Embed inside portfolio companies to audit their workflows across every department and identify automation opportunities
Translate messy, manual processes into clean, reliable automated systems — using AI, no-code, custom code, or whatever actually works
Interview stakeholders, map processes, and diagnose root causes before writing a line of code
Build and deploy automation across operations, sales, customer support, reporting, and internal tooling
Own the full delivery cycle: scoping, building, shipping, measuring, and iterating
Work directly with company leadership to prioritize what gets built and communicate ROI clearly
Operate across multiple portfolio companies over time, building a repeatable playbook for what works

Proven experience automating real business workflows — not just experiments, but things that shipped and stuck
Fluency across automation tooling: you know when to use Make, Zapier, n8n, custom code, or an AI agent — and you pick the right one
Strong technical foundation — you can build production-quality solutions, not just prototypes
Exceptional problem-framing skills: you ask the right questions before jumping to solutions
High comfort with ambiguity — you thrive when the brief is "this is costing us time but we don't know why"
Strong communicator — you can explain what you built, why it works, and what it's worth to non-technical leadership
Self-starter who moves fast and leaves systems better than you found them

AI Automation Engineer

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