As a Lead Product Manager, you will define and execute complex strategies across a significantly complex product area, for one or more of our products. You will own a domain that has significant implications for our customer/user base or that is critical to unlocking a new market opportunity or competitive differentiation for Workiva. Your primary responsibility involves leading comprehensive product strategy definition, decision-making, and execution of complex discovery, planning, design, product definition, and development. This role requires balancing investments to manage risk and maintain product quality while delivering on a highly impactful product vision. We currently have multiple Lead PM openings across our Product organization. Each will focus on different parts of the enterprise journey (platform and solution). In the application process, you’ll have the opportunity to indicate which track aligns best with your experience and career goals. We review every applicant holistically and will partner with you to find the best fit within our team.<h2>What You’ll Do</h2>Strategy &amp; Vision<ul><li>Define and drive the end-to-end product vision and strategy for your area</li><li>Lead comprehensive product strategy definition and execution of complex discovery</li><li>Deliver and evangelize product vision and strategy to senior audiences, including solution pillar/tier and R&amp;D leadership, with increasing autonomy</li><li>Work on highly ambiguous problems where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible factors</li><li>Identify and execute opportunities to integrate AI and Machine Learning to automate complex workflows, enhance data discovery, and provide predictive insights for enterprise customers</li></ul>Product Roadmap Development<ul><li>Own and maintain a set of multi-year product roadmaps</li><li>Identify, validate, and prioritize needle-moving product investment opportunities that drive growth and expansion</li><li>Effectively prioritize and sequence feature development and releases for multiple teams, a product domain, or multiple solutions</li><li>Lead execution for complex planning across multiple product development teams and business functions</li></ul>Feature Definition &amp; Delivery<ul><li>Lead decision-making and execution for complex design, product definition, and development across multiple product development teams</li><li>Collaborate extensively with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, User Experience, Customer Success, and Go-to-market teams, to drive the vision, roadmap, and delivery of the product</li><li>Own the launch and Go-to-Market (GTM) activities that may span multiple complex releases</li><li>Consistently and proactively define release strategies for controlled deployment of new product capabilities</li><li>Mentor Associate Product Managers, Product Managers, and Senior Product Managers through various issues, helping them develop stronger capabilities and skills across the board</li><li>Partner with Engineering and Legal to ensure AI features are built with the highest standards of data ethics, transparency, and enterprise-grade security</li></ul>Metrics, Outcomes &amp; Execution Excellence<ul><li>Judge product success using qualitative evidence and quantitative metrics and inform product decisions</li><li>Partner with others to identify long-term investment opportunities, collect performance metrics, and form hypotheses for complex technical needs</li><li>Manage risk at a product or solution level along with risks at a broader pillar or tier level</li></ul><h2>What You’ll Need</h2>Minimum Qualifications<ul><li>Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience in Product Management</li><li>Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of relevant career experience and expertise</li><li>Demonstrated success leading product management efforts, including ownership of product vision, strategy, and execution of products that drive strong customer value </li></ul>Preferred Qualifications<ul><li>Ability to use data to drive decisions, from analyzing product telemetry to measuring financial impact</li><li>Significant subject matter expertise of the assigned product area and associated competitive landscape</li><li>Strong leadership skills and the ability to influence and inspire across multiple teams and job functions</li><li>Experience delivering software in an agile development environment, leveraging iterative development and continuous deployment practices</li><li>Proven ability to break down complex problems into viable incremental units of customer and business value</li><li>Strong analytical, problem solving, and prioritization skills</li><li>Ability to work across multiple time-zones with geographically dispersed teams</li></ul><h3></h3><h3>Travel Requirements &amp; Working Conditions</h3><ul><li>Ability to travel to meet with customers and/or key stakeholders, product teams in other Workiva locations (up to 20%)</li><li>Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely and not in a Workiva office</li></ul>How You’ll Be Rewarded✅ Salary range in the US: $151,000.00 - $242,000.00✅ A discretionary bonus typically paid annually✅ Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire✅ 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits packageThe 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 <a href="mailto:talentacquisition@workiva.com">talentacquisition@workiva.com</a>.  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.#LI-KP1

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Lead Product Manager

As a Lead Product Manager, you will define and execute complex strategies across a significantly complex product area, for one or more of our products. You will own a domain that has significant implications for our customer/user base or that is critical to unlocking a new market opportunity or competitive differentiation for Workiva. Your primary responsibility involves leading comprehensive product strategy definition, decision-making, and execution of complex discovery, planning, design, product definition, and development. This role requires balancing investments to manage risk and maintain product quality while delivering on a highly impactful product vision. We currently have multiple Lead PM openings across our Product organization. Each will focus on different parts of the enterprise journey (platform and solution). In the application process, you’ll have the opportunity to indicate which track aligns best with your experience and career goals. We review every applicant holistically and will partner with you to find the best fit within our team.<h2>What You’ll Do</h2>Strategy &amp; Vision<ul><li>Define and drive the end-to-end product vision and strategy for your area</li><li>Lead comprehensive product strategy definition and execution of complex discovery</li><li>Deliver and evangelize product vision and strategy to senior audiences, including solution pillar/tier and R&amp;D leadership, with increasing autonomy</li><li>Work on highly ambiguous problems where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible factors</li><li>Identify and execute opportunities to integrate AI and Machine Learning to automate complex workflows, enhance data discovery, and provide predictive insights for enterprise customers</li></ul>Product Roadmap Development<ul><li>Own and maintain a set of multi-year product roadmaps</li><li>Identify, validate, and prioritize needle-moving product investment opportunities that drive growth and expansion</li><li>Effectively prioritize and sequence feature development and releases for multiple teams, a product domain, or multiple solutions</li><li>Lead execution for complex planning across multiple product development teams and business functions</li></ul>Feature Definition &amp; Delivery<ul><li>Lead decision-making and execution for complex design, product definition, and development across multiple product development teams</li><li>Collaborate extensively with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, User Experience, Customer Success, and Go-to-market teams, to drive the vision, roadmap, and delivery of the product</li><li>Own the launch and Go-to-Market (GTM) activities that may span multiple complex releases</li><li>Consistently and proactively define release strategies for controlled deployment of new product capabilities</li><li>Mentor Associate Product Managers, Product Managers, and Senior Product Managers through various issues, helping them develop stronger capabilities and skills across the board</li><li>Partner with Engineering and Legal to ensure AI features are built with the highest standards of data ethics, transparency, and enterprise-grade security</li></ul>Metrics, Outcomes &amp; Execution Excellence<ul><li>Judge product success using qualitative evidence and quantitative metrics and inform product decisions</li><li>Partner with others to identify long-term investment opportunities, collect performance metrics, and form hypotheses for complex technical needs</li><li>Manage risk at a product or solution level along with risks at a broader pillar or tier level</li></ul><h2>What You’ll Need</h2>Minimum Qualifications<ul><li>Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience in Product Management</li><li>Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of relevant career experience and expertise</li><li>Demonstrated success leading product management efforts, including ownership of product vision, strategy, and execution of products that drive strong customer value </li></ul>Preferred Qualifications<ul><li>Ability to use data to drive decisions, from analyzing product telemetry to measuring financial impact</li><li>Significant subject matter expertise of the assigned product area and associated competitive landscape</li><li>Strong leadership skills and the ability to influence and inspire across multiple teams and job functions</li><li>Experience delivering software in an agile development environment, leveraging iterative development and continuous deployment practices</li><li>Proven ability to break down complex problems into viable incremental units of customer and business value</li><li>Strong analytical, problem solving, and prioritization skills</li><li>Ability to work across multiple time-zones with geographically dispersed teams</li></ul><h3></h3><h3>Travel Requirements &amp; Working Conditions</h3><ul><li>Ability to travel to meet with customers and/or key stakeholders, product teams in other Workiva locations (up to 20%)</li><li>Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely and not in a Workiva office</li></ul>How You’ll Be Rewarded✅ Salary range in the US: $151,000.00 - $242,000.00✅ A discretionary bonus typically paid annually✅ Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire✅ 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits packageThe 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 <a href="mailto:talentacquisition@workiva.com">talentacquisition@workiva.com</a>.  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.#LI-KP1

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