Manager of Machine Learning - AI Modeling and Operation

Join our team at Workiva as an Manager of Machine Learning - AI Modeling and Operation ! As a pivotal member of our AI/ML team, you’ll own the infrastructure that makes every AI feature at Workiva reliable, observable, and deployable.

You will lead the team responsible for ML infrastructure, model operations, and AI quality at Workiva. Your team owns the systems that make AI reliable in production from model lifecycle management to evaluation frameworks, observability, and model routing across frontier providers. You'll build the operational backbone that every AI feature at Workiva depends on.

Join us if you want to own the infrastructure layer that makes enterprise AI work at scale, not just build demos. Discover more about Workiva's Generative AI .

What You’ll Do

Operational Excellence

Own the ML model lifecycle: training pipelines, model registry, deployment, monitoring, and guardrails

Build and maintain CI/CD for ML - automated testing, evaluation, and promotion of models across environments

Drive observability across AI services: latency tracking, drift detection, cost monitoring, alerting

Establish SLOs/SLIs for AI services and lead incident response for ML-related production issues and maintain high service availability

Reduce complexity through simplification, automation, and thoughtful system design

Leadership & Team Management

Lead and grow an existing strong team of machine learning engineers

Provide hands-on coaching, performance feedback, and growth opportunities for engineers at varying experience levels

Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-ownership team culture grounded in trust, accountability, and continuous improvement

Cross Functional Collaboration

Partner with Intelligence pillar engineering squads (AGFW, AIEI, AIQG, Applied AI, Search) and Product teams to ensure AI services are production-ready, operationally sound, and observable

Communicate complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences effectively

Technical Strategy & Execution

Manage integrations with frontier model providers (AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Google) including model routing, load balancing, and fallback strategies

Drive AI analytics dashboards that give leadership and product visibility into platform health and usage

Drive improvements in latency, service availability, developer experience, and integration usability across internal and external interfaces

Guide architectural decisions to ensure platform scalability, reliability, and alignment with Workiva’s long-term technical vision

What You’ll Need

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science or equivalent combination of education and experience

7+ years of total experience in software engineering and/or Machine Learning, with at least 2 years of dedicated experience as an Engineering Manager

Experience with ML pipeline orchestration tools (ClearML, Kubeflow, Airflow, or similar)

Hands-on background with Kubernetes, microservices, container orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code

Track record of improving reliability/availability metrics for production ML systems

Proven ability to manage senior individual contributors, resolve technical conflicts, and build a culture of psychological safety and high performance

Solid leadership skills in an Agile/Sprint working environment

Experience operating production ML systems in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science or equivalent combination of education and experience

Experience with core concepts of Generative AI such as RAG, Agentic frameworks, etc

Experience building model evaluation or quality measurement systems

Familiarity with cost optimization for GPU/model serving workloads

Familiarity with observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)

Working Conditions

Willingness to travel up to 15% for team and corporate meetings, fostering relationships and representing company interests

Reliable internet access for remote working opportunities

How You’ll Be Rewarded

✅ Salary range in the US: $163,000.00 - $290,000.00 ✅ A discretionary bonus typically paid annually

✅ Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire

✅ 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package

The 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 talentacquisition@workiva.com .

Workiva 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.

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