[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Workiva Inc.

Role Description

You will build and lead the engineering team behind GRC Reporting, a new domain that unifies how reporting works across all of Workiva’s GRC solutions. This role is accountable for the health of a delivery pipeline, the growth of the engineers on it, and the quality bar the team holds itself to. You will own the engineering decisions, architecture, and resourcing for a domain where AI-native reporting is the north star.

What You’ll Own

• Team & Delivery Leadership
  • Lead a team of engineers, assigning roles and tasks based on team goals and individual growth areas.
  • Own the delivery schedule for your team and communicate risk to group leadership early.
  • Own the reporting system, principles, and patterns that govern how reporting looks, behaves, and connects across all GRC solutions.
  • Drive development of the composition layer: charts, narrative, tables, dynamic data, template import, and report generation.
  • Build and maintain lineage, versioning, and persistence infrastructure that makes outputs trustworthy and defensible.
  • Define and execute product quality strategy in partnership with group leaders and individual contributors.
  • Reinforce Workiva values, principles, product development standards, and agile practices across your squad(s).
• People Leadership
  • Assess and document individual performance accurately, recognizing real contribution and growth, not just output volume.
  • Run regular 1:1s that build trust and surface what’s actually going on, not just status updates.
  • Coach engineers through career development, technical growth, and obstacles, including hard conversations when performance needs to change.
  • Own team health: build a positive, engaged environment and resolve conflict directly rather than letting it fester.
  • Prioritize your reports’ growth deliberately, identifying and creating opportunities that match where they want to go.
  • Participate actively in recruiting, selection, and onboarding of new team members.
• Cross-Functional & Technical Ownership
  • Serve as the engineering voice in the GRC Reporting triad alongside the Product Manager and UX Lead, shaping domain direction together.
  • Manage collaboration at the “seam” where outcome teams (controls management, audit management, risk management) hand off data and workflow into the reporting experience; define handoffs clearly and early.
  • Define how GRC data needs to be structured to be reportable, and hold outcome teams accountable for meeting those requirements.
  • Represent your team’s resourcing needs and priorities to group leadership with clear tradeoffs, not just requests.
  • Partner with group leaders to define and plan team and group objectives.
  • Identify technical risk early and communicate it clearly to leadership, before it becomes a fire.
• AI-Era Engineering Judgment
  • Build toward AI-native reporting workflows where reports are generated from actual GRC data and refined through natural language while maintaining full manual paths for practitioners who need them.
  • Ensure all AI-generated outputs are explainable, auditable, and traceable to source data.
  • Hold the quality bar for AI-generated content to the trust standard required by high-stakes GRC audiences: boards, audit committees, and regulators.
  • Evaluate your team’s output based on judgment and outcomes, not shipped volume, distinguishing genuine skill growth from AI-assisted output that looks productive but isn’t.
  • Ensure your team’s code review and quality gates keep pace with AI-generated code, catching hallucinated logic, subtle errors, and security gaps before they ship.
  • Coach engineers to work effectively with AI while keeping the ability to work and reason without it.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field with 5+ years of relevant engineering experience, or equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
• 3+ years directly managing engineers, including supervisory experience of supervisors and/or individual contributors.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects, set priorities, and meet deadlines in a high-compliance environment.
• A people-first mindset, with real experience in career development, performance coaching, and building team culture.
• Experience with GRC, compliance, audit, or risk management domains or similar high-compliance, high-stakes product domains.
• Experience building shared platform capabilities consumed by multiple product teams.
• Comfort with ambiguity. This is a new team with domain boundaries still being established through practice.
• Experience evaluating engineering output in an AI-augmented environment, able to tell the difference between genuine skill growth and AI-assisted volume.
• Strong communicator, comfortable in conflict resolution and facilitating hard discussions.
• Solid grounding in SDLC, computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design.
• Experience with automated testing or SDLC process improvement.
• Experience in an Agile development environment.
• Strong software testing background.

Travel & Working Conditions

• Willingness to travel up to 25% for team and corporate meetings.
• Reliable internet access for remote work, as we support flexible work arrangement.

Benefits

• Salary range in the US: $129,000.00 - $210,000.00.
• A discretionary bonus typically paid annually.
• Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire.
• 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package.