Solution Development Consultant

Workiva Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 111,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Workiva Inc. seeks a Solution Development Consultant to apply GenAI engineering to complex reporting and regulatory challenges.

You will design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions on the Workiva platform for customers in financial reporting, sustainability disclosure, tax transparency, and audit. The role blends customer delivery with hands-on AI development, including agent-based workflows and system integration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience is required.
• Experience delivering software solutions to enterprise customers is preferred.
• Familiarity with prompt engineering, agent architectures, RAG, and AI lifecycle management is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Own the hardest customer problems end-to-end across multiple deployments.
• Design and deploy AI-powered workflows with governance and human review in regulated environments.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to regulatory, operations, and IT stakeholders to drive measurable outcomes.
• Turn field learnings into patterns and reusable platform capabilities for Product and Engineering.

Skills

Prompt engineering

Agent-based architectures

RAG (retrieval-augmented generation)

Evaluation frameworks

AI lifecycle management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

SAP

Oracle

ServiceNow

Salesforce

Job description

## Solution Development ConsultantApplylocations: USA - Remoteposted on: Posted Yesterdayjob requisition id: R12178**Summary**As part of Workiva's Growth Solutions team, the Solution Development Consultant serves as a forward-deployed builder, applying GenAI engineering to complex reporting and regulatory challenges. Working directly with customers across financial reporting, sustainability disclosure, tax transparency, audit, and other regulated domains, this role designs, builds, and deploys AI-powered solutions on the Workiva platform. Success requires balancing innovation with the governance, auditability, and scalability needed for production use in highly regulated environments.This is not a traditional implementation role. The Solution Development Consultant combines customer-facing solution delivery with AI application development, including agent-based workflows, prompt engineering, system integration, and solution architecture. In close partnership with customer stakeholders, Sales, Product Management, and Engineering, this role defines new solutions through deeply understanding customer needs.The SDC works within a purpose-built operating model alongside Product Management and Engineering. Product owns solution strategy and roadmap; Engineering builds and maintains the platform; the SDC owns what happens at the edge, deploying existing and emerging platform capabilities against real customer problems while continuously feeding discoveries back to Product and Engineering. This role solves immediate customer problems while creating reusable patterns and insights that help shape future platform capabilities.**What You'll Do**Own the hardest customer problems end-to-end* Take ambiguous, first-of-their-kind customer problems and drive them from prototype to stable production across multiple deployments. You own technical delivery, and you own whether it actually works for the customerDesign and deploy AI-powered workflows* Design and deploy AI-powered workflows that address real customer challenges, building, testing, and operationalizing solutions while establishing appropriate controls for human review, exception management, and governance in regulated environments. The specific techniques evolve constantly; what matters is the ability to work at the frontier, figure out what hasn't been figured out yet, and turn that into something stable and repeatableDrive customer outcomes* Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer regulatory, operations, and IT stakeholders. Facilitate executive discussions, technical workshops, and solution reviews while helping customers achieve measurable business outcomes and long-term adoptionShape the next generation of customer solutions through hands-on development* Fieldwork is where the next generation of platform capability comes from. Turn recurring customer problems and real-world outcomes into the evaluation criteria, patterns, and priorities that Product and Engineering build into the platform. The frontier moves because of what is found at the edgeContribute to a compounding knowledge base* What you discover at the customer becomes what the team knows collectively. You'll contribute patterns, methods, and field learnings into the shared knowledge environment, building a compounding base of expertise that every SDC draws on. That includes peer mentoring, but the real contribution is the institutional knowledge you build, not just the individual relationships**What You'll Need**Minimum Qualifications* Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience* 5+ years of experience delivering software solutions to enterprise customersPreferred Qualifications* Experience with reporting and analytics technology, financial, sustainability, governance, risk, compliance, or adjacent domains* Experience configuring, customizing, and delivering software solutions in customer environments, owning complex implementations from requirements through deployment and adoption* Ability to engage credibly with both technical and business stakeholders, including regulatory teams, IT, and executive sponsors* Familiarity with enterprise platforms such as SAP, Oracle, ServiceNow, Salesforce, or comparable ecosystems and common integration patterns* Experience working alongside external implementation partners, advisory firms, systems integrators, or audit firms* Knowledge of prompt engineering, agent-based architectures, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), evaluation frameworks, and AI application lifecycle management**Travel Requirements and Working Conditions*** 25% Travel for internal meetings* Reliable internet access for any period of time, working remotely and not in a Workiva officeWorkiva will not provide visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. on a permanent basis.**How You’ll Be Rewarded** Salary range in the US: $111,000.00 - $180,000.00 A discretionary bonus typically paid annually Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits packageThe 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] 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.*