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Business Operations Associate, AI & Automation

Instawork
San Francisco, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 3 Aug 2026
💰 $130,000/yr($90,000/yr$130,000/yr)

About the role

Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works.

We're hiring a Business Operations Associate to support variable pay and quota-setting across our GTM organization — and, more importantly, to help us automate and rebuild how this work gets done using AI. This is a builder's seat: high ownership, a lot of latitude, and real upside for someone who ships. Traditional RevOps experience is a plus, not a prerequisite — what we're optimizing for is an instinct for turning manual, spreadsheet-heavy process into agents and workflows.

Who You Are

Required

  • Comfortable using AI tools daily (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, n8n, Replit, or similar), and genuinely excited to get better at directing them to do real work
  • A builder's instinct — when you see a manual, repetitive process, your first thought is “how do I automate this,” not just “how do I do this faster”
  • 0–3 years of experience in an analytical, operational, or cross-functional business role (revenue operations, sales operations, finance, business/product operations, or similar) — new grads with strong internship experience welcome
  • Willingness to learn SQL well enough to draft queries with AI assistance and sanity-check the output against source data — you don't need to arrive fluent
  • Strong Excel/Sheets skills and comfort with ambiguous, spreadsheet-heavy problems
  • High attention to detail — this role touches people's paychecks, and precision matters
  • Clear, professional communication — you'll coordinate directly with sales leaders, Finance, and Legal, and need to hold your own in those conversations

Nice to Have

  • Coursework or project experience with SQL, dbt, or BI tools (Mode, Looker, Tableau)
  • Exposure to Salesforce or another CRM — this isn't a CRM-admin role, and we'd rather teach Salesforce to a strong builder than teach the automation instinct to a CRM specialist
  • A personal project, class project, or internship where you built a script, automation, or tool that saved someone time
  • Interest in sales compensation, forecasting, or GTM strategy as a career path

What You'll Do

AI & Agentic Automation

  • Partner with the RevOps team to turn manual, spreadsheet-heavy steps of the comp process into small agents, scripts, and workflows — starting with well-scoped pieces, not the whole cycle.
  • Examples of what a strong first project might look like: a checklist-style agent that flags obvious mismatches between a payout file and source data, a Replit tool that answers reps' basic crediting questions, an n8n workflow that reminds managers when their target approvals are due.
  • Tools we use today: Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, n8n, Replit. No software engineering background required — you'll get support from the team on how to build these. What matters is curiosity and follow-through on shipping something real.

Comp Operations Support

  • Support monthly and quarterly comp cycles: pull data, run reconciliation checks, help track down discrepancies, and keep documentation current.
  • Help run the quarterly target-setting process — collecting inputs, formatting target packages, tracking approvals, and keeping the timeline on track.
  • Assist with new-hire guarantees, crediting exceptions, and manager comp questions, with guidance from senior RevOps and Finance partners as you build judgment on trickier calls.

Forecasting & Pipeline Analytics

  • Help maintain weekly and monthly forecast roll-ups and pipeline dashboards (coverage, stage conversion, velocity, aging).
  • Pull together data and first-pass analysis for the VP of Sales and CFO ahead of QBRs, under the direction of the senior RevOps lead.

Plan Design & Process Improvement

  • Support the annual comp planning cycle — research, drafting, formatting, and coordinating review cycles with Legal and leadership.
  • Bring a fresh eye to how the team's processes work today, and pitch specific, scoped improvements as you learn the function.

For CA-based applicants:

The base salary for this position is $90,000 - $130,000.

This position is eligible for equity in the form of stock options.

This position is eligible for Instawork benefits, including:

  • Medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire
  • Flexible paid tim

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