This role owns that. You'll go department by department, find where the time goes, and build the thing that takes it back. Sometimes that's an internal app. Sometimes it's an automation nobody notices. Sometimes it's teaching a team to use AI properly, which is often the highest leverage thing available. Then you roll it out and stay on it until people actually use it. We already have the list, and it's long.
What You'll Do- Own internal tools end to end, from the hallway conversation that surfaces the problem through architecture, build, rollout, and the week two fixes.
- Build AI powered internal systems in the mold of Bidbuddy: document parsing and analysis, agentic workflows, automated research and routing, and tooling that turns hours of manual work into minutes.
- Work directly with leads across Proposals, Customer Ops, Sales, Design, and Engineering to find where the time is going, and translate half-formed asks into something worth building.
- Drive AI enablement across the company. Every person at Kaizen should know how to get the most out of these tools.
- Support the external analytics layer inside Kaizen's platform, so customers have clear, actionable data at their fingertips
- Back up the deployment team during an implementation
What You'll Bring- 2 to 5 years of engineering, data, or applied AI experience, or work that makes the years irrelevant. Slope matters more than seniority
- Something you built end to end that a team still uses today: an internal application, an automation, a tool that changed how people work. Not a prototype, not a demo
- Genuine fluency with AI tools. You've shipped with them, not just explored them, and you can name where they failed you and how you caught it
- Strong SQL and enough data modeling to work in an existing warehouse and ship a model when the job calls for it
- The ability to take a vague problem from a non-technical stakeholder and come back with the right scope, not the requested one
- Low ego, high output. You do the unglamorous rollout work because that's what makes the build matter
Strong Candidates May Also...- Have built internal tooling at a company where the hard part was getting hundreds of people to change how they work
- Come out of forward deployed or solutions engineering at an AI or developer tools company, where the job was making software work inside someone else's mess
- Know N8N, Zapier, or similar deeply enough to have a view on when not to reach for them
- Have built in government, healthcare, or another environment where getting it wrong has consequences
What Kaizen OffersHealth & Insurance- 100% coverage across the board: medical through Oxford/United (Gold and Platinum PPO plans), dental through Guardian PPO, and vision through Beam - all fully covered for employees, with 100% coverage for dependents.
- $100,000 in fully paid life insurance. FSA and Dependent Care FSA.
- One Medical membership, on us - same-day primary care, 24/7 virtual visits, and offices all over the city.
- Fertility and family-building support through Carrot.
- 401(k) through Guideline, with a 2% company match.
Family & Time Off- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for birthing parents. 10 weeks fully paid for non-birthing parents.
- Unlimited PTO, with a two-week minimum (we mean it when we say take time off!)
- Closed for all federal holidays.
- Company-wide winter break the week of Christmas.
- Company offsites throughout the year.
Office & Remote Setup- Up to $750 one-time home office or desk setup stipend for NYC-based employees. $500 for remote employees.
- $50/month commuter benefit (company contribution).
- Expensed lunch while in the office.
- Company-provided laptop of your choice.
Wellness- Fully covered gym membership at Grindhouse - right across the street from our office at 47 W 17th St (and in Williamsburg). A $225/month value, on us. For remote employees, $100/month dedicated to gym or physical fitness reimbursement.
Stipends- $100/month utility stipend.
- $500/year professional development.
- $250/year recreation.
- $300/quarter pet care stipend.
