Workiva

Workiva

Senior Product Manager, Emerging Products & AI

USA - Remote · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$129k-$207kDetected 12 days ago
PythonSQLMachine LearningNLPLLMsAI OrchestrationUX DesignProduct ManagementAccountingAuditing

About the role

  • This is a technical, zero-to-one validation role focused on systemic exploration rather than static roadmap maintenance.
  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • Deep Customer Discovery & System Mapping: Lead qualitative user interviews, observational workflow walk-throughs, and technical discovery sessions to analyze how enterprise finance, compliance, and audit teams manage complex operational data.
  • Rapid Prototyping & Technical Validation: Collaborate closely with design and engineering partners to develop, script, and launch low- and high-fidelity validation concepts (utilizing tools like SQL, Python, Retool, or Streamlit).
  • You will define the interaction paradigms that dictate how autonomous agents collaborate with humans-ensuring the product interface clearly signals when an AI is making a probabilistic recommendation versus when deterministic rules apply.
  • You will champion the design of elegant human-in-the-loop touchpoints that allow users to easily audit, verify, and approve AI-driven outcomes without sacrificing workflow momentum
  • Agentic Boundary & Security Governance: Formulate, model, and implement digital authority boundaries for autonomous enterprise AI agents.
  • Design enterprise-grade, permission-aware access policies that precisely define what an agent can read, summarize, compile, update, escalate, or execute, ensuring absolute auditability under active corporate compliance guidelines
  • Cross-Functional Alignment & Performance Analysis: Act as the central, transparent product leader connecting technical engineering workflows, UX design iterations, data security requirements, and go-to-market (GTM) pilot rollouts.
  • Exceptional product craft with a deep focus on user psychology, interface transparency, and building high-trust solutions in risk-averse environments
  • Workiva's Growth organization is building the next generation of AI-native products.
  • uncovering systemic customer challenges, developing rapid technical prototypes, determining where artificial intelligence drives measurable value, and validating product-market fit with clear evidence before scaling.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated track record managing B2B SaaS applications, enterprise workflow automation software, data-intensive products, or corporate business tools
  • Proven experience translating highly ambiguous, unstructured user pain points into structured technical requirement documentation, validation roadmaps, and testable hypotheses
  • 6+ years of experience in product management or a closely related technical product-building role with a Bachelor's degree
  • OR 4+ years of experience with an Advanced Degree
  • Workiva employees are required to undergo comprehensive security and privacy training tailored to their roles, ensuring adherence to company policies and regulatory standards.

Nice to have

  • Background working within deeply regulated domains (e.g., corporate accounting, financial auditing, compliance reporting, risk management, legal operations, or ESG/sustainability tracking)
  • Ability to travel up to 20% to facilitate customer discovery workshops, align with internal distributed product teams, and represent Workiva at key industry conferences
  • Working Conditions & Travel Requirements
  • How You'll Be Rewarded
  • Why Join Workiva
  • Our AI-powered platform unifies finance, risk, and sustainability on a single, secure foundation-ensuring data is trusted, traceable, and ready to act on.
  • With an unbroken path from source to output, leaders gain confidence in their numbers, visibility into current and emerging risks, and the ability to move with speed and precision in a constantly changing world.
  • At Workiva, you'll bring technology to market that executives, boards, and regulators depend on.

Skills

  • Translate complex enterprise compliance anxieties into intuitive, high-trust agentic experiences.

Compensation

  • $129,000.00 - $207,000.00 ✅ A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
  • The salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job in the US.
  • The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and other relevant factors.

Benefits

  • ✅ Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
  • ✅ 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package

Company info

  • We are seeking a Senior Product Manager, to transform ambiguous, complex customer challenges into validated, high-trust enterprise product solutions.

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