AI Marketing Technologist Lead

Plaid Plaid · Fintech · San Francisco, CA · All Departments

This role focuses on integrating AI into marketing workflows, designing and deploying AI-powered agents and automations, evaluating AI tools, and optimizing the marketing technology ecosystem. It requires hands-on experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and AI automation platforms, with a strong builder mentality for 0-to-1 development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the strategy and execution for integrating AI into marketing workflows, identifying high-impact opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability, and performance.
  2. Design, build, and deploy AI-powered agents and automations that support marketing workflows.
  3. Evaluate emerging AI tools and technologies, staying current on industry trends and translating new capabilities into practical marketing applications.
  4. Partner cross-functionally across Marketing, BI, GTM Ops, and Web Engineering teams to implement and scale AI-enabled workflows and drive adoption.
  5. Lead change management efforts by training teams, evolving workflows, and helping employees transition from manual execution to managing AI-assisted systems.

Skills

Required

  • Hands-on experience designing and deploying AI-powered workflows, agentic systems, or marketing AI agents that improve operational efficiency and scalability.
  • Strong experience working with LLMs, prompt engineering, AI automation platforms, and emerging AI technologies.
  • Deep understanding of marketing operations and experience with marketing automation platforms, including campaign creation, workflow management, testing, and optimization.
  • Proficiency with SQL, Tableau, and other BI/data visualization tools, with the ability to analyze large datasets and translate insights into actionable recommendations.
  • Strong analytical and systems-thinking mindset, with the ability to identify inefficiencies, solve complex operational problems, and design scalable solutions.
  • Excellent cross-functional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across Marketing, Operations, BI, and Engineering teams.

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
  • Demonstrated success driving transformational change within an organization, including influencing teams to adopt new technologies, workflows, or operating models.
  • Highly organized and execution-oriented, with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously in fast-paced environments.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and rapid change, with a proactive, builder-oriented mindset and a strong drive for continuous improvement.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI into marketing workflows
  • AI-powered agents and automations
  • Evaluate emerging AI tools and technologies
  • AI-enabled workflows
  • managing AI-assisted systems
  • AI tooling
  • AI-powered workflows
  • agentic systems
  • marketing AI agents
  • LLMs, prompt engineering, AI automation platforms

Other signals

  • AI into marketing workflows
  • AI-powered agents and automations
  • Evaluate emerging AI tools and technologies
  • LLMs, prompt engineering, AI automation platforms