AppLovin

Sr. AI Strategy and Operations Analyst

AppLovin • $150K — $200K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-6 years of relevant experience in business operations, data, automation, or AI.
  • Experience leading cross-functional technology, automation, or data initiatives.
  • Strong understanding of business operations and technical solutions.
  • Proficient in Python and SQL, with comfort in working with APIs and databases.
  • Familiarity with LLM-based tools and experience in building AI workflows or automation systems.
  • Ability to establish lightweight governance and security controls.
  • Strong communication skills for engaging with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute AI adoption roadmaps across business functions.
  • Partner with various teams to identify high-value opportunities in AI and automation.
  • Build monitoring systems for AI-powered data pipelines and automations.
  • Document dashboards, metrics, and calculation logic clearly.
  • Operate a comprehensive internal AI skills and automation program.
  • Build and manage libraries of reusable AI skills and workflows.
  • Support internal AI champions and power users across the organization.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive dental and vision coverage.
  • Competitive pay structure with performance-based rewards.
  • Equity and incentive compensation as applicable.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development.
  • Flexible working conditions depending on job role.
Full Job Description
About the Role:

We are looking for someone to join our AI Strategy team to drive the adoption of AI and automation across business teams. This role will sit at the intersection of business operations, data, engineering, and AI, helping teams turn manual workflows into scalable, secure, and measurable AI-enabled processes.

What success looks like in this role:

Success means enabling teams across the organization to use AI safely and with increasing independence, replacing manual processes with repeatable workflows, scaling high-impact use cases across functions, and delivering measurable improvements in productivity, quality, reliability, and operational risk.

Responsibilities:
  • Define and execute AI adoption roadmaps across business functions.
  • Partner with Finance, Legal, HR, and other teams to identify high-value opportunities for AI, automation, and workflow improvement.
  • Build monitoring and alerting for AI-powered data pipelines, integrations, and automations.
  • Establish clear documentation for dashboards, metrics, data sources, ownership, and calculation logic.
  • Operate an internal AI skills and automation program, including:
    • User onboarding and enablement
    • Contributor and skill-author approvals
    • Security and governance reviews
    • Adoption, usage, and quality tracking
  • Build, launch and manage team-specific libraries of reusable AI skills, tools, and workflows.
  • Develop and support internal AI champions and power users across the organization.
  • Coordinate secure integrations between AI tools and enterprise systems, data platforms, APIs, spreadsheets, and third-party services.
  • Partner with IT, Security, Engineering, Data, and business teams to establish the required cloud, source-control, identity, permissions, and service-account infrastructure.
  • Develop reusable automation patterns for moving data between Python-based workflows, APIs, databases, spreadsheets, and internal systems.
  • Translate operational business processes into reusable AI capabilities, including:
    • Multi-source data reconciliation
    • Query and scripting assistance
    • Data-import troubleshooting
    • Integration diagnostics
    • Audit and evidence collection
    • User-access and permissions reviews
    • Reporting and operational workflow automation
  • Interview business users to assess AI maturity, identify high-value use cases, surface capability gaps, and develop internal champions.
  • Create practical data-classification and governance guidance for safe AI use.
  • Define and track success metrics across adoption, quality, time savings, reliability, operational efficiency, and risk reduction.
  • Build a repeatable onboarding framework and establish standards and reusable patterns that allow new teams to adopt AI safely and efficiently, and successful workflows to scale across teams rather than remaining isolated solutions.
What We're Looking For:
  • 3-6 years of relevant experience in business operations, strategy, data, automation, engineering, AI, consulting, or a related technical/operational role.
  • Experience independently owning or driving cross-functional technology, automation, data, or AI initiatives from problem definition through implementation and adoption.
  • Strong understanding of business operations and the ability to translate ambiguous operational problems into practical technical solutions.
  • Comfortable working with APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, identity systems, Git-based workflows, and automation platforms.
  • Strong working knowledge of Python and SQL.
  • Familiarity with major LLM-based tools and platforms; experience building AI workflows, agentic systems, reusable skills, automation loops, or autonomous workflows is strongly preferred.
  • Experience integrating enterprise systems, data platforms, spreadsheets, APIs, and third-party services.
  • Ability to establish lightweight governance and security controls without unnecessarily slowing adoption.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with senior stakeholders as well as technical and non-technical teams.
  • A practical, ownership-oriented mindset focused on deploying solutions that are scalable, reliable, measurable, secure, and reusable.
Preferred Education and Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, Business Analytics, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, or another quantitative or technically oriented field.
  • Equivalent practical experience may be considered in place of a specific degree.
  • Experience in business operations, consulting, strategy and operations, analytics, technical program management, automation, or internal tooling is preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience deploying AI, automation, or data solutions into real business workflows.
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure, source control such as Git/GitHub, and enterprise identity or access-management systems.
  • Familiarity with AI governance, data classification, security reviews, access controls, monitoring, or workflow/model evaluation.
  • Experience independently identifying high-impact opportunities, designing solutions, and driving adoption across multiple teams.
  • Experience working in a fast-paced technology company or similarly high-ownership environment is a plus.


AppLovin provides a competitive total compensation package with a pay for performance rewards approach. Total compensation at AppLovin is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Depending on the position offered, equity, and other forms of incentive compensation (as applicable) may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to dental, vision, and other benefits.

This posting is for a new position.

Canada base pay range (total compensation package will be commensurate with experience)

$150,000-$200,000 CAD

About AppLovin

Applovin Corporation, doing business as AppLovin, is a mobile technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 2012, it operated in stealth mode until 2014. AppLovin enables developers of all sizes to market, monetize, analyze and publish their apps through its mobile advertising, marketing, and analytics platforms MAX, AppDiscovery, and SparkLabs. AppLovin operates Lion Studios, which works with game developers to promote and publish their mobile games. AppLovin also has large investments in various mobile game publishers. In 2020, 49% of AppLovin's revenue came from businesses using its software and 51% from consumers making in-app purchases. AppLovin was founded in 2012 by Adam Foroughi, John Krystynak, and Andrew Karam. Foroughi stated that the AppLovin name came from Bloglovin', a content organizing company, contrary to reports of an homage to the Christopher Mintz-Plasse character from the 2007 film, Superbad. The company operated in stealth mode until 2014, raising $4 million in financing from angel investors, Streamlined Ventures and the Webb Investment Network. Before emerging from stealth mode, AppLovin acquired customers including Opentable and Spotify. In October 2014, AppLovin purchased the German mobile ad-network, Moboqo. On September 26, 2016, it was reported that AppLovin had agreed to be acquired by the Chinese private equity firm, Orient Hontai Capital, for $1.42 billion; the acquisition deal was subsequently abandoned for debt investment after opposition to the plans from CFIUS. The company was ranked #10 on the 2016 Deloitte Fast 500 North America list, and again in 2018. Foroughi was recognized on the 2017 San Francisco Business Times "40 Under 40" list.
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Market Cap
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2012
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