Senior Product Manager - Collaboration Tools & ContentAPIs
Job Description
Summary
As a Senior Product Manager, you will define and drive the end-to-end product vision and strategy for your area. You will work closely with 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 develop your ideas into real products that our customers use and love every day.
Specifically, you'll be supporting Collaboration Tools and ContentAPIs. Collaboration tools is all about building capabilities that enable customers work together to accomplish their goals. It's the connective tissue within and between experiences in the Workiva Platform. Content APIs serve as a key extensibility point for the Workiva platform. This role will lead key investments that will bring openness and extensibility to the platform, enabling our customers and partners to build and/or customize their experience within the platform.
We believe that product management is a team sport, which is why you'll work closely with UX and Engineering, as well as other key stakeholders, to continuously deliver valuable products. As an advocate for our customers, you will uphold exceptionally high standards for building these best-in-class products throughout the organization.
What You'll Do
Owns a significant and complex product or multiple products
Leverages product and customer discovery to inform product strategy
Contributes to organization's strategy
Demonstrates ability to navigate significantly complex / ambiguous situations
Regularly publishes product related content within the organization
Mentors Associate Product Managers and Product Managers
Partners with multiple product development teams, product managers and leaders, and functional leaders
Influences direction of cross-functional and cross-team dependencies and eliminates roadblocks
Builds working relationships with many engineering, product, and functional leaders at director level and above
Provides specialized technical guidance and domain knowledge to colleagues across the organization
Leads teams to consistently and regularly ship cross-product features with high business value
Drives significant incremental improvements of key business metrics
Helps teams design and incorporate cross-team process improvements on an ongoing basis
Successfully champions and drives consistency across multiple products
What You'll Need
Experience
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
Requires specialized expertise in sub-function and working knowledge of related product functions (Collaboration Tools & ContentAPIs)
A proven track record of leading the development of product vision and strategy
Skills
A self-starter mindset to execute in a fast-paced environment with minimal direction
Strong Leadership skills – the ability to influence and inspire across multiple teams and job functions
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Strong analytical, problem solving, and prioritization skills
An excellent understanding of product development and how web technologies work
Ability to work collaboratively in an environment that promotes constant team communication
Education
Bachelors degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in related field
MBA preferred
Working Conditions & Physical Requirements
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, not in a Workiva office.
How You’ll Be Rewarded:
- Salary range in the US:Â
- 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.
Where You’ll Work
Our values drive how we work and who we hire. You will see these values ingrained in how we support our customers, work with team members, build our products and in the work environment we’ve created.
Customer Success: Always delight our customers.
Trust: Rely on each other.Â
Integrity: Do the right thing, every time.Â
Collaboration: Share resources and work together.Â
Innovation: Keep creating solutions and finding better ways.Â
Inclusion: Support a diverse community where we all belong.Â
Accountability: Be responsible for your success and failure.
We believe our people are our greatest asset, and our unique culture gives employees the opportunity to make an impact everyday. We give our employees the freedom and resources they need—backed by our culture of collaboration and diverse thought—to continue innovating and breaking new ground. We hire talented people with a wide range of skills and experiences who are eager to tackle some of today’s most challenging problems.
At Workiva, you’ll enjoy:Â
Fantastic Benefits: With coverage starting day one, choose from competitive health, dental, and vision plans on the largest physician networks available.
Casual Dress: Workiva has a casual work environment, most people wear jeans to the office.
Involvement: Ability to participate in Business Employee Resource Groups (Black, Hispanic, Asian, Women, Rainbow (LGBTQIA+), Veterans, Disabilities), Volunteering, Company wide celebrations, and more
Work-life Balance: We have competitive PTO, VTO and Parental Leave. We encourage employees to spend time enjoying life outside of work.
Learn more about life at Workiva: https://www.linkedin.com/company/workiva/
Learn more about benefits: https://www.workiva.com/careers/benefits
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 [email protected].
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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Date Posted
06/24/2023
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