Engineering Manager, AI-Driven GRC Reporting

Workiva Inc.; Town of Montana (WI); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

RSUs

401(k) match

Job summary

Workiva Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a cross-functional squad focused on GRC reporting and data-driven insights. You will guide delivery, shape the composition layer for reports, and ensure quality and auditable outputs across multiple products.

You’ll partner with product, UX, and group leaders to align objectives, manage risk, and foster a high-performing engineering culture in a remote-friendly environment.

Qualifications

• 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.

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 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.
• Hold the quality bar for AI-generated content to the trust standard required by high-stakes GRC audiences.
• Evaluate your team’s output based on judgment and outcomes, not shipped volume.
• Coach engineers to work effectively with AI while keeping the ability to work and reason without it.

Skills

Team leadership

People management

Communication

Agile

Conflict resolution

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Job description

Workiva Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a cross-functional squad focused on GRC reporting and data-driven insights. You will guide delivery, shape the composition layer for reports, and ensure quality and auditable outputs across multiple products.

You’ll partner with product, UX, and group leaders to align objectives, manage risk, and foster a high-performing engineering culture in a remote-friendly environment.