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You&#39;ll work from our San Francisco headquarters most days a week.</p>\n<h3>What You&#39;ll Do</h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Build AI-enabled tools and agents that automate manual work across engineering, support, and operations</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Write bots and integrations for Slack, PagerDuty, and the other systems we run the business on</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Build internal dashboards that give the team visibility into what&#39;s actually happening</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Integrate LLM APIs and AI coding tools directly into the internal systems you build</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ship small, useful things fast. 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Define the metrics that matter and hold the program accountable to them.</li>\n<li>Build and manage a global events calendar. Evaluate, prioritize, and execute a disciplined portfolio of events.</li>\n<li>Own and manage the events budget with clear ROI frameworks, financial discipline, and the ability to reallocate based on performance data.</li>\n<li>Manage vendors, agencies, venues, AV, and creative partners; hold external partners to the same quality standard expected internally.</li>\n<li>Operate as a highly hands-on individual contributor while setting strategy. 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