Senior Instructional Designer

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Palo Alto, CA, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Cloud • Enterprise Web • Information Technology • Productivity • Software
Workato helps companies integrate anything and automate everything.
The Role
The Senior Instructional Designer will create engaging learning experiences for Workato's products, collaborating across teams to enhance customer understanding and adoption. This role includes developing curriculum, crafting assessments, and utilizing feedback for continuous improvement.
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About Workato

Workato transforms technology complexity into business opportunity. As the leader in enterprise orchestration, Workato helps businesses globally streamline operations by connecting data, processes, applications, and experiences. Its AI-powered platform enables teams to navigate complex workflows in real-time, driving efficiency and agility.

Trusted by a community of 400,000 global customers, Workato empowers organizations of every size to unlock new value and lead in today’s fast-changing world. Learn how Workato helps businesses of all sizes achieve more at 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

As a Senior Instructional Designer, you will own the creation of highly engaging, technically accurate learning experiences that help customers, partners, and internal teams deepen their mastery of Workato’s Orchestrate and Agentic capabilities. You will leverage advanced instructional design skills and product domain knowledge to translate complex technical concepts into accessible and actionable learning content, supporting the adoption and effective use of Workato.

In this role, you will also be responsible to:

  • Curriculum Design: Develop and maintain learning paths, courses, and microlearning modules focused on Workato products (e.g. Agent Studio, Enterprise MCP, API Platform).

  • Content Development: Create high-quality instructional materials (videos, e-learning, documentation, job aids) that explain Workato product concepts, features, and best practices through strong storytelling, learning flow, and user engagement.

  • Product Enablement: Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to ensure training aligns with customer lifecycle, GTM strategies, product capabilities and roadmap.

  • Scenario-Based Learning: Design practical labs and real-world scenarios (e.g., building and managing Genies, configuring skills, building data orchestration workflows) to drive practical understanding.

  • Assessment & Certification: Develop robust assessments, knowledge checks, and performance-based evaluation materials that measure learner proficiency.

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and SMEs as a trusted partner who can clarify technical requirements and ensure alignment with roadmap and customer needs

  • Continuous Improvement: Gather learner feedback and analytics to iterate and improve instructional content, as well as contribute to standards, best practices, and process improvements within the team.

  • Agentic Thought Leadership: Stay current with AI, automation, and agentic trends to ensure Workato’s training is innovative and market-leading.Workato Genie - Design time

RequirementsQualifications / Experience / Technical Skills
  • Instructional Design Expertise: Proven experience designing technical learning content for SaaS, automation, or AI products.

  • Technical Acumen: Ability to quickly learn and design learning content around complex technical concepts (AI agents, knowledge bases, APIs, data orchestration).

  • Content Creation: Skilled in authoring tools (Articulate, Captivate, Camtasia, Adobe CC, etc.) and multimedia production.

  • Collaboration: Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success teams.

  • Analytical Mindset: Design evaluation mechanisms to capature data and feedback to drive continuous improvement.

  • Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics
  • At least 6+ years of instructional design experience, including curriculum development, e-learning, and multimedia content creation.

  • Experience with low-code/no-code platforms, automation, or AI-driven products.

  • Familiarity with Workato or similar integration/automation tools.

  • Knowledge of adult learning theory and instructional best practices.

  • Experience creating digital media (e.g. simulations, animated video, graphics, etc.)

  • Experience developing training for multiple modalities (virtual, hands-on/experiential, instructor led, synchronous/asynchronous) for a variety of audiences

Top Skills

Adobe Cc
Articulate
Camtasia
Captivate
SaaS
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The Company
HQ: Mountain View, CA
650 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

The leader in enterprise automation, Workato helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising security and governance. Built for Business and IT users, Workato is trusted by over 7,000 of the world's top brands like Gitlab, Toast, Broadcom, Intuit, Autodesk, and HubSpot. Leaders use Workato to automate key processes like Order to Cash, Speed to Lead, HR Onboarding and Offboarding and more.

Why Work With Us

Here at Workato, we are a team moved by innovation — a passion to create the best possible way and the drive to continue to make it better. We also believe in the power of our team, knowing that we only succeed if we all succeed together. Our team uses seven operating principles to help us make better decisions, work as a team, and have fun.

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