Marketing AI Engineer

Responsibilities

• Build against the marketing platforms our revenue runs on
• Integrate with the Meta Marketing API, TikTok Business and TikTok Shop APIs, Google Ads API, Snap, Shopify, and affiliate and creator platform APIs: OAuth and token refresh, rate limits, webhooks, and partnership-access flows.
• Build agents and automations for ad launching and QA, budget pacing and reallocation, creative tagging and performance intelligence, anomaly detection, and cross-platform commission tracking.
• Build the reporting layer that shows a brand what actually drove revenue, cross-referenced against Shopify as the source of truth.
• Sit with paid media, creator and affiliate, CRO, and ecommerce teams. Audit how they work today, map the workflow from input to output, and find the steps that should run automatically.
• Turn a messy manual process into a working system inside weeks, not quarters. Define where a human approves and where the system acts on its own, especially where money or brand safety is on the line.
• Drive adoption. A system that ships and sits unused does not count. Train the team, gather feedback, and iterate.
• Provide technical leadership on product roadmap.
• Be an expert in building and shipping production ready solutions.
• Set the standard for how Avenue Z designs, reviews, documents, and ships agents and automations across service lines, and enforce it through code review and design review.

Requirements

• A background in growth marketing. You have personally run paid media on at least one of Instagram and Facebook, Google, or TikTok, and you understand campaign structure, pixels and events, attribution windows, creative testing, and what the numbers mean.
• Hands-on experience working with the Meta Marketing API and the TikTok Business or TikTok Shop APIs, plus other marketing platform APIs (Google Ads, Shopify, Klaviyo, affiliate and creator platforms). You have built something real against them, not read the docs.
• Deep, current, hands-on knowledge of the digital marketing industry: how agencies and brands actually operate, where the manual work sits, and what clients pay for.
• Extensive hands-on experience with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar) and a working command of good coding practice: version control, code review, environment and secrets management, testing, and documentation. A computer science degree is not required. Shipped work is.
• Experience leading others who build. You have been a principal engineer, a founder, a lead engineer, a technical team lead, or a leader of product managers, and you have set and enforced a quality bar for a team's work.
• Experience building AI agents and automations in production: prompts, tool use, approval gates, error handling, and monitoring, using whatever stack fits (Python or TypeScript, agent frameworks, workflow platforms such as n8n or Make where they are the right tool).
• A portfolio of projects or code repositories you can walk us through (see below).
• Based in, or relocating at your own expense to, Miami or Orlando. Onsite.

Preferred

• Experience in an ecommerce or performance marketing agency, or on a DTC brand's growth team.
• TikTok Shop, creator and affiliate marketing, or influencer campaign experience.
• Data work: SQL, BigQuery or a similar warehouse, Looker Studio or similar BI tools.
• Shopify app or Shopify API experience.
• You have built and sold, launched, or run something of your own.
• Critical traits: Moves fast and learns fast.
• Critical traits: Thinks in systems and sees ambiguity as a build opportunity.
• Critical traits: Commercially aware: knows the difference between an impressive demo and a system that makes or saves money.
• Critical traits: High agency. Does not wait to be assigned the problem.
• Critical traits: Good judgment on what should be automated and what should stay human.

Benefits

• Salary: $100k-$120k
• Medical, vision, and dental plans
• 401(k) plan with 4% employer match
• Unlimited PTO
• Professional development stipend