AI Operations Automation Engineer

Northbeam

8d•$180,000 - $220,000•Remote

About The Position

You’ll act as the automation layer across the company, uncovering inefficiencies, building AI-powered workflows and agents, and turning scrappy experiments into scalable systems. This role blends builder, hacker, and strategist: part internal consultant, part product-minded engineer, part creative problem solver. If you love turning messy, manual processes into elegant automations and care deeply about business impact, this role is for you.

Requirements

Strong fluency with no-code / low-code automation tools (n8n, Gumloop, Zapier, Make, Airtable, Notion, etc.)
Comfort working with APIs, JSON, webhooks, and basic scripting in Python or JavaScript
A product and business mindset. You optimize for outcomes, not novelty
A true builder personality: scrappy, resourceful, curious, and persistent
Ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear, automated workflows
Excellent communication and documentation skills

Nice To Haves

Experience in marketing tech, SaaS, or growth-focused environments
Exposure to AI agent frameworks or multi-step agent workflows
A portfolio of automation or AI projects you can share (personal, freelance, or internal tools all count)

Responsibilities

Discover High-Leverage Opportunities
Shadow teams across marketing, sales, product, finance, and ops to understand workflows end-to-end
Run automation and AI audits to identify repetitive, high-friction processes
Translate vague problems (“this takes too long”) into clear automation opportunities
Prototype & Build
Design and build no-code / low-code workflows using tools like n8n, Gumloop, Zapier, Make, Airtable, Notion, Langflow, Relevance AI, and similar platforms
Integrate internal and external systems via APIs, webhooks, JSON, and light scripting
Leverage Northbeam data and APIs to power intelligent workflows and agents
Deploy, Scale & Maintain
Move successful experiments into production-ready systems
Monitor performance, reliability, and edge cases
Document workflows clearly so others can understand, extend, and maintain them
Drive Growth with AI
Build AI-driven workflows for: Lead generation and enrichment, Campaign and creative research, Competitive intelligence, Sales and marketing enablement
Partner with Growth, Marketing, and Sales to unlock new leverage with automation
Experiment Creatively
Push boundaries and explore new AI agent patterns
Build scrappy internal tools that give Northbeam an unfair advantage
Stay on top of emerging AI, automation, and agent frameworks and apply them pragmatically