Senior AI Automation Engineer, Later
CA$130-180k
Influencer marketing and social media management
Be an early applicant
Influencer marketing and social media management
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$130-180k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help the world's top brands create high-performing social content and collaborate with creators to reach new audiences, drive engagement, and generate predictable ROI.
Role
Who you are
- A track record of building and shipping automations, internal tools, or AI-powered workflows that delivered measurable business impact
- Strong fluency with modern AI tooling (LLMs, agents, RAG, prompt design) and comfort wiring together APIs, scripts, and no-code/low-code platforms
- A business-first mindset: you start with the problem and the user, not the technology, and can sharpen a non-technical partner's problem definition through the right questions
- Resourcefulness and a bias to action: you ship a working v1 in days, not months, and iterate from there
- An instinct for scale, knowing when something is good enough as a one-off versus when it needs to be built to serve the whole org
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical audiences and coach others to build their own solutions
- Experience in an internal-tools, RevOps, BizOps, or 'applied AI' function is a plus
- A background in supporting or training non-technical builders (citizen developers, ops teams running their own tooling) is a bonus
- Comfort with data: pulling it, cleaning it, and reasoning about it
- Driven by Impact: You deliver results that matter—prioritizing high-value work, meeting deadlines, and adapting quickly while keeping outcomes clear
- Strategic & Customer-Centric: You anticipate risks and opportunities, connect decisions to long-term growth, and build trust through proactive insights
- Curious & Growth-Oriented: You seek knowledge, ask sharp questions, and apply learnings fast—challenging the status quo with a mindset of improvement
- Collaborative & Resilient: You thrive in change by staying resourceful, solution-focused, and positive—removing roadblocks, sharing insights, and keeping morale high
- Accountable & Honest: You own your work, hold yourself and others to a high bar, and use transparent feedback to drive growth
- Emotionally Intelligent: You build trust through empathy and collaboration, foster inclusion, and inspire others with grit, optimism, and integrity
What the job involves
- We're hiring an AI Automation Engineer to embed across teams at Later, Operations, Finance, Marketing, Customer Success, and beyond, and replace manual, repetitive work with durable AI-powered tooling
- This role sits at the intersection of engineer, internal consultant, and coach: you'll build the automations that move the needle today and level up non-technical colleagues to build the next wave themselves
- This is a high-leverage role for someone who gets energy from solving real business problems, ships pragmatic v1s in days rather than months, and knows when a scrappy prototype needs to be hardened into something the whole org can rely on
- You'll work across Later's lines of business (Later Influence, Later Social, and Mavely), with regular exposure to senior leadership and broad visibility into how the company actually runs
- Partnership & Discovery:
- Embed with non-technical stakeholders across Operations, Finance, Marketing, Customer Success, and other functions to understand their workflows in depth
- Surface the highest-impact automation opportunities and translate fuzzy, ambiguous problems into clear technical solutions
- Leave every stakeholder conversation with a sharper problem definition than you walked in with
- Building & Shipping:
- Build automations and internal tools using AI-native platforms, scripting, APIs, and whatever else gets the job done, pragmatism over purity
- Ship working v1s quickly so stakeholders can validate value before investment scales
- Wire together LLMs, agents, RAG patterns, and prompt design with existing systems to deliver real workflow outcomes
- Scaling & Reliability:
- Take working prototypes and harden them with the reliability, observability, error handling, and reusability needed for production use
- Define when a one-off solution is good enough as-is versus when it needs to be promoted into something the whole org can rely on
- Build the monitoring and documentation that lets automations run unattended and recover gracefully when they don't
- Enablement & Coaching:
- Coach and advise non-technical colleagues who are building their own automations: review their work, unblock them, and level up their skills over time
- Run lightweight enablement (working sessions, office hours, shared documentation) that grows the citizen-developer community at Later
- Communicate technical tradeoffs clearly to non-technical audiences and teach others to fish
- Platform Thinking:
- Identify patterns across teams and build shared components, templates, and frameworks that compound the org's automation leverage over time
- Create reusable building blocks (prompt libraries, integration patterns, automation templates) that turn individual wins into org-wide capability
- Partner with Engineering and IT on the platform decisions that make this leverage durable
- What success looks like:
- Within your first 6-12 months, success in this role will look like:
- A portfolio of automations in production with documented business impact (hours saved, error rates reduced, cycle times shortened) across at least three different teams
- A measurable lift in the number of non-technical colleagues confidently building their own automations, supported by templates, documentation, and coaching you've put in place
- A reusable library of components, patterns, and templates that other builders, technical and non-technical, can pick up and apply
- Recognition as the go-to partner across Operations, Finance, Marketing, and Customer Success for 'can this be automated?' and 'is this worth automating?' questions
- A clear point of view on Later's automation roadmap: what the next high-leverage opportunities are, and where the platform investments need to land
Our take
Platforms like Instagram, Pinterest, and TikTok have become indispensable for businesses of all sizes, shaping their marketing strategies and driving success. Later specializes in assisting customers in navigating these channels. Offering a visually oriented suite of tools, the marketing platform enables marketing managers to schedule, analyze, and track sales from their content effectively.
Focusing on small businesses, Later is doubling down on its strategy, aiming to provide additional products tailored for marketers at these enterprises while expanding its geographic reach. This expansion of product capabilities not only caters to the evolving needs of small businesses but also helps Later mitigate platform risk from social media companies mimicking its services. Partnerships with platforms like TikTok and Instagram, featuring post scheduling, analytics, and conversation tools, showcase Later's commitment to innovation and staying ahead in the competitive landscape.
Now, the company is entering an exciting new chapter with updates designed to help marketers and creators stay ahead of what's next in social. The platform now offers enhanced analytics, improved collaboration tools, expanded support for platforms like Threads and Snapchat, and smarter insights through innovations such as Future Trends. These developments show Later's commitment to making social media management more intuitive, data-driven, and impactful so brands and creators can build stronger connections and lead the next era in social storytelling.
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Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2015
$1.2m
SEED
Dec 2014
$1.3m
SEED
Total funding: $3.8m
Company benefits
- Learning & development opportunities
- Market competitive compensation
- Hybrid work environment
- Flexible paid time off
- Competitive healthcare benefits
Company HQ
Government Center, Boston, MA
Leadership
Scott Sutton
(CEO)Scott joined lAter in 2023 as COO, becoming CEO in 2024. Previously, he spent 4 years at ZoomInfo, joining as VP of Revenue Operations before becoming Senior VP of Operations and then CBO.
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