
- Identify and balance major program constraints including cost, scope, schedule, risk, quality, resources, and stakeholder satisfaction
- Specialize in leading teams through the formulation and execution of program plans and organizational change initiatives
- Plans, monitors and manages to avoid specification shortfalls, budget overruns, scheduling errors and situations that may require emergency management
- Provides transparency with metrics regularly communicated to Executives and/or Leadership
- May act as Project Manager for program efforts and/or needs, which includes being accountable for the entire project scope, the project team and resources, the project budget and management of all stakeholder needs and communications Identify and create development and training opportunities to support employee and project success
- Leverage data and analytics to identify trends, opportunities, and challenges with your program/projects to empower better decision making
- Develop Success criteria including but not limited to identification of measurable expected results, work with data teams to develop baselines, and provide recommendations for metric goals
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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