Senior Engineering Manager

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.

What You'll Do:

• 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

Team Performance Development:

• 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

What You'll Need:

Minimum Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications 

• 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 

Travel Requirements and Working Conditions

• Willingness to travel up to 15% for team and corporate meetings, fostering relationships and representing company interests 

• Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, as we embrace flexible work arrangements

How You’ll Be Rewarded

✅ Salary range in the US: $151,000.00 - $242,000.00

✅ A discretionary bonus typically paid annually

✅ Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire

✅ 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package

The salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job in the US. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and other relevant factors.

Workiva is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.  We believe that great minds think differently.  We value diversity of backgrounds, beliefs, and interests, and we recognize diversity as an important source of intellectual thought, varied perspective, and innovation.  Employment decisions are made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other protected characteristic.  We strongly encourage and welcome people from historically marginalized groups to apply.

Workiva is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. To request assistance with the application process, please email talentacquisition@workiva.com.  

Workiva employees are required to undergo comprehensive security and privacy training tailored to their roles, ensuring adherence to company policies and regulatory standards.

Workiva supports employees in working where they work best - either from an office or remotely from any location within their country of employment.

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