Bringing AI in at Asana

Decide what AI drafts for CIO campaigns before channel windows close

Published Oct 28, 2026

You’re a forward deployed engineer working with Asana’s marketing team. The team is in the room.

The setting

makes cloud-based software for teams. Its helps people plan projects, assign and track tasks, set goals, and report on progress.

CIO campaign speed is pulling against the discipline required for technically credible claims.

LinkedIn and X need distinct language, while each variation must remain anchored to the approved message hierarchy.

Who you’d be doing this for

“I keep getting polished AI claims, then my architecture lead asks what they actually change.”

Walid Dabiri · Chief Information Officer · a character in this brief

A target enterprise buyer reviewing whether AI-enabled work management reduces tool sprawl and improves governed delivery.

What is at stake

CIO campaign briefs are missing channel windows as copy gets rebuilt from approved claims. You must decide whether AI drafts only channel language or also selects the evidence each claim needs.

Why it isn’t already fixed

Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.

  • channel-native expression vs message consistency
  • technical proof depth vs copy brevity
  • variant choice vs shared narrative control
  • pipeline timing vs brand stewardship

Why Asana

AI Teammates and the enterprise work-management narrative must show CIO buyers governed value, not generic automation.

Written with these in mind

forward deployed builderAI workflow designergo-to-market systems engineer

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Where the organization context comes fromThe postings this brief was written from, and the reporting read before it.

The organization context comes from public information. The situation and characters are written for the brief.

Job postings it was written from

Public descriptions of the work at Asana. They are listed as sources, not as openings. The lines under a posting are its own words, where it meets this brief.

  • Social Media Lead (opens in a new tab)
    • You'll set strategy, write briefs, and partner with our creative team.
    • We don't see social as a supporting channel; it's a direct lever for business impact.
  • Senior Product Marketing Manager, IT and AI Transformation (opens in a new tab)
    • Create technically credible content across the buyer journey, such as POVs, solution narratives, demos, executive briefings, and whitepapers.
    • These buyers are navigating tool consolidation, AI adoption, governance, and the shift to agentic workflows, and you'll turn deep knowledge of their world into technically credible messaging, content the field uses every day, and campaign themes that bring new logos into the pipeline.
  • Head of Web Strategy and Services (opens in a new tab)
    • The Asana Marketing team is responsible for fueling business growth and building a brand customers love, partnering across the business to create a holistic digital strategy that ensures our website looks, performs, and drives measurable results in telling Asana’s story to the world .
    • People leadership experience managing multi-disciplinary or technical teams, including web platform engineers, developers, and agency partners .
  • Senior Product Marketing Manager, Marketing & Operations Audiences (opens in a new tab)
    • Champion the voice of the customer by channeling market insights and buyer feedback directly into product roadmap and positioning decisions .
    • Working familiarity with the work management, marketing technology, or operations software ecosystem, paired with insight into how leaders evaluate AI for workflow coordination, governance, and business impact .
  • Sr. Manager, Web Strategy (opens in a new tab)
    • Build deep cross-functional alignment, influencing how teams in PMM, product, engineering, and design contribute to and evolve the digital experience—turning the web into a shared strategic asset.
    • We’re looking for a strategic, customer-journey-obsessed leader to take ownership of Asana's website as a driver of product understanding, customer acquisition, and trial conversion.

This is the setup. The work is inside.

Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.

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The same setting, from another role

Each is set around Asana’s Asana Work Management, written for a different role. They’re separate briefs, not the same scenario.

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In each of these, as in this one, the aim is to turn a complicated, unpredictable operation into something customers can count on to arrive on time.