[Hiring] Director of Product Management @Workiva Inc.

Role Description

Workiva is seeking a strategic, collaborative Director of Product Management to lead our product vision, scale our core sustainability solutions, and guide emerging AI/ML initiatives. In this role, you will lead a dedicated team of product managers while partnering with Engineering, UX/Design, and Go-To-Market teams to deliver mission-critical reporting capabilities for CFOs, Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs), ESG controllers, and Risk leaders worldwide.

Our platform serves as the single source of truth for enterprise trust and transparency. We are seeking a leader who can translate evolving global sustainability regulations into intuitive, audit-ready workflows while operationalizing pragmatic AI capabilities—including agentic workflows and automated disclosures—to reduce manual operational burdens for global enterprises.

What You’ll Do

• Product Strategy and Roadmap
  • Customer-Centric Vision: Serve as the strategic voice of sustainability stakeholders—including CFOs, CSOs, and ESG controllers—translating complex reporting workflows into a cohesive, high-impact product roadmap.
  • Strategic AI Integration: Direct the roadmap for agentic AI and predictive insights across the sustainability suite, delivering automated disclosures, audit-ready anomaly detection, and actionable intelligence.
  • Market-Aligned Prioritization: Track emerging ESG mandates and regulatory developments globally (e.g., CSRD, SEC climate disclosure rules, ISSB) to identify market opportunities, reduce churn, and drive user retention.
  • Platform Alignment: Ensure all sustainability capabilities integrate seamlessly with Workiva’s core architecture and uphold our "Single Source of Truth" data model.
• Product Development and Management
  • People Leadership & Culture: Build, mentor, and advocate for a high-performing team of Product Managers, fostering an inclusive environment of continuous learning and AI-enabled product workflows.
  • Lifecycle Ownership: Oversee end-to-end product execution from discovery to scaled release, partnering with Engineering and UX to deliver high-quality, reliable enterprise features on schedule.
  • Data-Informed Continuous Discovery: Embed qualitative user research and quantitative metrics into every stage of development, measuring success through adoption, retention, CSAT, and customer time-to-value.
  • Execution Against Growth Targets: Translate overarching enterprise strategy into rigorous, measurable product outcomes aligned with multi-year growth objectives.
• Stakeholder Collaboration
  • Cross-Functional Partnering: Foster deep collaboration between product teams and Go-To-Market partners (Solution Engineering, Consulting, Sales, and Product Marketing) to ensure effective commercialization and enablement.
  • Executive & Architectural Alignment: Partner with senior leaders across Product, Engineering, and Design to synthesize complex regulatory, technical, and business constraints into actionable product plans.
  • Unified Go-To-Market Alignment: Co-design launch strategies, messaging, and customer-feedback feedback loops in partnership with Product Marketing and Customer Success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of experience in product management or related technical field, OR an advanced degree with 8+ years of experience.
• 4+ years of experience directly managing, mentoring, and developing Product Managers within an enterprise B2B SaaS environment.
• Demonstrated multi-year experience delivering enterprise SaaS products from discovery through scale, specifically managing complex data-driven capabilities, workflow automation, or analytics platform.
• Exceptional executive communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate technical trade-offs to both C-level buyers and engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Product leadership experience within FinTech, RegTech, ERP systems, or compliance-heavy environments handling complex regulatory reporting.
• Domain knowledge in corporate sustainability reporting frameworks (e.g., CSRD, SEC climate rules, ISSB, GHG Protocol).
• Proven track record of operationalizing Generative AI, LLMs, or agentic workflow automations in a live enterprise product.
• Practical understanding of the trade-offs inherent in AI features, including latency, cost-to-serve, context window limitations, and output verification/explainability.
• Experience navigating "0 to 1" product buildouts within an established enterprise SaaS organization.
• Experience with usage-based packaging, seat tiers, or value-based monetization models.

Working Conditions & Travel Requirements

• Ability to travel up to 25% for customer engagements, team offsites, and key industry events.
• Reliable broadband internet connection when operating remotely outside a Workiva physical office.

Benefits

• Salary range in the US: $177,000.00 - $290,000.00.
• A discretionary bonus typically paid annually.
• Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire.
• 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package.