AI Ops & Automation Engineer

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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.

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.

• Discover opportunities
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  Shadow teams, run audits, and spot repetitive processes that AI can automate.
• Prototype & build
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  Use platforms like n8n, Gumloop, Zapier, Langflow, Relevance AI
  , and APIs (including our own Foreplay API) to build workflows and agents.
• Deploy & scale
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  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
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  Push boundaries. Build scrappy internal tools that give us unfair advantages.

• Strong fluency with no-code/low-code automation tools (n8n, Gumloop, Zapier, Make, Airtable, Notion, etc.).
• 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.

• Experience in marketing tech, SaaS, or growth-focused roles.
• Exposure to AI agent frameworks.
• Portfolio of past automation/AI projects you can share.

• 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.

• 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.