Senior AI & Automation Lead — Hybrid NZ

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Enhanced Parental Leave

EAP support

Job summary

Timescapes is hiring a Senior Automation & AI Engineer to lead AI and data initiatives across the product and internal platforms. You will identify bottlenecks, build agentic AI workflows, and streamline processes while maintaining ownership of deliverables.

You will collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success and Ops to maximize impact, manage external vendors when needed, and ensure cost-effective, scalable solutions within a hybrid Auckland, NZ office.

Qualifications

• 5+ years across automation, data, analytics engineering or related roles with hands-on AI work.
• Portfolio of built work; able to walk us through projects.
• Experience in fast-moving SaaS or startup environments with end-to-end ownership.
• Experience scoping and managing external vendors/contractors.
• Construction or hardware industry experience is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Identify friction points across teams and prioritize high-payoff AI/automation work.
• Track AI/automation possibilities and assess tools worth adopting.
• Map current workflows and understand value flow before automating.
• Build and deploy AI workflows and internal tools across multiple systems.
• Own and maintain the systems you build, ensuring reliability.
• Manage vendors/contractors where building isn’t optimal and control costs.
• Define data entities and source of truth for trusted company reporting.

Skills

Automation

Data engineering

Analytics

AI hands-on

Vendor management

SaaS/Startup experience

Tools

HubSpot

Odoo

Chargebee

Mixpanel

n8n

Superset

MotherDuck

Job description

Timescapes is hiring a Senior Automation & AI Engineer to lead AI and data initiatives across the product and internal platforms. You will identify bottlenecks, build agentic AI workflows, and streamline processes while maintaining ownership of deliverables.

You will collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success and Ops to maximize impact, manage external vendors when needed, and ensure cost-effective, scalable solutions within a hybrid Auckland, NZ office.