Stefanie Gordish

Enterprise AI Marketing & Comms Leader

San Francisco Bay Area

About

My career has focused on joining enterprise technology companies at inflection points - when markets are shifting, narratives need sharpening, and organizations need greater alignment around where they're going. Over the last 20+ years, I've partnered with leadership teams across high-growth and public software companies to strengthen market position, modernize market perception, and connect strategy to execution to accelerate growth. I started my career helping companies define their brand and corporate communications. Over time, my work evolved into helping leadership teams shape category narratives, align brand and corporate communications with go-to-market strategy, and integrate marketing around a shared direction. I've helped companies: • Reposition for major market and technology shifts • Build category-defining narratives and modernize market perception • Integrate narrative, brand, communications, and go-to-market execution • Strengthen engagement with customers, analysts, employees, investors, and media • Transform strategic events into engines for brand, community, and revenue growth

Experience

  • Head of Corporate Marketing & Communications (Freelance) at Workato
    Oct 2025 - Present · 10 mos

    Helped lead Workato's evolution from an integration platform to enterprise AI orchestration platform, aligning brand, communications, and integrated marketing to strengthen market leadership. 🚀 Brand & AI Transformation - Helped evolve Workato's brand strategy and identity for the AI era. 📣 Corporate Communications - Led communications strategy spanning executive visibility, media relations, thought leadership, social media, and corporate storytelling to build credibility and market influence. 📖 Corporate Narrative - Developed narrative and thought leadership to establish Workato as a leader in enterprise AI. 🔥 Community & Strategic Events – Reimagined flagship customer events and executive communities as strategic platforms for customer advocacy, engagement, and growth.

  • Kinaxis (2 yrs 4 mos)
    • Executive Vice President, Marketing & Communications
      Jan 2024 - Jul 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Asked by CEO to lead marketing through a leadership transition, expanding responsibility to product marketing, demand generation, events, and field marketing. Key areas of focus included: • Led the strategic repositioning of the company around AI-powered supply chain orchestration, modernizing the corporate narrative, messaging, and market positioning. • Elevated corporate communications and executive thought leadership to reinforce the company's strategic repositioning with customers, analysts, media, employees, and investors. • Led crisis communications response around major corporate, product, and investor relations issues. • Created integrated go-to-market approach that generated market momentum through coordinated product launches, thought leadership, media coverage, influencer engagement, and social activation. • Reimagined customer and field events into community-driven experiences that increased executive engagement, customer advocacy, and pipeline contribution.

    • Senior Vice President, Corporate Marketing & Communications
      Apr 2023 - Dec 2023 · 9 mos

      Hired to modernize the Kinaxis brand and strengthen market perception during a period of strategic transformation. • Led the company's corporate rebrand, including visual identity, brand system, and digital experience. • Drove communications strategy to engage tier 1 media, secure speaking opportunities, and win key awards to build awareness for Kinaixs in the U.S. • Refreshed the corporate narrative to expand market perception toward future vision. • Transformed the annual customer conference into a flagship industry event that significantly increased executive participation and commercial impact.

  • Head of Corporate Marketing & Communications at Benchling
    Feb 2022 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr

    Hired to elevate the company's market profile and prepare the organization for its next phase of growth. • Increased company share of voice through strategic communications, thought leadership, and high-impact media engagement with top-tier business media. • Led internal communications, building unique programs to reach each employee level around the company's vision, strategy, and growth ambitions.

  • Vice President, Corporate Marketing & Communications at Coupa Software
    Apr 2018 - Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    Built and led first corporate marketing organization spanning brand, communications, executive positioning, customer advocacy, and thought leadership that elevated Coupa's market leadership during rapid growth. • Helped establish Business Spend Management as differentiated category through industry thought leadership, CEO positioning, and data-driven storytelling. • Led corporate communications, securing top-tier media, executive speaking opportunities, and industry recognition. • Conceived and launched strategic brand campaign with MLB, Premier League, and Formula 1, increasing brand awareness 16x.

  • Vice President, Marketing at Sapphire Ventures
    Sep 2017 - Mar 2018 · 7 mos

    Partnered with the firm's leadership team to modernize Sapphire Ventures' brand, managing partner visibility, and market presence during a period of growth and portfolio expansion.