Rebuilding a talent marketplace's resource center, with zero in-house engineers and 3,000+ resources added

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5+ years

Ongoing partnership

1000+

Pages launched

Industry

Recruitment & staffing

Country

United States

Company size

Enterprise

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Intro
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Flow Ninja has been an invaluable partner in designing and developing the resource center so that it’s user-friendly and responsive to our team’s needs. Thanks to their expertise and guidance, we’re able to create and modify pages quickly, test new features, and continually improve the performance of our content.

Robert McCauley
Sr. Dir, Content Marketing at Upwork

Intro

Flow Ninja migrated and rebuilt Upwork’s resource center in Webflow, removing engineering bottlenecks and giving the marketing team full CMS autonomy to publish 3,000+ resources at scale. Upwork, a San Francisco-based work marketplace connecting businesses with independent professionals, was named to TIME’s 2022 list of 100 Most Influential Companies and reported $4.14B in gross services volume in 2023.

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What we did

Migration
moved Upwork's resource center onto Webflow, a platform built for enterprise marketing teams, without pulling in any of Upwork's in-house resources.
Design and development
redesigned and rebuilt the resource center so it's user-friendly and lets the team create and modify pages quickly.
Custom solutions
built custom functionality beyond the resource center and supported fast testing of new features.
Ongoing WebOps
on-demand Webflow expertise for other projects, including a range of marketing campaigns.

Challenge

Every change went through engineering

Upwork's marketing team depended on the in-house engineering team for even minor changes.That dependency slowed the content upload pipeline down.

Engineering had bigger priorities

The internal team was focused on other pressing work and couldn't dedicate the resources the resource center needed.

A resource center that couldn't keep up

The bottleneck kept the resource center from becoming the dynamic, responsive platform it was meant to be. Upwork needed a partner to streamline content management and uploads, bringing both speed and specialized expertise.

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Solutions

Flow Ninja replaced Upwork’s engineering-dependent setup with Webflow, a platform built for marketing teams at enterprise scale, migrating and rebuilding the resource center end to end so Upwork didn’t need to commit its own engineering resources.

Flow Ninja has been an invaluable partner in designing and developing the resource center so that it’s user-friendly and responsive to our team’s needs. Thanks to their expertise and guidance, we’re able to create and modify pages quickly, test new features, and continually improve the performance of our content.

Robert McCauley - Upwork
Sr. Dir, Content Marketing at Upwork

The results

With the resource center live on Webflow, Upwork’s marketing team added 3,000+ resources for clients and talent, with a streamlined process to publish and test new features quickly. The partnership has since grown beyond the resource center, with Flow Ninja building custom solutions and marketing campaigns for Upwork.

3,000+
resources published
1,000+
pages launched
5+
years of partnership

The team behind this project

Marko Vukic
Marko Vukic
Webflow Team Lead
Natasa Radovanovic
Natasa Radovanovic
Client Delivery Manager
Marija Nikolic
Marija Nikolic
Webflow Expert
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