Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Workiva is a platform company that unifies finance, risk, and sustainability on a secure foundation for complex organizations. The Engineering Manager will build and lead the GRC Reporting engineering team, owning delivery, architecture, resourcing, reporting infrastructure, AI-native workflows, and engineering quality. The role also includes people leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring reporting outputs are trustworthy, explainable, auditable, and traceable.
Responsibilities
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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. (AI capabilities that cannot be explained or traced back have no place in GRC Reporting)
- 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
Skills
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
- Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
- 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package
- Flexible work arrangement, with employees working either from an office or remotely from any location within their country of employment
- Reliable internet access for remote work
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