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You do the analysis and you build the thing.\nThat combination used to be unrealistic to ask for. It isn't anymore. AI coding tools have collapsed the distance between understanding a process deeply and being able to automate it yourself, and we're hiring for exactly that shift. If you're an analyst who has spent the last year or two building things you couldn't have built alone before - because Claude, Cursor, or Codex closed the gap - this role is aimed squarely at you.\nHere's where we are. We've already invested in automated process discovery tooling, so the raw picture of how work flows through this company is being captured for you. We also have a substantial portfolio of RPA automations in production that you'll help inherit. Some are excellent, some are brittle, some probably shouldn't exist.\nYour job spans both ends. Discovery software shows whatpeople do; it can't tell you whyor which exception matters. That takes someone who will sit with users and ask the third and fourth question. Then you take what you learned and ship the automation yourself.\nWhat You'll Do:\nInterview and observe the humans doing the work.Run discovery sessions, workshops, and side-by-side walkthroughs. Dig past the first answer and surface the exceptions, workarounds, and edge cases that tooling alone won't reveal\nBuild the automations.Workflow orchestration, RPA, scripts, integrations, AI-assisted steps - you're expected to deliver working automation, not just specify it. You'll pull in engineering for the genuinely hard problems, not the routine ones\nTurn process discovery output into a prioritized, quantified backlog: what it costs today, what it costs to fix, what we get back\nHelp own our existing RPA portfolio:understand what each automation does and for whom, fix what's brittle, document what's undocumented, and retire what no longer earns its keep\nWrite the requirements: user stories, acceptance criteria, exception paths, and the failure modes everyone forgets until go-live\nOwn reliability for what you ship: monitoring, error handling, and runbooks\nManage the change: bring affected teams along, train them, and make sure the new process actually sticks\nMeasure what shipped against what you promised, and report it honestly\nWhat We're Looking For:\nYou build, not just document.Point to automations, tools, scripts, or workflows that exist and are used. We care more about what you've shipped than what you've specified\nSerious hands-on AI tooling experience.You work regularly in tools like Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex - using them to write and debug real working code, not to draft emails. You know how to decompose a problem for a model, when to trust the output, and where it will confidently hand you garbage\nReal analyst chops.You can run a discovery session, elicit requirements from someone who's never written one, and turn a vague complaint into a defined problem with a number attached. You ask the follow-up question\nTechnical fluency.REST APIs, JSON, webhooks, SQL, and scripting in Python or JavaScript. You should be able to read an API doc, authenticate against it, and get data moving without help\nYou automate your own work.You've built the script, the macro, the workflow that saved you three hours a week - and then you built four more\nGenuine curiosity about how work gets done.The best insight in this job usually comes from watching someone's screen for twenty minutes, not from reading a process doc\nWillingness to maintain, not just build.A meaningful share of year one is understanding and improving someone else's work. If that sounds like a chore rather than a puzzle, this isn't the right fit\nSystems thinking about people.You can talk to a controller about their month-end close, understand the edge cases they're worried about, and get buy-in before you change how their job works\nYou know the difference between a process that should be automated and one that should be eliminated or renegotiated first\nBonus Points:\nBusiness process modeling- BPMN or equivalent, at a level of detail people actually read\nHands-on with workflow automation or iPaaS platforms\nRPA experience, especially inheriting or auditing an existing bot portfolio. n8n experience.\nBuilt something real with LLM APIs: structured extraction, document processing, tool-using agents, evaluation harnesses\nFamiliarity with task or process mining toolsand translating their output into action\nFormal continuous improvement background: Lean, Six Sigma, value stream mapping\nBrowser and UI automation: Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium\nData work beyond SQL: dbt, warehouse modeling, BI tooling\nWhy This Role?\nYou own the whole loop: find the problem, size it, design the fix, build it, prove it worked\nWe've already invested in discovery tooling, so you spend your time on solutions instead of hunting for problems\nReal scope from day one: a live portfolio to help own plus a mandate to build new\nBudget and mandate for the tools you need, including AI tooling. We want you using it aggressively\nDirect line to leadership and to the people whose work you're improving\nBenfits & Perks:\nHealth / Dental / Vision Insurance Plans\n401K Plan with Employer Match\nLife Insurance Plan (100% employer paid)\nPTO Plan (3 weeks PTO for new employees, grows with tenure)\n6 paid holidays\nPaid Parental Leave\nFree professional coaching through Boon Health\nBaby-feeding support and on-site Lounge through Pumpspotting\nComprehensive training program\nCommitment to defend employees who have signed predatory non-competes (Learn more here)\nOngoing, in-house professional development\nIn-office gym complete with strength and cardio equipment as well as Peloton bikes\nOn-site snack machine\nOn-site golf simulator\nAdditional Info:\nA cover letter is highly recommended, even if it's brief. Tell us why you are a fit!\nSigning a non-compete agreement is NOT a pre-requisite for employment. 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