Engineering Manager – GRC

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of engineers by assigning roles and responsibilities in alignment with team objectives and individual development areas.

• Take ownership of the delivery timeline and inform group leadership of any potential risks.

• Manage the issue resolution lifecycle for GRC solutions in collaboration with Product and Design teams.

• Oversee the management of issues and action plans, including workflows, approvals, notifications, escalations, evidence collection, and public APIs.

• Develop and sustain an audit trail, historical records, and evidence infrastructure.

• Define and implement a product quality strategy.

• Uphold Workiva values, product development standards, and agile methodologies.

• Evaluate and document the performance of team members.

• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings and mentor engineers in their career advancement, technical development, and challenges.

• Maintain team morale and address conflicts as they arise.

• Focus on the growth of team members and create opportunities for their development.

• Engage in the recruiting, selection, and onboarding processes.

• Collaborate with Product and UX leadership to shape the direction of the domain.

• Establish integration agreements with upstream solutions.

• Communicate resource requirements and priorities to group leadership.

• Collaborate with group leaders on strategic objectives.

• Identify and convey technical risks.

• Develop AI-assisted workflows while incorporating manual processes.

• Ensure that AI outputs are understandable, auditable, and traceable.

• Maintain quality and trust standards for audiences in high-stakes GRC environments.

• Assess outputs based on judgment and results.

• Ensure that code reviews and quality gates mitigate risks associated with AI-generated code.

• Mentor engineers on effective collaboration with AI while maintaining independent reasoning.

⛳️ Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in a related field with over 5 years of relevant engineering experience, or equivalent work experience in lieu of a degree.

• At least 3 years of direct management experience with engineers, including supervising other supervisors and/or individual contributors.

• Proven ability to manage complex projects, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines in a highly compliant environment.

• Experience in career development, performance coaching, and cultivating team culture.

• Familiarity with GRC, compliance, auditing, or risk management, or similar high-compliance and high-stakes product environments.

• Experience in developing shared platform capabilities utilized by multiple product teams.

• Proficient in workflow, state-machine, or case-management systems.

• Experience in assessing engineering outputs in an AI-augmented setting.

• Excellent communication, conflict resolution skills, and ability to facilitate challenging discussions.

• Strong foundation in the software development lifecycle (SDLC), computer science principles, data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design.

• Experience with automated testing or enhancing SDLC processes.

• Previous experience in an Agile development environment.

• Willingness to travel up to 25% for team and corporate meetings.

• Access to reliable internet for remote work.

🏝️ Benefits

• A discretionary bonus typically awarded annually.

• Restricted Stock Units granted upon hire.

• 401(k) matching program.

• Comprehensive benefits package for employees.

• Flexible work arrangements.

• Ability to work remotely from any location within the employee's country of employment.

• Reasonable accommodations available for applicants with disabilities.