5 Minutes with a Teamwork Expert: Bo Zavorotniy

Bo Zavorotniy​e

Integrations Director

In the latest edition of our Five Minutes With… blog series, we get to know Bo Zavorotniy, Integrations Director at Teamwork Commerce.  

From wakeboarding to wine tasting, Bo’s eagerness to stay active extends way beyond leisure – regularly getting involved in Teamwork’s party planning on top of the day-to-day demands of an Integrations Director. Here, Bo reveals (almost) everything…

• What is your role at Teamwork Commerce?

Officially, I currently oversee our development services department as Director of Integrations, ensuring that systems and technologies can all communicate seamlessly. However, unofficially, I can be many things – including mascot and party planner!

• Explain your career path. What inspired you to join the retail tech industry?

To be honest, I never specifically planned to join the retail tech industry. It just kind of happened, and I liked it. Initially, I joined the IT industry as a Quality Assurance Analyst. I then slowly moved to other positions within the company which helped me learn different perspectives from different teams and departments of the business we’re in. In every position I’ve been in within the company, I was able to obtain a skill or two that helped me get to where I am today – and I don’t plan to stop this trend any time soon.

• What is your favorite thing about working in the retail industry?

I love the diversity of knowledge you’re able to obtain. The thing about the retail tech industry is that you’re not just trying to win new clients and flow through traditional client-vendor relationships. You’re trying to build a technological partnership where you must always dig deep to find out what is really needed, acting as an extension of your client.

You’re able to see, feel and be a part of not only the business you are in, but also other businesses, teams and technologies that you interact with on a daily basis. I think it’s great! It gives you an opportunity to broaden your horizons.

• What is the best career advice you have ever received?

That’s very simple: Don’t half-ass it. It is the best advice I’ve ever received and probably the best advice I can give to anyone else.

• What is your favorite thing about working at Teamwork Commerce?

I’d have to say people, company values and culture. I don’t have such a broad experience with working in other big IT companies, but here at Teamwork it’s very easy to have a feeling that you’re being heard. No one hesitates to express ideas and create something.

• Who are your key role models/inspirations?

I try to not idolize anyone, so I don’t really have an answer for my key role models, but I’m always fascinated and inspired by people or things that attempt to revolutionize the world for the better.

Rapid Fire Round…

What is your favorite…

• Book: I wouldn’t call myself a big book reader, but for this one I’d say it’s

Shantaram and The Little Prince.

• Movie: Troy, Miss Sloane, The Devil Wears Prada… the list goes on and on.

• Album: I can’t really single out something specific, as my music choices are

often mood driven. One day it’s AC/DC, Imagine Dragons, Okean Elzy, and

another it’s Ludovico Einaudi, and Estas Tonne.

Most people don’t know that I…

I think a mystery should remain a mystery…

In my spare time, I…

Honestly, I have a whole plethora of things I enjoy doing in my spare time. So I’ll just try to generalize my answer – I like anything active. Escape rooms, boating, MMA, airsoft, wakeboarding, wakesurfing, wine tasting, hiking, any sport, you name it.