Strategy & Operations Engineer at HappyRobot focusing on eliminating manual work through internal systems and automations. Engage in cross-functional collaboration to optimize operational workflows.
Responsibilities
Identify manual, repetitive, and error-prone operational workflows across the company.
Design and build internal tools, automations, and lightweight services to replace manual processes.
Integrate systems across finance, sales, procurement, legal, and customer support.
Write production-quality scripts, services, or automations (APIs, cron jobs, data pipelines, internal dashboards).
Own operational systems from design through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
Analyze operational data to prioritize high-leverage improvements and measure impact.
Reduce dependency on administrative headcount through automation and system design.
Improve go-to-market operations by building better tooling between sales, finance, and legal.
Support contract management and procurement through structured, automated workflows.
Ensure data accuracy, reliability, and observability across operational systems.
Execute ambiguous, high-impact operational projects with minimal guidance.
Requirements
Strong software engineering fundamentals and comfort shipping real systems.
Experience building automations or internal tools using Python, SQL, APIs, and/or scripting languages.
Ability to reason about systems, edge cases, failure modes, and long-term maintainability.
Strong business intuition—understanding how operational systems affect cost, speed, and scale.
Extreme ownership: you find problems, design solutions, and ship without being asked.
High agency, urgency, and comfort operating in ambiguity.
Clear written and verbal communication.
Benefits
Opportunity to work at a high-growth AI startup, backed by top investors.
Rapidly growing and backed by top investors including a16z, Y Combinator, and Base10.
Ownership & Autonomy - Take full ownership of projects and ship fast.
Work With the Best - Join a world-class team of engineers and builders.
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