AI Ops & Automation Engineer

About Us Foreplay is a fast-growing SaaS company helping 10,000+ brands and agencies (like AG1, Dr. Squatch, and Rhode Beauty) unlock creative inspiration and analytics. We’re bootstrapped, profitable, and scaling fast.

Now, we’re looking for our first AI Ops & Automation Engineer a hybrid of builder, hacker, and strategist to help us discover and deploy high-leverage AI and automation opportunities across the business.

The Mission Your role is to make our company faster, leaner, and smarter with AI. You’ll uncover inefficiencies, build no-code/low-code agents, and deploy workflows that save time and unlock growth.

Think of this as being the “automation layer” across every team: marketing, sales, product, and ops. What You’ll Do Discover opportunities: Shadow teams, run audits, and spot repetitive processes that AI can automate.

Prototype & build: Use platforms like n8n, Gumloop, Zapier, Langflow, Relevance AI, and APIs (including our own Foreplay API) to build workflows and agents. Deploy & scale: Move experiments into production, monitor them, and document workflows for others.

Drive growth: Build AI-driven workflows for lead gen, campaign scaling, competitor insights, and creative research. Experiment creatively: Push boundaries. Build scrappy internal tools that give us unfair advantages.

What We’re Looking For Strong fluency with no-code/low-code automation tools (n8n, Gumloop, Zapier, Make, Airtable, Notion, etc.). Comfort with APIs, JSON, webhooks, and basic scripting (Python or JavaScript).

A product mindset: you care about business impact, not just technical novelty. A builder personality: scrappy, resourceful, and curious. You tinker until it works. Ability to translate vague problems into clear, automated workflows.

Excellent communication and documentation skills. Bonus Points Experience in marketing tech, SaaS, or growth-focused roles. Exposure to AI agent frameworks. Portfolio of past automation/AI projects you can share.

Why Join Us Direct impact: your work will shape how the entire company runs. Fast-moving, ambitious environment—we value speed and creativity. Bootstrapped and profitable: stability without bureaucracy. Be at the forefront of AI + growth + creative strategy.

How We’ll Measure Success Within 60 days: 5–10 live automations saving measurable hours for the team. Within 3 months: Workflows tied directly to revenue or growth outcomes.

Within 12 months: You’ve built the automation layer that makes Foreplay one of the leanest, fastest companies in our space.