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Creative Director, Product

Job Overview

Location

Palo Alto, California

Job Type

Full-time

Category

Software Engineering

Date Posted

June 3, 2026

Full Job Description

đź“‹ Description

  • • Lead, manage, and mentor a small team of 2–3 Digital Designers embedded within Workato’s Product Design team, owning their workload, prioritization, and professional growth.
  • • Stay hands-on with design work by taking on complex creative tasks directly, setting the quality bar, and modeling the standard for your team across all deliverables.
  • • Develop and evolve Workato’s visual creative identity to remain synergetic with the brand language and product design system across digital and product surfaces.
  • • Own the end-to-end design and delivery of YouTube videos for Product Hour, including scripting, animation, and post-production oversight.
  • • Design and deliver high-impact presentation decks for customer-facing roadmap sessions, investor meetings, and industry conferences.
  • • Create and maintain in-product visual assets including illustrations, icons, Pendo guides, and micro-interactions that enhance user understanding and experience.
  • • Design and produce visual assets for Workato’s product blog and documentation website, including illustrations, GIFs, and layout design for documentation pages.
  • • Manage stakeholder relationships across Product, Marketing, and Leadership teams, fielding inbound requests, aligning on priorities, and ensuring creative output supports strategic goals.
  • • Collaborate closely with Product Management and product-led growth teams globally to ensure creative work is integrated into product development cycles.
  • • Participate in design critiques, iterate on feedback, and contribute to a culture of high craft across the broader Product Design team.
  • • Streamline and own processes for workload distribution, feedback loops, and delivery timelines to ensure efficiency and consistency.
  • • Use collaborative tools including Figma, Adobe Illustrator, After Effects, Google Slides, Jira, and Slack to coordinate with cross-functional teams across time zones.
  • • Keep pace with industry trends in product design, motion graphics, and enterprise SaaS visual communication to continually refine Workato’s creative language and perception.
  • • Maintain an extremely high bar for quality, noticing and correcting details that others overlook, and holding your team to the same rigorous standard.

🎯 Requirements

  • • Experience leading a small team of 2–3 digital designers
  • • Experience creating a wide range of creative assets for tech products — including videos, animations, icons, GIFs, illustrations, and presentation decks
  • • Portfolio demonstrating skills in illustration, icon design, presentation decks, UI design, animation, and videography
  • • Strong stakeholder management skills with ability to navigate competing priorities and communicate clearly with product and marketing leaders
  • • Proficiency with Adobe Illustrator, After Effects, Figma, and Google Slides
  • • Comfort working at pace in a fast-moving environment with competing priorities

🏖️ Benefits

  • • Flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers employees to take full ownership of their roles
  • • Balance of productivity with self-care supported by company policies
  • • Vibrant and dynamic work environment
  • • Opportunity to work with a team recognized by Forbes’ Cloud 100 and Deloitte Tech Fast 500
  • • Work at a company ranked #1 best for remote workers by Quartz
  • • Collaborative, low-ego environment focused on craft and high-quality execution

Skills & Technologies

Remote

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About Workato, Inc.

Workato provides low-code/no-code enterprise automation and integration software that connects applications, data, and business processes across cloud and on-premises systems. Its platform offers pre-built connectors, recipes, and AI-powered workflow orchestration for finance, HR, IT, sales, support, and marketing functions. The company enables organizations to automate tasks without extensive coding, reducing manual effort and accelerating digital transformation initiatives. Workato serves mid-market to large enterprises worldwide through a subscription-based SaaS model, emphasizing security, governance, and scalability for complex integrations.

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