About the Role
Serve as the most senior technology voice to Workato's largest customers, prospects, and the market. This C-suite-caliber executive will operate as a peer to CIOs, CTOs, and CDOs of Fortune 500 customers, influencing executive committees and bringing field intelligence back to inform product roadmap and go-to-market strategy.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the senior technology counterpart to CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and Boards at top strategic accounts.
- Lead executive briefings, advisory councils, strategic visioning sessions, and architecture reviews.
- Present to customer Boards and executive committees on AI execution strategy, agentic operating models, governance, and the economics of enterprise automation.
- Build alignment across business and technology stakeholders.
- Partner with Sales leadership on Workato's largest, most strategic, and most complex enterprise pursuits.
- Strengthen executive sponsorship and expand the strategic scope of opportunities.
- Advise customers on enterprise AI adoption, intelligent automation, modern integration architecture, governance models, and organizational readiness.
- Help executive teams define pragmatic roadmaps for sustainable business transformation.
- Serve as a primary spokesperson at industry events, analyst briefings, executive forums, and customer advisory councils.
- Author keynotes, executive point-of-view papers, and strategic content.
- Translate field signals into direct input to the CEO, CPO, CTO, and Product organization on roadmap priorities, platform strategy, competitive positioning, and emerging customer requirements.
- Coach Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, and Sales leadership on executive engagement, strategic technology positioning, and boardroom storytelling.
- Build repeatable frameworks that scale Workato's executive motion.
Requirements
- Enterprise Chief Information Officer (CIO) or Chief Technology Officer (CTO) experience at a Fortune 500 / Global 2000 organization.
- Ownership of enterprise architecture, application portfolios, technology strategy, and transformation at scale.
- Executive-level experience at an enterprise software vendor selling into the Fortune 500 (iPaaS, AI/ML, cloud platforms, data, ERP, or adjacent infrastructure) OR a customer-facing operator role representing company products/platform to enterprise customers, advisory boards, and industry analysts.
- 15+ years of senior technology leadership.
- 5+ years at the C-suite or equivalent executive level.
- Deep fluency in enterprise integration architecture, AI and agentic systems, data platforms, cloud architecture, and the modern enterprise application ecosystem (Salesforce, SAP, Workday, ServiceNow, NetSuite, Oracle, Microsoft).
- Demonstrated success leading large-scale digital transformation with measurable business outcomes.
- A compelling storyteller and communicator, with executive presence proven through Board work, public speaking, analyst engagement, media, or published thought leadership.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity, influencing without formal authority, navigating matrixed organizations, and moving at the pace of a high-growth platform company.
- Naturally curious and commercially minded, energized by helping customers solve complex strategic challenges.
- Possess the judgment and executive maturity expected by the world's largest enterprises.
Skills
- Enterprise integration architecture
- AI and agentic systems
- Data platforms
- Cloud architecture
- Modern enterprise application ecosystem (Salesforce, SAP, Workday, ServiceNow, NetSuite, Oracle, Microsoft)
- Executive engagement
- Strategic technology positioning
- Boardroom storytelling
- Public speaking
- Analyst engagement
- Thought leadership
Location
- Remote, United States
- Proximity to a major airport hub strongly preferred
Work Type
- Remote
- Approximately 60% travel
Experience Level
- 15+ years of senior technology leadership
- 5+ years at the C-suite or equivalent executive level
Salary/Compensations
- Compensation commensurate with C-suite executive talent - competitive base, performance incentives, and meaningful equity.
Benefits
- Flexible, trust-oriented culture
- Vibrant and dynamic work environment
- Multitude of benefits
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.
- Provides the trusted foundation for organizations to automate with confidence and operationalize AI across the business.
- Fosters a flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take full ownership of their roles.
- Driven by innovation and looking for team players who want to actively build our company.
- Believes in balancing productivity with self-care.
- Recognized by Business Insider as an “enterprise startup to bet your career on”.
- Recognized by Forbes’ Cloud 100 as one of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world.
- Ranked by Deloitte Tech Fast 500 as the 17th fastest growing tech company in the Bay Area, and 96th in North America.
- Ranked by Quartz as the #1 best company for remote workers.
