VP Solutions Product Management
Job Description
The Vice President of Solutions Product Management defines global product strategy and influences business strategy through organizational leadership and management. The role develops key strategies solving critical problems, and drives them to success through advocacy, influence, and direction. The VP drives multiple major solutions and performs a strategic role in identifying macro-trends in product development and customer needs across a wide range of products and customers. This role will start off focusing on our GRC solution and expand into additional solutions over time.
What You'll Do:
Product Management Oversight: Oversees the work of the Solutions Product Management team, identifying macro-trends in the identification of business needs and related software product requirements with a focus on the needs of the broader customer base
Defines and drives global strategic product goals or initiatives for all solutions
Encourages growth, innovation, and collaboration so that product managers and their teams are operating at a high level of performance
Ensures synchronization of customer discovery across multiple related teams to ensure macro-trends are clearly identified across the customer base
Ensures the Solutions and platform capabilities are aligned with the broader Workiva Platform vision.
Communicates strategic purposes and focus for product development across Product Managers and related Product Development teams
Prioritizes initiatives based on the strategic objectives of Product Management and the company’s objectives
Act as Product Management subject matter expert for GRC, Financial Reporting and all solutions to share best practices across the company
Stakeholder Relationship Management: Fosters relationships with internal teams to ensure successful delivery of the product
Partners with functional, engineering, and product executives across the company
Collaborates with Product Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, Partners, and Professional Service teams to ensure that customer requirements are fully met
Influences future business strategy at the leadership and executive level
People Management: Builds a strong and inclusive organization with high levels of employee engagement by attracting and developing talent and rewarding high performing teams and individuals
Provides employees with coaching, feedback, and developmental opportunities to enhance their skills, motivation, and performance
Maintains an atmosphere of respect, mutual support, flexibility, continuous learning, good humor, and commitment to business goals and customer needs to fulfill the company vision
Rewards high performing employees and teams in ways that enhance employee engagement, commitment, and satisfaction
Establishes and maintains relationships and effectively communicates with customers, and senior management to raise visibility and ensure collaboration with appropriate key stakeholders
Manages operations staffing, including recruitment, supervision, scheduling, development, evaluation, and disciplinary actions
What You'll Need:
Education
Undergraduate Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in a related field.
Experience
15+ years experience delivering software products used by external end-users (not just internal users), ideally in a creative software area, and with experience across two or more of server, web/SaaS, desktop, and mobile
5+ years of people management experience
Entrepreneurial experience managing multiple functions of an operation
Proven success driving product strategy and product releases in a comparable environment
Knowledge and experience working in an Agile development environment a plus
Knowledge and experience in the areas of accounting and financial reporting a plus
Undergraduate degree with a preference for an MBA
​Skills
Expertise in product development from inception to market
Adept at creating strategies to create or acquire valuable, differentiating datasets to create business value.
Ability to multitask to meet tight deadlines
Proven track record of hiring and developing high performing product teams
Ability to collaborate with and influence executive leadership
Strong communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate across the organization with all levels of leadership and management
Travel Requirements
Periodic travel for collaboration and alignment.
Working Conditions & Physical Requirements
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.
Date Posted
08/10/2023
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