Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Workiva is a company providing an AI-powered platform for finance, risk, and sustainability. The Senior Technical Program Manager will coordinate complex, customer-facing software programs across Engineering, Product, and UX, removing delivery obstacles and aligning technical work with business needs. The role also involves using AI tools to improve execution and contributing to the TPMO’s AI operating model.
Responsibilities
- Continuously assess whether programs are structured to succeed, not just on schedule
- Ask the questions others are not asking, across any function. Read absence as a signal: the update that stopped coming, the risk nobody is naming, the decision that has been deferred longer than it should be
- Drive alignment across Engineering, Product, and UX as conditions change, reconciling divergence before it becomes an execution gap
- Engage in technical conversations with enough fluency to participate credibly: understanding architecture decisions, dependency risk, and sequencing implications
- Identify what is blocking forward progress and choose the right lever to remove it: facilitation, coordination, or escalation with a clear framing
- Synthesize cross-functional risks and ensure they reach the right owner with enough time to act
- Name what others are managing around. When a program is at structural risk, say so directly to the people who need to hear it
- Surface recurring friction patterns and drive improvements to how teams plan, coordinate, and execute
- Prepare the organization for ownership transitions before responsibility shifts, not after
- Use AI tools actively as part of how you work: synthesizing information, accelerating communication, and improving quality of shared context to reduce the coordination overhead that comes from manual status-gathering
- Track how AI-augmented development changes delivery patterns on your programs and contribute to the TPMO's AI operating model
Skills
- * 4+ years of technical program or project management experience within a software engineering environment
- * Bachelor's degree in a technical/STEM field or equivalent professional experience
- * Willingness to travel up to 10% for key team and corporate events
- * Reliable internet access for remote and flexible work arrangements
- * Demonstrated experience operating across Engineering, Product, and UX in a multi-team software organization, with a track record of influencing direction without direct authority
- * Active use of AI tools (such as Claude, Copilot, or LLM-based workflows) as a core part of how you work
- * Ability to engage credibly in technical conversations, including architecture, dependencies, and sequencing risk
- * Comfortable naming structural risk clearly, even when the message is unwelcome
- * Experience facilitating trade-off decisions and briefing at the director and VP level
- * Track record of identifying organizational root causes and driving durable solutions
- * Strong written communication; able to synthesize fragmented information into shared understanding
- * Experience applying and adapting delivery frameworks; you know when structure helps and when it creates friction
- * Understanding of how AI-augmented development changes how engineering teams plan and execute
- * Experience in GRC, compliance, financial reporting, or regulated-industry software
- * Comfortable building structure in ambiguous environments
Benefits
- A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
- Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
- 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package
- 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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