Senior AI Automation Engineer — Build Cross-Tool Flows (Hybrid)

Timescapes; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Enhanced parental leave

Job summary

Timescapes in Auckland, New Zealand is hiring a hands-on builder to lead AI and data initiatives. You will own the identification and framing of high-leverage problems, then design and implement agentic AI, automation and data workflows that span teams.

This is an individual contributor role, scoped to optimize internal processes and improve how Timescapes runs. You will collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success and Product, while managing vendors when needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years across automation, data, analytics engineering or related roles with hands-on AI work.
• Portfolio of things you have built and can walk us through.
• Experience in fast-moving SaaS/startup environments owning outcomes end-to-end.
• Experience scoping and managing external vendors and contractors.
• Construction or hardware industry experience is a bonus, not a requirement.
• Must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand.

Responsibilities

• Find and frame work by partnering with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Service Delivery, Field Service, Finance and Product to identify friction and payoff.
• Identify new ways of operating; evaluate AI/automation tools and their impact on our workflows.
• Map how work actually happens, before automating, to deliver value and identify undocumented steps.
• Build and deploy agentic AI workflows, automations and internal tools across multiple systems.
• Own and maintain automation systems and flows, and manage vendors or contractors when needed.
• Manage costs by keeping running costs visible and justified to teams using the solutions.
• Define system entities and source of truth; ensure trustworthy company reporting.
• Lead enablement and guardrails: share playbooks, upskill teams, enforce privacy and security standards.
• Role does not own admin for business systems; focus on integration and flow between systems; influence tools adoption.
• In first 12 months replace manual processes with self-running flows; empower teams to build and improve flows.

Skills

Hands-on AI

Automation

Data engineering

APIs & scripting

Vendor management

Tools

HubSpot

Odoo

Chargebee

Mixpanel

n8n

Superset

MotherDuck

Job description

Timescapes in Auckland, New Zealand is hiring a hands-on builder to lead AI and data initiatives. You will own the identification and framing of high-leverage problems, then design and implement agentic AI, automation and data workflows that span teams.

This is an individual contributor role, scoped to optimize internal processes and improve how Timescapes runs. You will collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success and Product, while managing vendors when needed.