A global team of teams.

Building and retaining great teams has always been core to our mission. Human-centered design is not only how we build great digital experiences, but how we’ve built our business.

WillowTree At a Glance

2008
Founded at the dawn of mobile
4,000+
digital experts
Join the team
18
global studios
Our locations
700+
projects successfully delivered
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A Trusted, Long-Term Partner

10 years
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Multidisciplinary Delivery

Staffing Purpose-Built ‘Tiger Teams’

When the stakes are high, WillowTree is the partner that delivers. Our teams succeed in the face of immovable deadlines and mission-critical challenges, whether streaming the Super Bowl with FOX Sports, building a digital-first bank with Synchrony Financial, or redesigning pizza ordering with Domino’s.

A single discipline can’t solve complex challenges. Launching new digital products, harnessing the latest in generative AI, and building customer loyalty all require seamlessly combining expertise from multiple disciplines: strategy, design, engineering, marketing, and artificial intelligence.

It’s not enough to talk about the latest tech. A true partner understands where in the customer journey to deploy it, how to design for it, and how to connect it to the larger enterprise. Other firms have bolted on these capabilities — as digital natives, we’ve built them into our teams from Day One.

We needed a partner who could dream up new ideas, have best-in-class expertise, and deliver a fail-proof experience. WillowTree was the only choice.

— CMO, PepsiCo

The relationship with WT has been a beautiful marriage between head and heart.

— CEO, Reconstruction
From ideas to outcomes

Accelerating Time to Value.

When it comes to building software, quality and speed matter. Because let's face it — software can't impact the bottom line if it's not in customers' hands.

WillowTree's small, elite teams ship products faster, period. We minimize the time from ideas to outcomes — without sacrificing quality. And we do it in a way that puts partnership first.

Speed is quantifiable, and as such, we measure the productivity and delivery of our teams across every partner and every project.

It's a big part of what makes us different. And we're proud of the results.

F500 Global Asset Management Company
300%

more work delivered per developer, compared to a Global Systems Integrator.

Leader in Travel and Hospitality
6.8x

the story points delivered per developer, compared to an in-house team.

Global Payments Network
4x

the number of annual releases, compared to an in-house team.

Top 10 Bank
20x

faster deployment of first lines of code from new hires, compared to in-house new hires.

There were 3 people each on iOS and Android, but it felt like there were 2x as many people based on their deliverables.

— Product Owner, Leading North American Bank

Extremely impressive that we were able to get so many value-add features out the door on time. It’s clear we made the right choice in partners.

— CEO, CEATI International
Always-on Delivery

Sourcing Talent from Around the World.

Our origins start in college towns — great places to live that attract great people. Put simply, high-impact tech work doesn’t just happen in high rent cities. To this day, we remain proudly headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

As we built a global footprint — to tap unique sources of talent, to share efficiencies with our clients — we did so with one objective: to prove hybrid teams of onshore, nearshore, and offshore experts can deliver the agility, quality, and ROI associated with WillowTree since our founding in 2008. We’ve done just that, by approaching global delivery differently. A few highlights of our global model:

  • Optimize direct client collaboration by staffing, at a minimum, 30% of the team in-timezone (versus 10% from competitors)
  • Prevent communication breakdowns within teams via a 50% workday overlap, globally, with shared “Workday Windows”
  • Create stability in delivery with a culture that drives <10% attrition globally

You are the closest extension of our team that I’ve ever worked with.

— EVP Technology, Sun Outdoors

I have total trust in you. You’re my phone-a-friend.

— SVP, Global Payments Network
Hear more from our firm’s leaders about the WillowTree culture.

Our clients are consistently recognized as industry leaders.

Multiple wins including FOX
Sports, Nat Geo and Vocable.
Mobile Award of Excellence for
Alliant, Regal & Care Credit.
Best UX design for PepsiCo's
SodaStream Connect.
Top ranked apps across multiple categories in the Apple App Store.

Our employees have built an award-winning culture.

2021 Best Place
to Work.
Deloitte Technology
Fast 500.
2020 Inc. Best
Workplaces.
Great Place To Work
Certified 2022.

And we continue to help our clients build even stronger teams.

" There is no question that we have learned tremendously from the entire WillowTree team. It has been a true pleasure to be part of such a fantastically open and collaborative partnership. "
Fredrik Ekelund – vp product development

Partner certifications.

Apple company logo
Adobe logo

Executive Leadership.

Alex Carvalhal
Business Unit, Chief Financial Officer
Tobias Dengel
President
Adrian Guevara
Chief Information Security Officer
Lauren Klak
Chief Strategy Officer
Mike Moore
Chief Commercial Officer
Kelli Palmer
Chief Employee Experience Officer
Jamie Timm
Chief Delivery Officer

Service Line Leadership.

Sami Bin
General Manager of LATAM Operations
Derek Brameyer
Chief Product Engineering Officer
Alex Carr
Chief Design Officer
Gagan Tandon (GT)
Chief Data & AI Officer
Chris Westall
Chief Marketing Services Officer
Kylie Whitman
Chief Product Delivery Officer

Commercial Leadership.

Jarrod Cady
Chief Marketing Officer
Will Mayo
Chief Revenue Officer
Blake Sirach
Chief Product Officer
Alex Shafran
SVP Solutions Architecture

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