Senior Engineering Manager
Senior Engineering Manager
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$ 151000 - 242000
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Job Description
At Workiva were 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 youll 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 youll provide technical leadership nurture a diverse team and strategically guide efforts to ensure successful product development. Youll play a crucial role in fostering a supportive inclusive environment where team members feel empowered to learn experiment and contribute innovative solutions.
What Youll 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 wont 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 Workivas 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 Youll 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 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 youll need a reliable internet connection to take advantage of remote work opportunities
How Youll Be Rewarded
Salary range in the US: $151000.00 - $242000.00A 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.
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 .
Workiva employees are required to undergo comprehensive security and privacy training tailored to their roles ensuring adherence to company policies and regulatory standards.
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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Employment Type
Full-Time
