Forward-Deployed Ops Lead: AI Automation & Execution

Bolt Farm Treehouse, LLC; Tennessee; Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health stipend

Profit-pool participation

Hybrid work model

On-site deployment in Whitwell, TN

Job summary

Bolt Farm Treehouse, LLC is a luxury resort redefining hospitality through AI-first operations and radical ownership. You’ll be deployed where your skills create the most leverage, then redeployed as missions shift.

Lead Forward Deployed Operator is the senior-most on our strike team, architecting end-to-end solutions, mentoring others, and owning outcomes in high-ambiguity environments. This role reports directly to the Founder and offers a hybrid on-site deployment model in Whitwell, TN, with

Qualifications

• Must have 3+ years building operational systems, automations, or internal tools in a fast-moving environment.
• Demonstrated build portfolio of shipped systems.
• Proficiency with at least two: Zapier, n8n, Make, Cursor, Python, or low-code platforms.
• Track record of autonomous execution — you’ve been the person who gets pointed at problems, not the person who delegates them.
• Comfortable with radical transparency, direct feedback, and a founder-led operating model.
• Nice-to-haves: hospitality, resort, or guest-experience operations background.
• Nice-to-haves: experience with AI agent frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, etc.).
• Nice-to-haves: prior startup or founder’s-office experience.

Responsibilities

• Get deployed to the highest-priority operational problem in the business, regardless of department.
• Architect multi-system workflows that eliminate manual work and reduce error rates.
• Build, ship, and iterate on AI-augmented operational systems (automations, agent pipelines, internal tools).
• Triage incoming strike requests and sequence them by business impact.
• Mentor Forward Deployed Associates and Operators on execution speed, build quality, and ownership mindset.
• Context-switch between ops, tech, guest experience, and finance without ramp-up time.
• Document every system you build so the next person can run it without you.

Skills

AI fluency

Ownership reflex

Speed of execution

Build portfolio

Cross-functional fluency

Leadership under ambiguity

Tools

Zapier

n8n

Make

Cursor

Python

Low-code/no-code

Job description

Bolt Farm Treehouse, LLC is a luxury resort redefining hospitality through AI-first operations and radical ownership. You’ll be deployed where your skills create the most leverage, then redeployed as missions shift.

Lead Forward Deployed Operator is the senior-most on our strike team, architecting end-to-end solutions, mentoring others, and owning outcomes in high-ambiguity environments. This role reports directly to the Founder and offers a hybrid on-site deployment model in Whitwell, TN, with