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Automation Engineer, Growth

Parabola

San Francisco, CAFull-time$130–165K/yrPosted todayStill listed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$130–165K/yr
Location
San Francisco, CA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Automation Engineer, Growth partners with strategic and growing accounts after implementation to sustain adoption, expand use cases, and deliver measurable business impact. The role combines customer strategy, technical workflow design, stakeholder alignment, and renewals. The engineer monitors account health, builds workflows alongside customers, leads executive and user sessions, and collaborates with Product, Engineering, and Sales to address customer needs and inform product development.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Customer SuccessSales EngineeringData AnalysisSoftware Project ManagementInterpersonal CommunicationsProblem SolvingMachine LearningAPI ManagementCustomer Relationship ManagementProduct Usage AnalysisStakeholder AlignmentROI QuantificationWorkflow DesignWorkshop FacilitationProject PlanningRenewal NegotiationWritten CommunicationVerbal CommunicationPresentation SkillsPrioritizationBusiness Case DevelopmentAI PromptingExcelSQLAI ToolsERP SystemsWMS SystemsTMS SystemsConsultingSupply Chain FundamentalsFinance and AccountingStartup Experience

Qualifications

2+ Years Customer-Facing ExperienceSan Francisco or New York City

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Full job description

About Us Parabola is a workflow builder that makes it easy to organize and transform messy data from anywhere—even PDFs, emails, and spreadsheets—so that forward-thinking teams can automate the work they thought would always be manual. Teams at fast-moving companies like Brooklinen, On Running, and Flexport use Parabola to save hundreds of hours and finally take on the projects that used to feel out of reach. Whether it’s reconciling inventory across multiple 3PLs, auditing invoices, or manually exporting the same report every Monday, Parabola gives teams the power to automate it—all without needing engineering support. Parabola is backed by OpenView Partners, Matrix Partners, Thrive Capital and more.

About the role The Applied AI team at Parabola is the conduit through which our largest and most strategic accounts pass through on their way to unlocking the maximum value from our product. As an Automation Engineer on our Growth team, you will be directly responsible for partnering with key accounts post implementation to ensure value realization continues throughout their lifecycle. Your mission is to drive sustained adoption, expansion of use cases, and measurable business impact across complex organizations. You’ll proactively monitor account usage and engagement signals, identify opportunities to deepen value, and work directly with customers to design and deploy new workflows that solve evolving business challenges. You’ll serve as a trusted partner to both technical and business stakeholders, ranging from the C-Suite to the analyst, for QBRs, workshops and building sessions. You will own customer strategy, technical execution, stakeholder alignment, commercial renewals, and long-term success. You’ll make sure that your portfolio of growing customers continue to see Parabola as a core part of their operations. You’ll lead with data, move fast, and operate comfortably in ambiguity while shaping how we support our most customers. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Sales to solve customer problems and help shape what we build next.

About You You love customers and are naturally curious about how their businesses truly work. You enjoy learning the ins and outs of their organizations, mapping company level goals to functional outcomes, and helping teams leverage automation to accelerate meaningful results. You’re energized by meeting new teams, uncovering new use cases, learning new systems, and turning ideas into deployed, repeatable solutions. Along the way, you naturally build playbooks and best practices that scale across accounts. You’re equally comfortable facilitating strategic conversations with senior leaders and getting your hands dirty technically. You can present confidently to executives, lead collaborative workshops, and seamlessly transition into working with APIs, prompting the latest AI models, and bringing Parabola flows to life. You’re skilled at managing multiple initiatives at once, creating clear project plans, and maintaining momentum in complex customer environments. Above all, you are a trusted advisor that is thoughtful, confident, and personable. You represent Parabola professionally, advocate for the customers you support, and take ownership of ensuring they continue to realize and expand value with our product.

What you'll be doing

  • Own post-implementation relationships for ~15-30 Mid-Market accounts, serving as a trusted advisor from executive sponsors to hands-on operators

  • Monitor and analyze product usage and engagement metrics to assess account health, identify risk, and surface expansion opportunities

  • Partner with customer stakeholders to map organizational goals to functional initiatives and high-impact automation use cases

  • Adapt your approach and be able to effectively context switch across the range of personas we serve, and tailor each conversation to what matters most to them

  • Quantify the value and ROI customers get from Parabola, and build frameworks to measure it consistently across your portfolio

  • Design, build, and deploy new workflows alongside customers, supporting end users through hands-on co-building and technical guidance

  • Lead QBRs, trainings, lunch-and-learns, and workshops

  • Develop and refine repeatable playbooks and best practices to drive sustained adoption across mature accounts

  • Build and maintain plans, timelines, enablement materials, and executive-facing presentations

  • Drive non-upsell renewals from start to close, handling proposals, negotiations, and the contracting process

  • Partner with Account Executives and internal Product/ Engineering teams to identify upsell opportunities, and surface actionable product feedback

What (we think) you'll need to do it

  • 2-5 years of experience in a customer-facing role, such as Technical Account Management, Technical Customer Success, Implementation Consulting, or Sales Engineering

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to quickly build trust and rapport across a wide range of stakeholders

  • Polished presentation and facilitation skills, including comfort presenting to executive audiences

  • Strong prioritization skills so you can focus your time where it will have the greatest impact within your book of business

  • Experienced in quantifying ROI and building business cases that clearly communicate impact and value to executive stakeholders

  • Comfort and familiarity with prompting modern AI models and applying them in real-world business contexts

  • Experience working with data and systems (Excel, SQL, and with APIs)

  • Strong problem-solving skills, with a passion for breaking down complex challenges and designing effective solutions across industries

  • High ownership and intellectual curiosity with the ability to ramp rapidly in new industries, systems, and workflows

  • Based in San Francisco or New York City, with the ability to commute to the office 3–4 days per week

Nice to haves:

  • Previous experience working with AI tools

  • Previous experience working with ERPs, WMSs, TMSs (NetSuite, Uber Freight TMS, Microsoft Business Central, Blue Yonder)

  • Experience working in a project based role - i.e. consulting

  • Knowledge of supply chain fundamentals or finance/accounting

  • Previous experience working in a start up environment

OTE Range: $130,000 - $165,000 This OTE represents the minimum and maximum for this role based in San Francisco and New York. The salary given for this position is dependent on multiple factors, including years of experience, interview performance and anticipated responsibilities of the role. Our base salary is one component of Parabola’s competitive total package, which also includes equity and premium health and wellness benefits.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,372 open Automation Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$130–165K/yr
  • California median$130–180K/yr227 salary ranges
  • US median$104–153K/yr1,335 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $148K, is 4% below the California median midpoint ($153K) — in the middle half of Automation Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 284 open Automation Engineer jobs in California and 2,372 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Automation Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,976 postings).
Education
1,069 of the 2,372 open Automation Engineer jobs (45%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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