Senior Manager, Community Marketing & Managing Editor

Workato•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

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.

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, 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 Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.