Principal Product Manager - Platform Security

Workiva is a platform designed to bring confidence, control, and a competitive edge to the world’s most complex organizations. They are seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead a strategic Account Security initiative, defining and building a premium security offering with advanced capabilities. This role involves driving product strategy, collaborating with engineering, and ensuring successful market launch and adoption.

Responsibilities:

• Own and drive the end-to-end product strategy for a paid Platform Security offering
• Define vision, roadmap, and success metrics for capabilities including BYOK, HYOK, audit logging, and related security features
• Identify market opportunities and customer needs to shape a differentiated enterprise security product
• Lead product development from ideation through launch and scale, partnering closely with engineering to deliver secure, scalable, and performant solutions
• Make principled tradeoffs between speed, risk, and long-term platform integrity
• Act as a thought leader across the platform organization, driving improvements in authentication, authorization, multi-tenant architecture, and organization management
• Influence platform standards, patterns, and best practices
• Work directly with enterprise customers to understand security requirements and validate solutions
• Partner with internal solution/product teams to ensure platform capabilities meet downstream needs
• Partner with Sales and Marketing to define packaging, pricing, and positioning for the security offering
• Enable Sales through clear value propositions, messaging, and supporting materials
• Drive successful product launches and adoption strategies

Requirements:

• 10+ years of Product Management experience, with significant time in platform or infrastructure products
• Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
• Track record of delivering 0→1 products and scaling them in market
• Experience launching enterprise or SaaS security products such as encryption, key management, or audit/compliance
• Prior engineering experience
• Deep understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM), Authentication & Authorization frameworks (OAuth, SAML, RBAC/ABAC), and Multi-tenant system design
• Expertise in encryption and key management concepts including BYOK, HYOK, and KMS integrations
• Ability to operate as a platform-level thought leader influencing teams across engineering, design, security, and go-to-market
• Strong intuition for balancing usability with robust security and compliance requirements