Senior Product Manager, Emerging Products & AI

Workiva's Growth organization is building the next generation of AI-native products. We are seeking a Senior Product Manager, to transform ambiguous, complex customer challenges into validated, high-trust enterprise product solutions. In this role, you will champion early product spaces from inception to evaluation: uncovering systemic customer challenges, developing rapid technical prototypes, determining where artificial intelligence drives measurable value, and validating product-market fit with clear evidence before scaling.

This is a technical, zero-to-one validation role focused on systemic exploration rather than static roadmap maintenance. Your core challenge will be architecting probabilistic AI experiences that deliver high utility while maintaining strict predictability, data security, and user safety within a highly regulated, high-trust enterprise compliance environment.

What You’ll Do

• *Deep Customer Discovery & System Mapping:* Lead qualitative user interviews, observational workflow walk-throughs, and technical discovery sessions to analyze how enterprise finance, compliance, and audit teams manage complex operational data. Diagram enterprise dependency structures, human-to-system handoffs, multi-stakeholder approval gates, and historical operational failure points
• *Hypothesis Formulation & Strategic Betting:* Synthesize messy, fragmented user signals into structured, reusable problem definitions rather than one-off custom feature requests. Translate field observations into precise product-market hypotheses, defining the explicit customer value, repeatability, and expected business impact of your proposed AI workflow interventions
• *Rapid Prototyping & Technical Validation:* Collaborate closely with design and engineering partners to develop, script, and launch low- and high-fidelity validation concepts (utilizing tools like SQL, Python, Retool, or Streamlit). Establish clear Minimum Viable Product (