Vice President of Product and Technology PMO

Workiva is seeking an exceptional PMO executive to lead and evolve our Product & Technology Program Management Office as the company enters its next phase of growth, beyond $1B ARR. This leader will drive execution excellence across R&D, ensuring that our most critical product, platform, and enterprise initiatives are delivered with clarity, discipline, and confidence.

This role is for a strategic, influential leader who elevates how a product and technology organization plans, prioritizes, and delivers  
VP of Product & Tech PMO will shape and operate the organization’s operating rhythm, bringing a proactive, business-driven approach to portfolio leadership and execution.

As a core member of the Product & Technology leadership team, you will partner closely with the SVP & Head of Technology, the Chief Product Officer, and senior leaders across Product, Technology, and UX to lead annual and quarterly planning, clarify priorities and trade-offs, and ensure disciplined execution across the product and technology portfolio. This role serves as the connective tissue across strategy, investment, and delivery, ensuring teams are aligned on the right work, sequenced appropriately, and held to clear delivery commitments with transparent timelines and outcomes.

Strategic Leadership & Technology Operating Model

• Own and continuously mature the Technology and R&D planning and delivery operating model, spanning multi-year strategic planning, annual investment decisions, quarterly execution cycles, and release delivery

• Establish the PMO as a trusted strategic partner to Product, Engineering, and UX leadership, proactively shaping priorities and decisions rather than coordinating execution after the fact

• Drive prioritization and trade-off frameworks that balance customer value, business outcomes, capacity, and technical health

• Partner with business and GTM leaders on large, cross-company initiatives to ensure technology execution aligns with commercial objectives, regulatory commitments, and customer impact

• Bring commercial context into portfolio and execution discussions, proactively surfacing misalignment between strategy, investment, and expected business outcomes, and calling out high-risk areas early

• Own the definition, communication, and ongoing management of delivery commitments for the Technology portfolio, ensuring predictable timelines and early visibility into risks and trade-offs

• Elevate executive communication by translating complex delivery realities into clear, decision-oriented narratives for senior leadership

Portfolio, Planning & Execution Excellence

• Design, implement, and govern a lightweight, outcome-driven portfolio management approach spanning software engineering, platform, security, and infrastructure initiatives

• Lead portfolio-level planning, sequencing, and capacity alignment to ensure investments are clearly tied to strategic priorities and measurable outcomes

• Establish and maintain portfolio-level delivery confidence through clear sequencing, dependency management, and accountability for committed milestones across teams

• Provide executive-level visibility into progress, risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and resource allocation

• Partner with leaders to evolve delivery practices and tooling aligned with modern SaaS and product operating models

• Oversee critical cross-functional programs such as major product launches, platform modernization efforts, enterprise transformations, and M&A integrations

• Hold Product and Technology leaders accountable to delivery commitments with confidence, judgment, empathy, and strong executive presence

• Build, coach, and scale a high-performing PMO organization with a culture of ownership, intellectual…