Staff AI Techops Lead

1Password 1Password · Enterprise · United States, Canada · Remote · Customer Experience

This role focuses on designing, building, and optimizing AI-powered workflows and systems within the Customer Experience (CX) post-sales tech stack. The engineer will integrate AI tools, build automations for various CX functions, and ensure scalability and reliability of these systems. The role requires a blend of systems thinking, coding proficiency (Python, SQL), and experience with integration platforms and LLM APIs.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and implement AI-powered solutions across CX tools like Zendesk, Salesforce, Rocketlane, Gong and Gainsight
  2. Gather requirements from CX Operations leaders and stakeholders, documenting current-state workflows and translating business needs into technical specifications across the support lifecycle
  3. Build and maintain integration AI solutions and workflows, including but not limited to system-to-system automations across Zendesk, Salesforce, and Gainsight
  4. Build tools and automations for ticket routing, case summarization, sentiment analysis, knowledge base surfacing, and proactive churn signals
  5. Develop internal APIs and scripts to streamline CX workflows and reduce manual effort for support teams

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of experience in CX Operations, support engineering, or automation development, with direct exposure to post-sales workflows
  • Hands-on experience with an enterprise integration/iPaaS platform (Workato, Tines, Zapier, or similar) to build and maintain cross-system automations
  • Ability to gather and document business requirements, map workflows, and communicate process changes to non-technical stakeholders
  • Strong communicator who can translate complex technical solutions for non-technical CX stakeholders
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL for building automations, working with APIs, and integrating AI tools
  • Experience using LLM APIs (e.g. OpenAI) cloud platforms (e.g. AWS or GCP) and version control (Git) tools to solve business problems
  • Comfortable working with APIs and automating across SaaS tools like Zendesk, Salesforce, Gong, and Gainsight

Nice to have

  • Experience deploying internal tools with platforms like Retool, Streamlit, Slack bots, or Dust
  • Understanding of CX data structures including ticketing systems, customer health scoring, and escalation logic
  • Experience with process mapping, business requirements documentation, or workflow analysis (e.g. swim lane diagrams, RACI frameworks, process narratives)
  • Experience with support workflow automation (e.g. macros, triggers, AI deflection)
  • Relational data modelling experience in a data warehouse
  • Past experience implementing AI use cases in a custom

What the JD emphasized

  • AI agent
  • LLM APIs
  • Python
  • SQL
  • iPaaS platform
  • CX Operations
  • post-sales workflows
  • automation development

Other signals

  • AI agent
  • LLM APIs
  • automation