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You will serve as a key driver of Tipalti's AI-led operational transformation across General & Administrative functions - Legal, People, and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) - working as a full-time embedded partner within their organizations.\nWhy join Tipalti?\nTipalti is the AI-powered platform for finance automation, elevating how finance teams operate in the global economy. We empower our customers to scale faster and smarter by removing the complexities of doing global business and accelerating their finance operations efficiency. Our platform provides a comprehensive suite of finance automation solutions designed for mid-market businesses across accounts payable, global payouts, procurement, employee expenses, corporate cards, supplier management, tax compliance, and treasury. Tipalti partners with leading financial institutions such as Citi, Wells Fargo, J.P. Morgan, and Visa, enabling over 5,000 global companies to efficiently and securely pay millions of suppliers and payees across 200+ countries and territories, in 120 currencies.\nAt Tipalti, we pride ourselves on our collaborative culture, the quality of our product and the capabilities of our people. Tipaltians are passionate about the work they do, and keen to get the job done. Tipalti offers competitive benefits, a flexible workplace, and an environment where diverse individuals can thrive and make an impact. Our culture ensures everyone checks their egos at the door and stands ready to reach for success together. \nFounded in Israel in 2010, Tipalti is a global business headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area (Foster City) with offices in Tel Aviv, Plano, Toronto, Vancouver, London, Amsterdam, Tbilisi and Medellin.\nIn this role, you will:\nUnderstand the customer and identify gaps - Find the pain points within Legal, People, and Finance; learn the constraints they can’t change, the workarounds they’ve created, and find the problem that actually costs them time.\nMap and solve end-to-end workflows - Follow work across functions and systems to understand where the handoff failures are and where AI can create leverage across boundaries.\n Build and ship the fix yourself, fast. Prototype and deploy using approved LLMs (Claude and other AI tools), agent frameworks, MCP-based tooling, automation platforms, APIs, data integrations, and code, where code is the right answer. Follow Tipalti’s security, privacy, legal, compliance, architecture, and change-management requirements, including required approvals before production deployment.\nKnow what we can build in-house - and be honest about what we can’t. Maintain a live, evidence-based view of what is buildable internally, both with code and without it, including what it takes to run and maintain. Your build-vs-buy guidance should address security, privacy, intellectual property, regulatory, data residency, vendor concentration, resilience, auditability, maintenance, and exit risks. It should still hold up six months after you give it.\n Advise the Divisional Teams on their respective tech stacks (what we keep, consolidate, and retire): Have a point of view on how the stack fits together - where the data lives, where the integration seams are, who owns the data and tool, and where an agent or automation can sit across tools instead of inside one. \nDesign for reliability, not for the demo. Think in failure modes: where the model is wrong, how you’d know, what evaluation looks like, where meaningful human oversight belongs, and how sensitive data is handled. Build in access controls, testing, bias and accuracy assessment, logging, audit trails, monitoring, escalation, rollback, incident response, and business continuity.\nThink of each solution as a product for internal customers. Define success, risk, control, and compliance metrics before you build. Track adoption, performance, control effectiveness, and incidents on a regular cadence. Iterate based on how people actually use it, not what you initially planned.\nAbout You\n You build things, hands-on. You’ve shipped AI or automation solutions that real people depend on - agents, workflow automations, integrations, internal tools. You’re comfortable in a terminal, reading API documentation, and writing and debugging your own scripts (Python, TypeScript, or similar). You’ve felt the difference between “demo’d once” and “actually used.”\n Fluent with Claude. You’ve built with Claude or an equivalent frontier model in earnest (agentic coding, sub-agents and skills, MCP, context and prompt design, and evaluating output quality). You can adapt quickly as approved tools change. You know what these systems are bad at, not only what they’re good at: non-determinism, context limits, cost and latency, and when retrieval, tooling, or a plain script beats a model call.\nThink in end-to-end workflows, not silos. You trace work across functions and systems. You notice handoffs, redundancy, and instances where different parts of the org solve the same problem twice. You see inefficiency as a systems problem, not a function problem.\nProactive and self-directed. You find problems before they're on your list. You're comfortable setting your own priorities and making the day-to-day call yourself. You keep moving in between syncs.\nComfortable at all levels of the org. You sit with frontline teams and actually understand their workflow. You sit with the CFO, CLRO, and CPO and speak credibly to strategy. You’ll sit with engineers and translate business problems into technical specs.\nTranslator and connector. You turn vague asks into working solutions. You spot where one function has solved a problem that another hasn't. You tell leaders \"not that, but here's what would actually help.\" You see patterns across domains and connect the dots.\nCurious about unfamiliar territory. You are genuinely interested in how these functions work, comfortable asking \"stupid questions\" to understand the actual workflow, and able to pick up domain language quickly.\nOur Mission\nOur mission is to elevate how finance teams operate in the global economy. We empower our customers to scale faster and smarter by removing the complexities of doing global business and accelerating their finance operations efficiency. We are the AI-powered platform that automates finance.\nTipalti is fueled by a commitment to our customers and a desire to build lasting connections. Our client portfolio includes high-velocity businesses such as Amazon Twitch, GoDaddy, Roku, WordPress.com, and ZipRecruiter. We work hard for our 99% customer retention rate which is built on trust, reliability and innovation. Tipalti means we handled it\" - a mission to which we are constantly committed.\nAccommodations\n Tipalti champions inclusive teams, in which every voice counts. We are committed to recruiting diverse candidates with varied personal experiences and abilities. We welcome applications from candidates belonging to historically underrepresented or disadvantaged groups, and maintain an equitable Talent Acquisition process that is free from discrimination.\nAs an equal opportunities employer, Tipalti complies with employment and human rights laws across the various jurisdictions in which we operate. Should you require reasonable adjustments or accommodations during the recruitment process, including access to alternate formats of materials, meeting spaces, or other accommodations that could better enable your full participation, please reach out to  for assistance.\nAI Use \n We may use artificial intelligence and automated systems (collectively \"AI\") to screen, assess, and select candidates during our recruitment process. This includes resume screening, skills assessment, and candidate matching. You have the right to request human review of any automated decision. For more information about how we collect and use personal data and information during recruitment, please refer to our Job Candidate Privacy Notice. For additional questions about our use of AI during our recruitment process, you can contact .\nPrivacy\n We are committed to protecting the privacy interests of job applicants and candidates. 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