Senior AI Strategy and Operations Analyst

Applovin; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Phone bill coverage

Mental health access

Flexible time off

Stock purchase plan

Retirement benefits with company match

Parental leave

Life and disability coverage

Family planning benefits

Team events

Job summary

Applovin is seeking an AI Strategy leader in Toronto to drive adoption of AI and automation across business teams. You will bridge operations, data, engineering, and AI to turn manual workflows into scalable, secure AI-enabled processes.

Responsibilities include defining adoption roadmaps, partnering with Finance/Legal/HR, and building governance, monitoring, and reusable AI capabilities to improve productivity and risk management.

Qualifications

• Strong experience delivering AI-driven processes in enterprise settings.
• Ability to translate ambiguous operational problems into practical technical solutions.
• Experience deploying AI, automation, or data solutions into real workflows.
• Familiarity with AI governance, data classification, security reviews, access controls.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute AI adoption roadmaps across business functions.
• Partner with Finance, Legal, HR and other teams to identify high-value AI opportunities.
• Build monitoring and alerting for AI-powered data pipelines, integrations, and automations.
• Establish documentation for dashboards, data sources, ownership, and calculation logic.
• Operate an internal AI skills and automation program including onboarding, approvals, governance reviews, and adoption tracking.
• Coordinate secure integrations between AI tools and enterprise systems; establish cloud, source-control, identity, and service-account infrastructure.
• Develop reusable automation patterns for data movement between Python workflows, APIs, databases, and internal systems.
• Translate operational processes into reusable AI capabilities: data reconciliation, query/script support, and reporting.

Skills

Python

SQL

LLM tools

AI workflows

Automation

APIs

Git/GitHub

Cloud platforms

Stakeholder communication

Data platforms

Security reviews

Governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, Business Analytics, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics

Tools

GitHub

GCP

AWS

Azure

Job description

• We are looking for someone to join our AI Strategy team to drive the adoption of AI and automation across business teams
• This role will sit at the intersection of business operations, data, engineering, and AI, helping teams turn manual workflows into scalable, secure, and measurable AI-enabled processes
• Success means enabling teams across the organization to use AI safely and with increasing independence, replacing manual processes with repeatable workflows, scaling high-impact use cases across functions, and delivering measurable improvements in productivity, quality, reliability, and operational risk
• Define and execute AI adoption roadmaps across business functions
• Partner with Finance, Legal, HR, and other teams to identify high-value opportunities for AI, automation, and workflow improvement
• Build monitoring and alerting for AI-powered data pipelines, integrations, and automations
• Establish clear documentation for dashboards, metrics, data sources, ownership, and calculation logic
• Operate an internal AI skills and automation program, including:
• User onboarding and enablement
• Contributor and skill-author approvals
• Security and governance reviews
• Adoption, usage, and quality tracking
• Build, launch and manage team-specific libraries of reusable AI skills, tools, and workflows
• Develop and support internal AI champions and power users across the organization
• Coordinate secure integrations between AI tools and enterprise systems, data platforms, APIs, spreadsheets, and third-party services
• Partner with IT, Security, Engineering, Data, and business teams to establish the required cloud, source-control, identity, permissions, and service-account infrastructure
• Develop reusable automation patterns for moving data between Python-based workflows, APIs, databases, spreadsheets, and internal systems
• Translate operational business processes into reusable AI capabilities, including:
• Multi-source data reconciliation
• Query and scripting assistance
• Data-import troubleshooting
• Integration diagnostics
• Audit and evidence collection
• User-access and permissions reviews
• Reporting and operational workflow automation
• Interview business users to assess AI maturity, identify high-value use cases, surface capability gaps, and develop internal champions
• Create practical data-classification and governance guidance for safe AI use
• Define and track success metrics across adoption, quality, time savings, reliability, operational efficiency, and risk reduction
• Build a repeatable onboarding framework and establish standards and reusable patterns that allow new teams to adopt AI safely and efficiently, and successful workflows to scale across teams rather than remaining isolated solutions

Benefits

• 100% company paid health benefits for employees & dependent
• Phone bill covered for business usage
• Access to mental health and wellness provider
• Flexible time off
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Retirement benefits with company matching
• Parental leave program
• Life and disability coverage
• Family forming & women’s reproductive health benefits
• Team-centric company events and more!

Experience independently owning or driving cross-functional technology, automation, data, or AI initiatives from problem definition through implementation and adoptionExperience integrating enterprise systems, data platforms, spreadsheets, APIs, and third-party servicesAbility to establish lightweight governance and security controls without unnecessarily slowing adoptionStrong working knowledge of Python and SQLStrong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with senior stakeholders as well as technical and non-technical teamsFamiliarity with major LLM-based tools and platforms; experience building AI workflows, agentic systems, reusable skills, automation loops, or autonomous workflows is strongly preferred3–6 years of relevant experience in business operations, strategy, data, automation, engineering, AI, consulting, or a related technical/operational roleComfortable working with APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, identity systems, Git-based workflows, and automation platformsA practical, ownership-oriented mindset focused on deploying solutions that are scalable, reliable, measurable, secure, and reusableStrong understanding of business operations and the ability to translate ambiguous operational problems into practical technical solutionsBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, Business Analytics, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, or another quantitative or technically oriented fieldEquivalent practical experience may be considered in place of a specific degreeExperience in business operations, consulting, strategy and operations, analytics, technical program management, automation, or internal tooling is preferredExperience with cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure, source control such as Git/GitHub, and enterprise identity or access-management systemsDemonstrated experience deploying AI, automation, or data solutions into real business workflowsFamiliarity with AI governance, data classification, security reviews, access controls, monitoring, or workflow/model evaluationExperience independently identifying high-impact opportunities, designing solutions, and driving adoption across multiple teamsExperience working in a fast-paced technology company or similarly high-ownership environment is a plus