About the Role
CIOnews is building the editorial and community infrastructure for the next generation of CIO and Enterprise Architect leadership. This role is for the first dedicated owner of our community program, responsible for building the function from the ground up, including strategy, program design, member experience, and operations.
Responsibilities
- Define the operating model for the community, including member lifecycle, onboarding, engagement, and feedback loops.
- Plan and execute community activations such as executive dinners, roundtables, and co-branded events.
- Propose and evaluate new community initiatives like vertical cohorts, recognition programs, or peer working groups.
- Build and maintain relationships with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, CAIOs, CISOs, and Enterprise Architects.
- Represent CIOnews credibly in meetings with senior technology leaders and at events.
- Act as a primary point of contact for community members, understanding their priorities to make low-friction asks.
- Source, recruit, and shape story ideas based on community relationships and editorial judgment.
- Partner with the editorial team to translate practitioner conversations into published content like podcasts, columns, and interviews.
Requirements
- 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, with demonstrated business outcomes.
- Strong opinions on effective community program strategies for specific audiences.
- Editorial instincts and business acumen to identify interesting enterprise IT topics.
- A builder's mindset, comfortable defining processes in ambiguous environments.
- Systems thinker eager to use AI to scale community operations.
- Direct experience in an IT leadership or Enterprise Architect role is a plus.
- Experience at a business publication or trade publication for IT leadership is a plus.
- Familiarity with enterprise AI, automation, or integration platforms is a plus.
- Existing relationships with CIOs or practitioner organizations is a plus.
Skills
- Community Building
- Program Design
- Member Experience
- Operations
- Relationship Management
- Executive Engagement
- Content Development
- Editorial Judgment
- AI-Native Operations
- Systems Thinking
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5-10+ years
Benefits
- Flexible work environment
- Trust-oriented culture
- Dynamic work environment
About the Company
- 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.
- Workato provides the trusted foundation for organizations to automate with confidence and operationalize AI across the business.
- Workato believes in fostering a flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take full ownership of their roles.
- Workato is driven by innovation and looking for team players who want to actively build our company.
- Workato believes in balancing productivity with self-care.
- Business Insider named Workato an “enterprise startup to bet your career on”.
- Forbes’ Cloud 100 recognized Workato as one of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world.
- Deloitte Tech Fast 500 ranked Workato as the 17th fastest growing tech company in the Bay Area, and 96th in North America.
- Quartz ranked Workato the #1 best company for remote workers.
