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    Senior Product Manager, Platform Operations - Ames, United States - Workiva

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    Summary

    As the Senior Product Manager, Platform Operations, you will define and drive product vision and strategy within Workiva's Platform Operations team.

    This team is tasked with proactively identifying and developing new internal products and solutions that advance platform performance, operational excellence and enable developer efficiency.

    Your primary customers will be the Workiva business and its R&D group.

    You will work closely with our internal users and business stakeholders to understand their needs and pain points and prioritize and sequence feature development and releases leading to significant and tangible business value.

    You will build strong working relationships across multiple engineering, design, project management, and business teams, and work closely with senior leaders within product development and across the company.

    The right individual for the Senior Product Manager role within the Platform Operations team should have a strong background in the key technical areas associated with operating large distributed systems in production, such as Amazon Web Services, Cloud Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering, and Software Observability.

    They will leverage their understanding of these areas to inform decision-making, prioritize features, and collaborate with engineering teams to ensure successful internal product development.

    This role requires effectiveness in working in a highly technical product area with diverse users, and candidates should possess the ability and appetite to rapidly learn about new fields and technologies.

    What You'll Do

    Deeply understand the needs of our business and customers to build clarity on the requirements to build a resilient, reliable product

    Influence stakeholders and engineers with the right data points by driving clarity and alignment

    Create and drive alignment to execute faster, communicate often and highlight risk early

    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

    You will be an expert in identifying long-term investment opportunities and engaging partners to garner support for those feature areas

    You will own the roadmap for the product, and collaborate with internal and external stakeholder to execute the vision

    As an expert, you will partner with others to collect performance metrics and form hypotheses for complex technical needs in order to improve product development in multiple areas

    Use your insights and knowledge from enterprise customers, as well as broad technical subject matter expertise, to train and enable a scalable product

    What You'll Need

    Minimum qualifications

    6 years of related experience in a product role in software or other related field

    Bachelor's degree; an advanced degree may be considered in lieu of professional experience

    Preferred qualifications

    Experience and proficiency in utilizing AWS services for building and managing distributed systems.

    Knowledge of tools and practices for monitoring, logging, and tracing software systems to ensure visibility and troubleshoot issues effectively.

    Expertise in designing, and delivering products targeting cloud-based infrastructure, ensuring scalability and reliability.

    MBA degree

    A proven track record of leading the development of product vision and strategy

    Experience delivering software in an agile development environment using continuous deployment techniques

    Shipped products with great customer experience user reviews

    A self-starter mindset to execute in a fast-paced environment with minimal direction

    An excellent understanding of product development and how web technologies work

    Ability to work collaboratively in an environment that promotes constant team communication

    Strong Leadership skills – the ability to influence and inspire across multiple teams and job functions

    Excellent verbal and written communication skills

    Strong analytical, problem solving, and prioritization skills

    Travel Requirements & Working Conditions

    Willingness to travel up to 20% for team and corporate meetings, fostering relationships and representing company interests

    Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, as we embrace flexible work arrangements

    How You'll Be Rewarded

    Salary range in the US:
    $120, $204,000.00

    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.

    Where You'll Work

    Our values drive how we work and who we hire.

    You will see these values ingrained in how we support our customers, work with team members, build our products and in the work environment we've created.


    We believe our people are our greatest asset, and our unique culture gives employees the opportunity to make an impact everyday.

    We give our employees the freedom and resources they need—backed by our culture of collaboration and diverse thought—to continue innovating and breaking new ground.

    We hire talented people with a wide range of skills and experiences who are eager to tackle some of today's most challenging problems.

    At Workiva, you'll enjoy

    Fantastic Benefits:

    With coverage starting day one, choose from competitive health, dental, and vision plans on the largest physician networks available.


    Casual Dress:
    Workiva has a casual work environment, most people wear jeans to the office.

    Involvement:
    Ability to participate in Business Employee Resource Groups (Black, Hispanic, Asian, Women, Rainbow (LGBTQIA+), Veterans, Disabilities), Volunteering, Company wide celebrations, and more

    Work-life Balance: We have competitive PTO, VTO and Parental Leave. We encourage employees to spend time enjoying life outside of work.
    Learn more about life at Workiva:


    Learn more about benefits:
    Workiva is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We believe that great minds think differently.

    We value diversity of backgrounds, beliefs, and interests, and we recognize diversity as an important source of intellectual thought, varied perspective, and innovation.

    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.

    We strongly encourage and welcome people from historically marginalized groups to apply.

    Workiva is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. To request assistance with the application process, please email

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    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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