Automation Engineer

Who are we? Auction Technology Group (ATG) is transforming the multi-billion-dollar global auction industry. Our platforms connect thousands of auction houses with buyers in over 170 countries, powering more than $15 billion in annual sales. Through innovative online auction technologies, we help auctioneers expand their reach, boost efficiency, and maximize value—while giving bidders unrivaled access to rare and specialized items. As a publicly traded company, ATG has scaled from $18 million to $170 million in revenue, with sustained growth beyond the pandemic. We're modernizing one of the last industries to fully go digital—building a global, category-defining business in the process. Who are we looking for? As an Automation Associate, you’ll find the manual work that slows ATG down and build a solution that removes or eliminates the manual work. You’ll take automation opportunities from a sized-up idea to a working, deployed tool that real teams use every day across Operations, Finance, and HR. This is a build role. You’ll sit with the people doing the work to understand how a process runs today, size what automating it is worth, design the future-state flow, document the requirements, and then build the solution yourself using AI-assisted development tools. From there you’ll deploy it inside the business, drive adoption, and track the time and cost it gives back. We’re looking for someone who has already automated things nobody asked them to automate, because the manual version annoyed them. You might come from operations, analytics, support, or a technical background; what matters is a track record of building working things and the judgment to know when a process should be fixed rather than automated. This role delivers against ATG’s Hands-Off Keyboard (HOK) mandate: our commitment to taking manual work out of the business. You’ll work alongside our Applied AI Lead, who sets the standards, reviews your work, and will help you grow. This role is built as a launchpad: do it well and the path to Automation Manager is a short and clear one. What are the key responsibilities? Opportunity Sizing Take automation opportunities from the intake pipeline and work out what they’re actually worth. You’ll quantify the manual effort a process consumes today, estimate the time and cost a solution would return, and be candid when it isn’t worth building. Process Discovery & Design Sit with the teams doing the work to map how a process runs today. Design the future-state automated flow and document requirements clearly enough that the build is unambiguous. Building & Shipping Build the solution yourself using AI-assisted development and low-code tools. You’ll iterate quickly, test against real scenarios and messy real data, and get to a working product rather than a specification. Deployment & Adoption Roll tools out to the teams who’ll use them — training, documentation, and the follow-through that turns a launch into a habit. You’ll stay close after go-live, fix what breaks, and improve what people quietly work around. Ongoing Maintenance & Support You own what you build. Tools break, processes change, edge cases surface, and upstream systems get updated without warning. You’ll be the support line for the automations in your portfolio including triaging issues, fixing them quickly, and making improvements as the business evolves. Measurement Track what each automation delivers. Your numbers feed directly into how we prioritize what’s built next. Building Safely Work within the governance, security, and data-privacy standards we set for AI-built tools, and flag it early when a project runs up against them. Who are you? You build things. Automations, internal tools, scripts, apps, workflows, a spreadsheet that quietly runs something important. Comfortable with AI-assisted development and low-code tools, or clearly capable of picking them up fast. You do not need a software engineering background. Genuinely curious about how a business works. You ask why a process exists before you automate it, and you’re willing to tell someone their process should be deleted rather than built. Strong written communication — you can document a process, write clear requirements, and explain a tool to someone who didn’t build it. A self-starter who wants ownership early. You’ll get real projects quickly, and this role rewards people who run and fail fast. Bonus: exposure to operations, finance, or HR systems; experience in marketplaces or e-commerce; familiarity with tools such as Lovable, ClaudeCode, Zapier, Airtable, or similar. Auction Technology Group is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $65,000 to $75,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. ATG (Auction Technology Group)