Senior Engineering Manager

At Workiva, we’re hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a high-impact team within our Governance, Risk, & Compliance (GRC) area. This is a key leadership role where you’ll guide a skilled full-stack team building critical product features using technologies like TypeScript/React, GraphQL, and Kotlin. Your future team is an agile product development team focused on collaboration, growth, and continuous improvement. In addition to delivering product features, the team also plays a key role in tackling platform integrations and technical unblocking to support broader engineering velocity. In this role, you’ll provide technical leadership, nurture a diverse team, and strategically guide efforts to ensure successful product development. You’ll play a crucial role in fostering a supportive, inclusive environment where team members feel empowered to learn, experiment, and contribute innovative solutions.

What You'll Do

• Leadership: Guide, support, and empower a team of engineers

• Talent Management: Represent and communicate team needs, prioritizing based on the roadmap and team capacity and make thoughtful trade-offs within your team while collaborating with other group leaders

• Technical Expertise: Bring strong technical depth to guide architectural decisions, evaluate trade-offs, and support teams in solving complex challenges at scale. While you won’t be hands-on daily, your technical leadership will shape the success of our systems and solutions. 

• Quality Assurance: Partner with leaders and individual contributors to define and execute a quality strategy, ensuring alignment with guidelines and expectations

• Risk Management: Identify and address technical risks, providing clear communication to leadership

• Planning: Collaborate with group leaders to define and plan team objectives, aligning them with broader company goals

• Sustainability: Champion sustainable product development practices, with a focus on agile principles, support, architectural direction, and technical debt

• Delivery Schedule: Contribute to and ensure accountability for meeting the product delivery schedule

• Representation: Represent Workiva Engineering at both internal and external events, actively engaging in recruiting efforts through meet-ups, conferences, and networking

• Best Practices: Ensure that your team adheres to Workiva's development principles, standards, and best practices in Engineering, Architecture, and Product

• Performance Assessment: Evaluate and document individual team members' performance

• Coaching: Meet regularly with direct reports to provide coaching, support, and guidance in overcoming challenges

• Conflict Management: Maintain team health, addressing engagement and conflict resolution proactively

• Career Growth: Invest time in supporting the career growth of your team members, providing development opportunities aligned with their goals

• Recruitment: Participate in recruiting and onboarding new team members, ensuring a smooth transition into the team

What You'll Need

Required Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in a related field

• 7+ years of experience in a related engineering role

• 4+ years of experience in a people management role

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience leading multiple engineering teams or managing through other managers

• Progressive experience in software engineering, with a strong understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and its importance to product success

• Practical experience with our core technology stack: TypeScript, Java, Kubernetes, Node.js, React, and GraphQL

• Experience with programming, including a solid foundation in computer science, data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design

• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies

• Experience in accounting or financial reporting

• Strong communication skills, including verbal, listening, and written communication

• High attention to detail

• Proficiency in facilitation and conflict resolution

Travel Requirements & Working Conditions

• This role typically requires no more than 10% travel, supporting a healthy work-life balance

• To thrive in this role, you’ll need a reliable internet connection to take advantage of remote work opportunities

How You’ll Be Rewarded

✅ 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.

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