AI Operations Engineer

About the Company

This opportunity is with a fast-moving consumer technology business building a portfolio of AI-powered consumer products for a global audience. The business is well funded and led by a founder who has built and sold several consumer internet businesses.

The portfolio spans consumer AI, prediction markets and AI-generated content, with live products already in market. The founder is based in the US, and the operating, product and engineering team is based in South Africa. The team is small, moves fast and works in AI every day.

Job Overview

We are looking for a technology graduate with some hands-on commercial work experience, who lives in AI, to join the CEO’s operations team. You will be the third person in a team of three, working alongside two colleagues in similar AI-focused roles.

Your job is to make the business run smarter and faster with AI. You will build automations that take slow, manual work off the CEO and the team, using tools like Claude Code, Claude and ChatGPT. If the business needs a web app, landing page or internal tool, you will use AI to put it together. With the help of AI, you will be able to do almost anything technical that is asked of you.

You will often get a one-line brief and be trusted to run with it. The CEO travels the world, so you will work fully remotely, independently and at times across different time zones.

Above all, you will be mentored one on one by a successful, serial global entrepreneur. For someone ambitious, it is a rare chance to learn how a successful business is built from the inside, and to grow into an entrepreneur yourself.

Duties and Responsibilities

AI Automation

• Build automations that streamline the business’s operational processes, using Claude Code, Claude, ChatGPT and other AI models.
• Find manual, repetitive tasks across the business and turn them into simple, repeatable automated processes.
• Build and maintain AI agents and workflows that support the CEO and the team.

Builds

• Put together web applications, landing pages and internal tools with the help of AI.
• Connect the tools the business uses so information flows between them without manual work.

Operations and Problem-Solving

• Take a short brief from the CEO and deliver a working result with minimal direction.
• Document the processes and systems you build so the team can use and improve them.
• Work closely with the two other members of the operations team, sharing the workload and handing over cleanly.

Minimum Requirements

• A degree in a STEM field, information technology, computer science, information systems or similar.
• At least one year of hands-on commercial work experience, ideally using AI or technology to improve how a business runs.
• Hands-on experience building with AI tools such as Claude Code, Claude and ChatGPT.
• Experience creating automations or AI workflows that save time or simplify a process.
• Able to put a simple web application or landing page together with the help of AI.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable working independently and remotely, using initiative to figure things out.

Nice-To-Have

• Coding experience in Python, JavaScript or similar.
• Experience with automation tools such as n8n, Zapier or Make.
• Experience building AI agents.
• A portfolio or GitHub of things you have built.

Personal Attributes

• Lives in AI and is always trying new tools to get things done faster.
• Ambitious and eager to learn from a successful entrepreneur.
• Thinks out of the box and solves problems without waiting to be told.
• Fast learner who keeps up in a fast-moving business.
• Discreet and trustworthy with confidential business information.

How to Apply?

If you are a technology graduate with commercial experience who builds with AI every day and wants to be mentored by a successful global entrepreneur, we would like to hear from you.

Send your CV, and links to anything you have built, to charne@skillzpage.com

(If you do not hear from us within 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.)