Senior Engineering Manager
Job Summary
The Senior Engineering Manager serves as a leader to multiple agile product development teams. This role guides the strategic coordination and optimization of behavior across diverse teams and provides technical oversight and guidance while also managing the team members to ensure effective team functioning and product development. They also provide oversight of the product development processes and development teams, giving feedback and developing leaders on those teams. Key responsibilities for which the Senior Engineering Manager is accountable for include: people management; fulfillment of customer requirements, technical oversight, product development planning, process improvement, and stakeholder relationship management.
What You'll Do:
- Leads multiple squads, a team, or engineering group composed of engineers, SDETs, QAA, or Architects. May also manage management level employees.
- Manages, issues, resource needs and risks impacting the group, team priorities and roadmap communicates and partners with R&D leaders.
- Works with direct report manager(s), group leaders and organizational thought leaders to define, assess, and execute product quality strategy.
- Collaborates with team, group, and R&D leaders to define, plan and execute objectives.
- Promotes sustainable product development practices & agile principles ensuring appropriate attention to overall support burden, architectural direction, & tech debt in support of the taxonomy group
- Contributes to and enacts accountability for the product delivery schedule
- Represents Workiva Engineering at internal and external events
- Communicates, reinforces, and holds teams accountable for developing software within the principles, standards, and best practices for Workiva Product Development (Engineering, Architecture, and Product). Ensures team representation at appropriate architecture guilds; advocates for architecture priorities as a part of the roadmap.
- Collaborates with R&D leadership to assesses and execute on priority and resource reallocations.
- Provides context for business level objectives as well as product, engineering, and architectural decisions outside of the immediate team
Team Performance Development
- Assess and document individual employee performance.
- Meets with direct reports to discuss and coach in areas including, but not limited to: career development, assigned product development work, and issues or obstacle that they face. Address issues from 1:1s.
- Conducts skip-level meetings.
- Prioritizes and invests time into career growth for direct reports; includes identifying and providing opportunities related to their goals, as appropriate.
- Leads workforce planning and the recruiting process for the team.
- Assesses and manages team health, including employee engagement and conflict management
What You'll Need:
Education
- Undergraduate Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in a related field.
Skills
- Excellent communication (verbal, listening, writing) skills
- Ability to communicate effectively to senior management
- Effectively manage and communicate to a group of teams to bring teams together towards a common goal
- Strong facilitation and conflict resolution skills
- Time management
- Strong attention to detail
- Demonstrated leadership skills in people and team management
- Demonstrated thought leader who is able to create objectives and goals in alignment with team vision
- Understanding of the software development life cycle and why each piece is important
- Demonstrated proficiency in programming to include a solid foundation in computer science, with competencies in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented software design (Product Development)
Experience
- 7+ years experience
- Progressive software engineering experience in automated testing or process improvement; working within the software development life cycle as a software engineer, quality analyst, or similar position
- Experience working in an agile development environment, preferred
- Solid testing background is strongly preferred
Travel Requirements
- Typically requires no more than 25% travel to meet with customers, vendors, and/or suppliers, attend trade shows
Working Conditions & Physical Requirements
- Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, not in a Workiva office
How You'll Be Rewarded:
- Base Pay Range in Colorado: $160,000 - $225,000
- A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
- Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
The base pay range represents the low and high end of the hiring range for this job. Actual pay will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to relevant skills, experience, and capabilities.
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.
- Integrity: Do the right thing, every time.
- Collaboration: Share resources and work together.
- Innovation: Keep creating solutions and finding better ways.
- Inclusion: Support a diverse community where we all belong.
- 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:
- 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 Employee Resource Groups, (Women in Tech, Women in Sales, Ethnic Diversity, Veterans, Rainbow (LGBTQ), Remote Employees, Caregiving) 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.
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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.
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