AI Operations Automation Engineer
northbeam • Remote - USA
Posted: January 22, 2026
Job Description
About the Role
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.
Your Impact
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
What You Bring
- 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
Bonus Skills & Experience
- 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)
#LI-Remote
Additional Content
About the Role
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.
Your Impact
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
What You Bring
- 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
Bonus Skills & Experience
- 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)
#LI-Remote