AI Innovation Engineer
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AI Innovation Engineer building Python agentic workflows, MCP integrations, and AI tools for 829 Studios, a Boston-based digital marketing agency. Driving adoption across marketing operations.
Responsibilities:
- Drive operational excellence through AI-native tools and workflows across the organization
- Partner with VPs, directors, sales leadership, subject matter experts, and senior leaders
- Architect and build proprietary AI agents and automation workflows using company-specific data
- Develop and manage a playbook covering discovery, pilots, improvement, implementation, adoption, and measurement
- Lead pilots and proofs of concept across multiple disciplines
- Develop and maintain AI-tool, business-system, and advertising-platform integrations
- Build APIs, validation frameworks, and data pipelines
- Collaborate with subject matter experts to ensure workflows are valuable, usable, and connected to appropriate data
- Establish systems and cadences to improve adoption, check outputs, measure progress, and revisit training
- Own documentation of the AI stack, including tool inventory, vendor strategy, build-vs-buy posture, integration map, and shared-context architecture
- Develop reusable patterns, agentic workflows, and MCP integrations
- Consult on build-versus-buy decisions
- Run internal training, office hours, and troubleshooting clinics
- Advise on service-model artifacts, scope-of-work content, pricing implications, policies, and marketing collateral
- Contribute to AI policies and SOPs that mitigate risk
- Catalogue workflows, skills, and AI tools
- Integrate workflows into a custom frontend with the Head of Apollo and engineering resources
- Support growth of the innovation function as a center of excellence or extension of the Data Platform, Apollo
Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional experience, including at least 2 years in the marketing/agency space
- Engineering foundation sufficient to evaluate tools, build agentic workflows, ship MCP integrations, and use Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex as daily workflow
- Working knowledge of security and performance best practices in traditional software and agentic environments
- Hands-on fluency with Python and at least one of TypeScript, SQL, or relevant scripting environments
- Ability to map business workflows end-to-end and identify where AI creates leverage
- Demonstrated track record of shipping production AI work that earned adoption
- Strong written and verbal communication; ability to explain technical architecture to non-technical executives and translate strategic intent into shipped workflows
- Demonstrated success influencing without authority and driving outcomes
- Experience with React/Node and custom front-end applications is a plus
- Understanding of paid, earned, and owned media tools and systems is a plus
- Familiarity with BigQuery, DBT, DLT, and GCP is a plus
- Public track record of shipped AI work is a plus
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States
Benefits:
- Option to work remotely from eligible states or at the Boston office
- Generous paid vacation benefits increasing each year
- 12 company holidays
- Summer Fridays from Memorial Day through Labor Day
- 401(k) plan with 4% Safe Harbor employer match after one year
- Financial literacy services through retirement provider
- No-cost life insurance coverage
- Short-term disability benefit
- Healthcare plans with 80% employer coverage for medical and dental premiums
- 100% employer coverage for vision
- FSA participation option
- Commuter benefits with pre-tax funds and savings up to 40% annually
- Monthly team-led webinars
- Exclusive 829-cohort learning
- Digital course platforms
- Funding opportunities for national conferences and events












