Marketing AI Engineer

Avenue Z, Inc. is hiring an engineer who can turn marketing workflows into production AI systems. This onsite role in Miami, FL focuses on building and shipping AI agents, automations, and reporting that support paid media, creator and affiliate campaigns, CRO, and client reporting. If you want your work to directly impact throughput, margin, and decision-making, this is built for you.

What you’ll build

As the Marketing AI Engineer, you will design, implement, and deliver agent-based systems that connect marketing platforms and ecommerce data into actionable operations. The goal is practical, measurable improvement: autonomous ad operations, clearer reporting tied to revenue, and alerts that protect performance and brand safety.

• Build and ship AI agents, automations, and reporting systems that run paid media, creator and affiliate campaigns, CRO, and client reporting
• Integrate with Meta Marketing API, TikTok Business, TikTok Shop, Google Ads API, Snap, Shopify, and affiliate and creator platform APIs, including OAuth, token refresh, rate limits, webhooks, and partnership-access flows
• Create systems 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 what drove revenue, cross-referenced against Shopify as the source of truth

How you’ll work with the teams

You will embed with paid media, creator and affiliate, CRO, and ecommerce teams to understand today’s workflow, map inputs to outputs, and identify steps that should run automatically. The emphasis is on moving from manual processes to working systems quickly, with clear approval gates where money or brand safety is involved.

• Audit current workflows, define where a human approves versus where the system acts
• Turn messy manual work into an operational system inside weeks, not quarters
• Drive adoption by training the team, gathering feedback, and iterating
• Run intake and prioritization of automation requests based on revenue impact, time saved, or client retention
• Report progress, blockers, and measured impact to the CTO, and present to leadership

Technical leadership and quality standards

This is also a technical leadership role for AI builders across service lines. You will set and enforce standards for how agents and automations are designed, reviewed, documented, and shipped.

• Provide technical leadership on the product roadmap
• Set the standard for design review, code review, and shipping practices for AI agents and automations across service lines
• Review and mentor engineers building across PR, SEO and AEO, organic social, and ecommerce
• Unblock teams, raise quality, and own outcomes

Compensation and benefits

• Salary: USD 100,000 - 120,000 per year
• Medical, vision, and dental plans
• 401(k) plan with 4% employer match
• Unlimited PTO
• Professional development stipend

What you bring

• Background in growth marketing, with personal experience running paid media on at least one of Instagram and Facebook, Google, or TikTok, including campaign structure, pixels and events, attribution windows, creative testing, and interpretation of results
• 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), with real shipped work
• Deep, current, hands-on knowledge of how agencies and brands operate, where manual work sits, and what clients pay for
• Extensive hands-on experience with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar) and solid coding practice including version control, code review, environment and secrets management, testing, and documentation (degree not required, shipped work required)
• Experience leading others who build (principal engineer, founder, lead engineer, technical team lead, or product leadership), including setting and enforcing a quality bar
• Production experience building AI agents and automations, including prompts, tool use, approval gates, error handling, and monitoring; comfortable using Python or TypeScript and agent/workflow stacks such as n8n or Make when appropriate
• A portfolio of projects or code repositories you can walk through
• Based in, or relocating at your own expense to, Miami or Orlando; Onsite

Technologies you’ll use

Meta Marketing API, TikTok Business API, TikTok Shop API, Google Ads API, Snap, Shopify, Klaviyo, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Python, TypeScript, n8n, Make, OAuth, webhooks

Preferred

• Experience in an ecommerce or performance marketing agency, or on a DTC brand growth team
• Experience with TikTok Shop, creator and affiliate marketing, or influencer campaigns
• Data work experience: SQL, BigQuery or similar warehouse, Looker Studio or similar BI tools
• Shopify app or Shopify API experience
• Experience building and shipping something you have built and sold, launched, or run