Creative Director of Product, Workato
$160-205k
Integration & workflow automation platform
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Integration & workflow automation platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$160-205k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help businesses streamline their operations by providing a platform to automate their work and integrate their stacks, all in one place.
Role
Who you are
- Experience leading a small team of 2–3 digital designers
- Experience creating a wide range of creative assets for tech products — videos, animations, icons, GIFs, illustrations, and presentation decks
- A portfolio that demonstrates your skills across presentation design, videography, animation, illustration, and icon design. Experience in the enterprise SaaS space is a strong bonus
- An extremely high bar for quality — you notice the details that most people miss, and you hold your team to the same standard
- Strong stakeholder management skills — you're comfortable navigating competing priorities, communicating clearly with leaders across product and marketing, and advocating for your team's work with confidence and clarity
- Strong communication skills — verbal, interpersonal, and written. You can give clear feedback, set expectations proactively, and represent your team's work to a wide range of audiences
- Proficiency with Adobe Illustrator, After Effects, Figma, and Google Slides
- Comfort working at pace in a fast-moving environment with competing priorities
- Portfolio requirements: We're looking for a portfolio that demonstrates your skills in illustration, icon design, presentation decks, and UI design, along with examples of animation and videography
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Creative Director to lead a small but mighty team of Digital Designers embedded within Workato's Product Design team
- Your team sits at the intersection of product and brand — acting as the creative bridge between Workato's global product organization and its customers. You'll define and steward Workato's creative identity across a wide range of surfaces: from YouTube videos and conference decks to in-product illustrations, icons and documentation design. The work is varied, the impact is visible, and the standard is high
- This is a player-coach role. You'll manage the workload and growth of your team while staying personally hands-on with design work. A big part of what makes this role work is stakeholder management — you'll field inbound requests from across the company, align on priorities with leaders in product and marketing, and make sure your team's work lands well with the people it's made for
- You're energized by both the people side and the creative side, and you understand that the best design managers are still great designers
- If you love working on complex visual problems, have a sharp eye for craft, and thrive in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment — you'll fit right in
- Lead, manage, and mentor a team of Digital Designers — owning their workload, prioritization, and professional growth
- Stay hands-on with design work: take on complex creative tasks directly, set the quality bar, and model the standard for your team
- Develop and evolve Workato's visual creative identity, keeping it synergetic with the Workato brand language and product design system
- Own the design and delivery of a wide range of content, including YouTube videos for Product Hour, presentation decks for customer-facing roadmap sessions and conferences, and digital marketing campaigns
- Own the design and delivery of in-product assets, including product illustrations, icons and Pendo guides
- Own the design and delivery of assets for Workato's product blog and documentation website — illustrations, GIFs for blog articles, visual assets for product docs pages, and the website design for our documentation site
- Manage stakeholder relationships across product, marketing, and leadership — fielding inbound requests, setting expectations, aligning on priorities, and ensuring your team's work serves the right goals at the right time
- Collaborate with Product Management and product-led growth teams across Workato's global workforce
- Participate in design critiques, iterate on feedback, and contribute to a culture of high craft across the broader Product Design team
- Keep up with industry standards and continually refine and innovate on Workato's product perception and creative language
- Own processes and streamline workload distribution for your team
- Use collaborative tools like Slack, Figma, Jira, and Adobe Creative Cloud to work closely with colleagues across different projects and time zones
Our take
Many businesses struggle with lack of team integration. There are a plethora of handy apps available, and various teams within businesses often use different processes, tools, and software. This has led to many businesses attempting to patch together technologies and create ad-hoc solutions that fail when they need to be scaled. Workato allows businesses to integrate data and apps so that teams can collaborate and communicate securely.
Workato has built a single platform that integrates apps, processes, data, and user experiences to improve efficiency, communication, and business flexibility. There are many integration platforms available, such as SnapLogic and Mulesoft Anypoint Platform, however, Workato has aimed its platform at users who have minimal technical experience, rather than the IT team.
Workato has continued to expand its partnerships and workforce, and is well set to see further growth as it innovates its product offerings and capabilities. The company was recognized as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service, making five years it has participated and five years it has been recognized.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Sep 2021
$110m
SERIES D
Total funding: $415m
Company benefits
- Flexible Working Arrangements: We maintain a hybrid remote work model and provide everyone with best of breed technology tools that enable them to work anywhere, anytime.
- Great Employee Benefits: Such as an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), Health Insurance, Referral Bonuses, and Workato Stock Options, tailored to the countries that our employees are based in.
- Professional Development Opportunities: We support individual career ambitions, and set aside training programs and budgets they can tap on to upgrade both soft and hard skills.
- Dedicated Wellness: We make it a point to dedicate time to pause, recharge and get to know each other better.
- Recreation Time: From virtual game nights to fitness sessions, there's always time for a little fun on the calendars.
Company HQ
Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Vijay Tella
(Co-Founder & CEO)Spent 15 years as an Engineer at Teknekron and TIBCO, before joining Oracle as CSO. They also served as CEO at Qik, and VP at Skype.
Harish Shetty
(Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor)Previously held leadership roles in engineering at TIBCO, Blink, and iProfile.
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