About Workato

Workato delivers enterprise infrastructure for the agentic era, redefining iPaaS and helping enterprises unify data, applications, processes, and AI into a single, governed platform. A leader in Enterprise MCP and trusted by 50% of the Fortune 500, Workato’s cloud-native architecture connects every application, data source, and process to power real-time orchestration at scale. With enterprise-grade security and continuous innovation at its core, Workato provides the trusted foundation for organizations to automate with confidence and operationalize AI across the business. To learn more, visit www.workato.com

Why join us?

Ultimately, Workato believes in fostering a flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take full ownership of their roles. We are driven by innovation and looking for team players who want to actively build our company. 

But, we also believe in balancing productivity with self-care. That’s why we offer all of our employees a vibrant and dynamic work environment along with a multitude of benefits they can enjoy inside and outside of their work lives. 

If this sounds right up your alley, please submit an application. We look forward to getting to know you!

Also, feel free to check out why:

• Business Insider named us an “enterprise startup to bet your career on”

• Forbes’ Cloud 100 recognized us as one of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world

• Deloitte Tech Fast 500 ranked us as the 17th fastest growing tech company in the Bay Area, and 96th in North America

• Quartz ranked us the #1 best company for remote workers

Responsibilities

CIOnews is building the editorial and community infrastructure for the next generation of CIO and Enterprise Architect leadership. CIOnews.com is a vendor neutral independent publication and community backed by Workato, and we're hiring the first dedicated owner of our community program. 

You'll build the CIO and Enterprise Architect community function from the ground up: strategy, program design, member experience, operations, and create the relationships that make it all work. There is no existing playbook to inherit at CIOnews. That requires a builder mindset and creative approach that internalizes the goal to build www.cionews.com into the new voice of IT leadership in the AI era.

This is a builder's role for someone who thrives in ambiguity. You'll be defining how CIOnews creates value for the CIO and enterprise architect communities, and help us identify, recruit, and sustain relationships with senior technology leaders. You’ll work closely with our editorial team to convert those relationships into columns, podcast appearances, events, and more.

In this role, you will also be responsible to:

Community Building & Activation

• Define the operating model for this community: member lifecycle, how members are identified, onboarded, and kept engaged between touchpoints, and the feedback loops that route ideas back into editorial.

• Plan and help execute community activations, including executive dinners, roundtables, and co-branded events with partners.

• Propose and evaluate new plays as the community matures — vertical cohorts, recognition programs, awards, or peer working groups.

Executive Engagement

• Build and maintain a working relationship base of CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, CAIOs, CISOs, and Enterprise Architects

• Represent CIOnews credibly in rooms with senior technology leaders, at CIOnews events, dinners, and peer gatherings.

• Act as a primary point of contact for community members, understanding their priorities well enough to make smart, low-friction asks.

Content Development

• Source, recruit, and shape story ideas with good editorial judgment drawn from community relationships.

• Partner with the CIOnews editorial team to translate practitioner conversations into published content — podcasts, columns, interviews, and feature pieces.

• Bring genuine editorial judgment: know a good story when a community member mentions it in passing.

What you bring

• 5–10+ years of experience in executive community building, peer network management, or a closely related field — experience driving CIO or enterprise architect communities is a plus

• Experience building and scaling community, champions, or advocacy programs at enterprise SaaS or developer tools companies, and can point to the business outcomes they drove

• Strong, earned opinions about what makes these programs work, including how to create value for these specific audiences and keep them engaged over the long term

• Editorial instincts: you can spot a story and have the business acumen and level of understanding of enterprise IT topics to know what is and is not interesting

• A builder's mindset: energized by ambiguity, comfortable defining a process where none exists yet, rather than executing an established playbook.

• Systems thinker: AI-native operator who treats AI as core infrastructure for the community motion. You are eager to find ways to use AI to scale relationship tracking, content sourcing, and outreach well beyond what manual processes could support.

Nice to have

• Direct experience in a IT leadership or Enterprise Architect role, or covering that audience as a journalist or analyst.

• Experience at a business publication or trade publication for IT leadership

• Familiarity with enterprise AI, automation, or integration platforms, and how those topics surface in CIO and EA conversations.

• Existing relationships with CIOs or practitioner organizations such as CIO peer networks.

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