
51 - 200 employees
Founded 2012
👥 HR Tech
🏪 Marketplace
🎯 Recruiter
💰 Series C on 2024-02
HR Tech • Marketplace • Recruitment
Workana is a leading platform in Latin America that connects businesses with remote talent across various disciplines. With over a decade in the market, Workana specializes in providing businesses with pre-selected and certified developers and freelancers for specific time periods or project-based tasks. The platform supports hiring in diverse fields such as IT & Programming, Design & Multimedia, Writing & Translation, and more, offering payment flexibility in local currencies or USD. Workana ensures satisfaction with protected payments and a satisfaction guarantee, aiming to grow businesses quickly and sustainably by leveraging the best remote talent available.
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🌐 Argentina, Colombia, +4 more countries – Remote
⏰ Full Time
🔴 Lead
👨💼 Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
👻 Ghost score 11%
🗣️🇪🇸 Spanish Required
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51 - 200 employees
Founded 2012
👥 HR Tech
🏪 Marketplace
🎯 Recruiter
💰 Series C on 2024-02
HR Tech • Marketplace • Recruitment
Workana is a leading platform in Latin America that connects businesses with remote talent across various disciplines. With over a decade in the market, Workana specializes in providing businesses with pre-selected and certified developers and freelancers for specific time periods or project-based tasks. The platform supports hiring in diverse fields such as IT & Programming, Design & Multimedia, Writing & Translation, and more, offering payment flexibility in local currencies or USD. Workana ensures satisfaction with protected payments and a satisfaction guarantee, aiming to grow businesses quickly and sustainably by leveraging the best remote talent available.
• Define the product and technology vision and strategy, and turn them into a roadmap built on a few high-impact bets • Build the machine that turns ideas into production: a team and a way of working that ship fast and with high quality, using AI to shorten every step from idea to deploy • Be the voice of users in every decision and ensure user insight appears in the product in weeks, not quarters • Decide what gets built, what doesn’t, and to what level of finish • Launch, measure and iterate by putting products in users’ hands early and adjusting quickly • Build a team that talented people want to join and grow in, and own the platform: architecture, quality, security and costs • Build Workana Intelligence: an intelligence layer understanding clients and talent, helping clients buy outcomes and helping talent find opportunities, validation and training • Establish the baseline and build a 12-month plan with milestones, product metrics and a team hiring plan
• 8+ years in product and/or technology, with at least 4 leading teams and developing leaders, without ever stepping away from the details • You've launched a new product from zero to one, not just optimized an existing one • Strong technical background: you can sit down with developers and discuss architecture, data and trade-offs as a peer, and the team trusts your judgment on how to build, not just what to build • You've taken AI to production, with real users • Experience in marketplaces, digital platforms or SaaS at scale, ideally in data-driven products (matching, recommendations, search) • Fluent Spanish and advanced English • Experience in the freelance or future-of-work space • Experience at a startup or scale-up in LATAM or the US • Portuguese: Brazil is one of our most important markets
• The chance to build the next version of Workana, on top of ten years of real work data, with real autonomy to bet big • Product and Development report to you: you define the roadmap, the architecture, who we hire and high-impact investment decisions • Direct access to the CEO and the leadership team • A lot of freedom in how you work, with a clear expectation of full commitment to Workana • Competitive compensation for the level of the role, plus remote work
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