Senior Product Manager - Linking

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Our Product Managers are the glue holding our business and technology strategies together. They are charged with listening to our customers, understanding our business, and collaborating with our full product development teams to build groundbreaking solutions that empower our customers to get their jobs done quickly and right. You’ll have a healthy mix of technical and customer experience responsibilities and the autonomy to set the course for your product area.

As the Senior Product Manager for Linking you will be responsible for innovation in this hyper-critical area and help chart the course for our overall platform strategy. 

Linking sits at the core of our platform and you’ll be working with stakeholders across the company and collaborating with other product teams to turn your ideas into reality, and in doing so make a meaningful impact on the lives of our customers by simplifying their most complex work.

We are large enough to have the resources and scale to tackle huge technical and customer experience challenges but small enough that each Product Manager has a very real opportunity to impact the course of our business. We love straddling these worlds and think you will too.

The Senior Product Manager (SPM) title is intended for someone with substantial product experience and an established track record of successful product practices and delivery. The SPM leads multiple product teams or a large product group and is responsible for defining the product strategies and customer outcomes that their product team(s) work to achieve and ensuring that the products delivered meet the needs of Workiva customers.

Responsibilities

Product Discovery: Engages internal Workiva experts and customers (new or prospective) to gain an understanding of key challenges that represent opportunities for Workiva products or solutions. Using this knowledge, the product manager collaborates with his/her product team(s) to iteratively define solutions ranging from small feature enhancements to robust solutions.

  • Meets with customers to identify customer needs and opportunities, determine product market fit
  • Gathers and considers feedback from a range of existing customers to determine whether new enhancements/features/solutions will address their needs
  • Meets with customers to validate features and walks through product iterations in the course of development to ensure product development is on track to meet customer needs
  • Researches competitive/related solutions, understands the technology landscape
  • Acquires a deep expertise of their product, their customers, and the related domain(s)
  • Works closely with design to make sure features are usable and intuitive for our customers
  • Works closely with engineering to ensure solution feasibility
  • Document key uses cases to help the team understand the problems
  • Creates story maps, roadmaps and other artifacts to provide context and direction to product teams and other stakeholders
  • Ensures final product meets customer needs

Management of Product: Authors and maintains product vision and strategy. Defines priority of outcomes, clarifies customer needs for product team(s), works with engineering to set deadlines for milestones, authors Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), and acts as a leader on their product team(s).

  • Acquires a deep expertise of their product(s) and adjacent products
  • Creates and maintains a clear product vision and strategy that helps drive the product forward and supports the broader business goals of Workiva
  • Partners with lead engineer and UX designer to scope out solutions and features and establish pathways for team to develop the product
  • Establishes success criteria for the product, and works with UX researcher to determine how to measure that criteria.
  • Monitors progress towards product completion for each component and the final product
  • Ensures final product meets customer needs
  • Identify potential problems within their product areas, process, or teams that arise in their area and drive resolutions for those issues.

Relationship Management: Manages relationships with their product team, the product management team, product marketing, internal stakeholders, sales, strategic partners, customer success, and customers that use or might use their product.

  • Ensures that their product team understands the vision and strategy of their product, as well as the short and medium term plans to achieve their vision.
  • Collaborates with the Product Management team to identify areas of possible alignment or collision
  • Collaborates with Product Marketing to develop a go to market strategy
  • Works to inform internal stakeholders of product strategy and goals, understands and considers their input

Leadership/Mentorship: Manages or mentors less experienced Product Managers. Provides guidance and leadership to other product team members.

  • May have one or more product managers as direct reports (this role does not have direct reports at this time, it is an individual contributor role)
  • Provides guidance, formally or informally, to others in the Product Management team

What You'll Need

Skills

  • Initiative and ambition
  • Intellectual curiosity
  • Affinity for technology/software
  • Ability to motivate, inspire, and lead by example
  • Excellent interpersonal communication and collaboration skills
  • Strong negotiator
  • Product delivery practices
  • Product evangelism and motivational leadership
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Vision and strategic thinking

Experience

  • Experience as a Senior Product Manager delivering software in an agile development environment using continuous deployment techniques
  • History of delivery of successful products in a product management role
  • Experience in managing beta or early adopter programs
  • Demonstrated competency in product discovery practices
  • Entrepreneurial interests and experience
  • B.S./B.A. degree preferred, preferably in computer science, computer engineering, or business
  • MBA preferred
  • Travel Requirement - 25 to 35% when we are back to traveling; all work is remote now
  • 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: $125,000 - $160,000
  • 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.

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. 
  • 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.

     

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/workiva-life-and-careers/

Learn more: 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.

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].

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Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • Product
  • Sales & Marketing
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    • Dart Languages
    • ReactLibraries
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    • JIRAManagement
    • DrupalCMS
    • SalesforceCRM
    • MarketoLead Gen

Location

Workiva is in an ideal location on the banks of the South Platte River surrounded by restaurants and retail shops!

An Insider's view of Workiva

What’s the vibe like in the office?

Workiva is a close-knit workplace where teamwork is highly valued—people encourage and truly appreciate the hard work of their fellow team members and treat each other with respect.

Molly Nitka

Corporate Programs Manager

What is your vision for the company?

Our mission at Workiva—to power transparent reporting for a better world—is supported by our company values: customer success, innovation, trust, integrity, inclusion, collaboration, and accountability. We are successful because we put our employees first, listen to their voices, and respond to their needs.

Marty Vanderploeg

CEO

What are Workiva Perks + Benefits

Workiva Benefits Overview

When you join Workiva, you get a world-class benefits package for you and your family. On day one, every full-time employee starts with stock options, vacation, and the opportunity to enroll in our discounted stock purchase plan.

We offer comprehensive health, dental, and vision care plans; life and disability insurance; and 12 weeks of paid parental leave. With a casual dress code, support for health and wellness, and flexible work hours, we’ve got you covered for whatever life brings.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
We have seven employee resource groups that are formed around a shared interest or common goal. These groups are designed to support their members and cultivate a more diverse & inclusive workspace.
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Company equity
Employee stock purchase plan
Performance bonus
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
We provide up to 12 weeks of parental leave for the primary caretaker. Workiva also provides 12 weeks of leave for the secondary caretaker.
Family medical leave
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Pet friendly
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Workiva offers employees professional development opportunities like Onsite training courses, The ability to attend job related conferences and seminars.
Promote from within
Continuing education available during work hours

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