Strategy & Ops Engineer
Lully
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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About the role
- Identify manual, repetitive, and error-prone operational workflows across the company
- Design and build internal tools, automations, and lightweight services to replace manual processes
- Integrate systems across finance, sales, procurement, legal, and customer support
- Write production-quality scripts, services, or automations (APIs, cron jobs, data pipelines, internal dashboards)
- Own operational systems from design through deployment, monitoring, and iteration
- Analyze operational data to prioritize high-leverage improvements and measure impact
- Reduce dependency on administrative headcount through automation and system design
- Improve go-to-market operations by building better tooling between sales, finance, and legal
- Support contract management and procurement through structured, automated workflows
- Ensure data accuracy, reliability, and observability across operational systems
- Execute ambiguous, high-impact operational projects with minimal guidance
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and comfort shipping real systems
- Experience building automations or internal tools using Python, SQL, APIs, and/or scripting languages
- Ability to reason about systems, edge cases, failure modes, and long-term maintainability
- Strong business intuition—understanding how operational systems affect cost, speed, and scale
- Extreme ownership: you find problems, design solutions, and ship without being asked
- High agency, urgency, and comfort operating in ambiguity
- Clear written and verbal communication
Benefits
- Opportunity to work at a high-growth AI startup, backed by top investors.
- Rapidly growing and backed by top investors including a16z, Y Combinator, and Base10.
- Ownership & Autonomy - Take full ownership of projects and ship fast.
- Work With the Best - Join a world-class team of engineers and builders.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonSQLAPIsscripting languagesdata pipelinesinternal dashboardsautomationsystem designproduction-quality scriptsoperational workflows
Soft Skills
strong business intuitionextreme ownershiphigh agencyurgencycomfort operating in ambiguityclear written communicationclear verbal communicationproblem-solvingdesign solutionsprioritization