Principal Product Manager, GRC

Workiva Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Restricted Stock Units

401(k) match

Job summary

Workiva Inc. is seeking a Principal Product Manager to shape the strategy and execution of a critical GRC portfolio. You will partner with engineering, design, and business leaders to drive 0→1 initiatives and enable successful GTM execution across Sales and Marketing.

You will translate customer insights into scalable product solutions, lead data-informed reviews, mentor teams, and influence platform-wide strategy in a complex enterprise SaaS environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience with progressively increasing responsibilities.
• Experience bringing a product from concept through public launch and GTM execution.
• Experience defining and driving product vision within Agile delivery environments across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a multi-product roadmap across complex platforms.
• Lead regular data-informed product reviews and refine long-term strategic plans.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Design, Sales, and Product Marketing to align feasibility, UX, and GTM.
• Translate vision into story maps, roadmaps, and clear feature specs.

Skills

Product strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Agile delivery

Mentoring

Story mapping

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree

Tools

Java

Go

Python

Kotlin

TypeScript

React

AWS

Kubernetes

Snowflake

Kafka

GenAI

Job description

As a Principal Product Manager, you will shape and execute the product strategy and vision across a critical portfolio area GRC. Partnering closely with engineering, design, and business leaders, you will lead complex initiatives that convert user feedback and market opportunities into high-impact software solutions. You will champion product management standard practices and serve as an impactful mentor within the organization. This is a highly visible role responsible for taking a 0→1 products from concept to market, shaping platform-wide strategy, and enabling go-to-market success across Sales and Marketing.

What You’ll Do

• Discovery & Strategy: Validate customer challenges across taxonomy groups to build intuitive, scalable solutions while driving acquisition, retention, and churn reduction goals.
• Product Leadership: Own the execution roadmap for multiple complex products/platforms, leading regular data-informed product reviews and refining long-term strategic plans.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Engineering, Product Design, Sales, and Product Marketing to align technical feasibility, customer experience, and go-to-market strategies.
• Execution & Clarity: Translate product vision into clear story maps, operational roadmaps, and feature specifications that keep multidisciplinary teams aligned.

What You’ll Need

• 10+ years of product management experience with progressively increasing responsibilities with a Bachelor’s degree (OR 8+ years with an Advanced Degree).
• Experience bringing a product from initial concept through public launch, including go-to-market execution, positioning, and cross-functional enablement.
• Experience defining and driving product vision and strategy within Agile delivery environments across cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree or equivalent business acumen.
• Practical ability to evaluate technical feasibility with engineering leaders building on microservices architectures (Java, Go, Python, Kotlin), modern frontend stacks (TypeScript, React), cloud & infrastructure stacks (AWS, Kubernetes), or data/AI platforms (Snowflake, Kafka, RAG/GenAI).
• Mastery of quantitative product analytics (e.g., Amplitude, Mixpanel, Pendo), qualitative user discovery frameworks, and structured prioritization methodologies (e.g., RICE, Kano) across distributed enterprise business units.
• Experience launching enterprise or SaaS products.
• Ability to operate as a platform-level thought leader influencing teams across engineering, design, security, and go-to-market.

Working Conditions & Travel Requirements

Ability to travel up to 25% to interact directly with customers, key partners, and product teams at alternative offices.

Reliable high-speed internet connection required during designated remote/hybrid workdays.

How You’ll Be Rewarded

Salary range in the US:

• 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.

Why Join Workiva

Workiva is the platform designed to bring confidence, control, and a competitive edge to the world’s most complex organizations. 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. The work you do here helps organizations navigate uncertainty, maintain trust, and make decisions that stand up to scrutiny. If you’re energized by meaningful challenges, inspired by collaborative teams, and motivated to help organizations turn uncertainty into advantage, we’d love to meet you.

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.

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

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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