Senior AI Automation Engineer

The posting, as Later wrote it

Later is the world’s most intelligent influencer marketing company, built to give brands the confidence to create unforgettable campaigns. By combining real creator relationships, trusted intelligence, and expert guidance, Later removes fear and guesswork from one of marketing’s most visible investments.

Built on a native, AI-powered platform and more than a decade of proprietary data—including billions of social interactions, impressions, and $2.4B+ in verified influencer-driven purchases—Later helps teams understand what will work before they launch.

By combining trusted insight with expert guidance, Later removes guesswork from influencer marketing, enabling brands to choose the right creators, execute fully managed campaigns, and drive meaningful growth across awareness, engagement, and revenue. Trusted by leading enterprise brands including Nike, Wayfair, Unilever, and Southwest Airlines, Later bridges creativity and performance so campaigns don’t just look good—they deliver results. Learn more at later.com .

About this position

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 Later Creator), with regular exposure to senior leadership and broad visibility into how the company actually runs.

What you'll be doing

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 ca

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scope. We evaluate compensation bi-annually, including performance and market-related factors.

Our salaries are benchmarked against market Total Cash Compensation for the geographic location of our job posting. Compensation for some roles is structured as On Target Earnings (OTE = base + commission/variable) while for others it is structured as Salary only. The salary range listed for this role reflects the zones that applies to the location of this posting.

To comply with local legislation and ensure transparency, we share salary ranges on all job postings. Skills, experience and other factors help determine the final salary we offer which may vary from the original range posted.

Additionally, all permanent team members are eligible to participate in various benefits plans as part of their overall compensation package.

For candidates located in the US: $125,000-190,000 USD
For candidates located in the Canada: $110,000-160,000 CAD
Where we work:

We have offices in Boston, MA; Vancouver, BC; and Vancouver, WA. For select positions, we are open to hiring fully remote candidates. We post our positions in the location(s) where we are open to having the successful candidate be located.

Diversity, inclusion, and accessibility

At Later, we are committed to fostering a culture rooted in an inclusion-first mindset at every level of the company, embracing the importance of hiring and building teams for culture add rather than culture fit . We openly build and maintain unbiased hiring, pay, and promotion practices to create a foundation for an equitable workplace, paving the way for systemic change.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer . All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, or age. Please let us know if you require any accommodations or support during the recruitment process.