
Lingaro Group · Philippines
As AI Ops Technical Leader, you drive the intelligent transformation of operations support. This player-coach role combines hands-on technical delivery, team le...
As AI Ops Technical Leader, you drive the intelligent transformation of operations support. This player-coach role combines hands-on technical delivery, team leadership, and AI architecture governance to achieve operational excellence. You apply deep technical expertise and strategic leadership to design, build, and evolve AI and data solutions that improve incident management, major incident response, problem management, change enablement, service desk support, observability, and overall operational resilience.
Hands-on Data & AI Solutions for Operations Support
AIOps Tools & Platform Leadership
AI Technical Leadership for Operations Support Initiatives
Team & People Leadership
Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Collaboration
THE ROLE: BUILDING THE ENGINE FOR AI TRANSFORMATION Smartly’s Operations culture is evolving. We are building an intelligent, automated ecosystem that powers our entire global organization. As a Senior Solutions Engineer, you will be the primary technical partner for our AI Transformation team. While they identify strategic AI opportunities, you are responsible for the execution—building the connectors, agents, and interfaces that allow our internal teams to leverage AI in their daily work. You will serve as a bridge between technical solutions and operational excellence. Your core responsibility involves identifying areas of inefficiency and disjointed processes ("silos") and resolving them by developing intelligent workflows, scalable internal tools, and effective code to ensure smooth, integrated operations. We are looking for a "builder" who thrives on independence and is obsessed with the "How can we do this better?" mindset. AS A SENIOR SOLUTIONS ENGINEER AT SMARTLY, YOU WILL... * Partner with AI Transformation team: Collaborate with the AI Transformation team to productize AI and automation prototypes, ensuring that new tools and agentic capabilities are successfully integrated into internal business processes. * Orchestrate Internal Automations: Build and maintain a wide variety of internal tools and workflows for most teams across the company; these solutions range from traditional API-based automations to complex AI agentic workflows. * Modernize Internal Systems: Develop and scale the internal tools and processes that enable teams to move faster, utilizing a blend of AI-driven agents and standard programmatic automations to solve operational needs. * Own the Backend: Maintain and expand our internal microservices architecture, primarily running on TypeScript and NodeJS. * Cloud Infrastructure Management: Independently manage and optimize our cloud infrastructure (we primarily use Google Cloud Platform), ensuring our internal tools and AI services are performant, secure, and scalable. * Build Service Integrations: Act as the master of APIs, integrating disparate internal and external services (Salesforce, Slack, Big Query, data warehouse etc.) to create seamless data flows for both users and AI agents. WE’RE DEFINITELY LOOKING FOR YOU IF YOU HAVE... * Innovative & Experimental Mindset: You are naturally curious and enjoy experimenting with new technologies. Our work involves frequent exploration of emerging tech stacks and AI libraries, so you should be comfortable navigating ambiguity and testing new tools. * A Builder’s Background: A versatile technical background with exposure in Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or Artificial Intelligence—with a strong track record of building diverse technical solutions, internal automations, and scalable data pipelines. * TypeScript/NodeJS Mastery: Strong proficiency in TypeScript and NodeJS (Koa/Express experience is a major plus). * AI Implementation Experience: Proven experience building and maintaining AI agentic workflows or MCPs. You know how to leverage LLM APIs (Vertex AI/OpenAI) to build practical, task-oriented agents. * Prompt Engineering: You have a deep understanding of prompt engineering techniques to produce high-quality, structured, and reliable outputs from LLMs. You can design, test, and iterate on prompts for complex agentic tasks. * API Expertise: High familiarity with REST APIs and complex service-to-service integrations. * Self-Driven Learning: The ability to dive into microservices, understand its logic, and implement modern solutions without constant supervision. * Collaborative Mindset: The ability to translate needs from most internal teams into technical requirements that solve real-world problems for non-technical stakeholders. BONUS POINTS FOR: * Automation Platforms: Experience with workflow automation tools like Zapier, n8n, or similar platforms used to build and orchestrate agentic workflows. * React Skills: Ability to build or tweak frontend admin dashboards to make your automations accessible to internal users. * AdTech Background: Familiarity with Meta GraphAPI, TikTok Ads, or Google Ads APIs. ABOUT SMARTLY Smartly is the AI-powered advertising technology company transforming ad experiences for brands and their consumers. Our comprehensive advertising platform seamlessly integrates the capabilities of media, creative, and intelligence to power more than 800 billion impressions and generate more than 300 billion creatives annually, delivering tangible business outcomes for brands and advertisers. Smartly is the only company in the industry recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Creative Advertising Technologies with PwC validating the results it delivers for brands. We manage creative and media for 700+ brands worldwide and $6B in ad spend across the largest media platforms, including Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok. Our end-to-end technology, unmatched access to media platforms and exceptional customer service help Fortune 500 brands to reach and engage consumers and learn what performs best.Smartly is a multinational and diverse team of 750+ Smartlies from 60+ nationalities, working in 13 countries. Together, we want to create and maintain an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and heard. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion approach is at the heart of it. Visit Smartly to learn more. The processing of your information is described in our Candidate Privacy Notice.
As a Technical Support Specialist II, you are the first line of defence in solving customer problems for Smartly products. You'll become a part of an internal Support Operations team, working with some of the largest and most sophisticated online performance marketers globally. In addition, you’ll be a vital component in ensuring outstanding service to our customers. This role comes with great responsibility and requires a variety of skills: you’ll serve as a crucial link, translator and communicator between customers and our equally extraordinary product development team. Ideally, you love solving new problems and thrive in situations where there are several unknowns. Your heart beats for the customer and serves them with understanding and care. You will have the opportunity to work closely with the Engineering team that develops our web application, Customer teams that serve our clients, and directly with end customers through our 24/7 in-app support chat. Your major responsibility will be making sure that the problems you address will not resurface. As a result, you’ll make the customer’s life easier as well as improve our core product. None of your days will be quite alike – exciting times guaranteed! AS A TECHNICAL SUPPORT SPECIALIST II, AT SMARTLY, YOU WILL... * Ensure Smartly is recognized globally for best-in-class customer service. * Provide timely and effective support for all technical inquiries related to the Smartly platform. * Serve as the first point of contact for all customer queries related to Smartly. * Work toward developing a working knowledge of Facebook’s Marketing API as part of day-to-day support responsibilities * Build and maintain a working knowledge of other major Marketing APIs (Snapchat, Google, TikTok, Pinterest) as Smartly continues expanding across channels. * Engage with the technological challenges of the world’s largest online advertisers. * Support product launches, including participation in Alpha and Beta programs and ensuring feedback is surfaced to Product teams * Swiftly troubleshoot and resolve customer issues, including performance concerns and product bugs * Collaborate with colleagues globally at all levels across the organization to gather information and resolve issues effectively. * Reproduce, analyze, prioritize, and document bugs in the platform. * Contribute to the improvement of internal and external documentation and promote customer education. * Actively feed customer insights and pain points back to the product team to help shape product development. * Thrive in a flat organizational structure, working alongside a team of smart, kind, and driven peer WE'RE DEFINITELY LOOKING FOR YOU, IF YOU HAVE... * Willingness to work late APAC/early EMEA and amenable to working weekend on-call shifts when needed * Confident, independent and self-driven * A genuine curiosity about online marketing, willingness to push yourself to exceed your goals, and an ability to learn new things quickly. * Passion for technology, very quick to learn new tools and able to independently learn and investigate complex customer queries * 2-3 years technical support experience in a customer facing role, preferably with SAAS technology. Experience in ad tech, online marketing industry highly desirable * Strong analytical skills with a proven ability to evaluate, troubleshoot, and follow through on customer issues—replicating and documenting them for escalation when necessary. * Good to have a basic understanding of JSON and SQL, along with some experience reviewing logs to support troubleshooting. * Familiarity with concepts like databases, HTTP fundamentals, REST APIs, and MVC architecture is a plus * Experience with Intercom or similar preferred * Fluent spoken and written English, and a strong communicator ABOUT SMARTLY Smartly is the AI-powered advertising technology company transforming ad experiences for brands and their consumers. Our comprehensive advertising platform seamlessly integrates the capabilities of media, creative, and intelligence to power more than 800 billion impressions and generate more than 300 billion creatives annually, delivering tangible business outcomes for brands and advertisers. Smartly is the only company in the industry recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Creative Advertising Technologies with PwC validating the results it delivers for brands. We manage creative and media for 700+ brands worldwide and $6B in ad spend across the largest media platforms, including Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok. Our end-to-end technology, unmatched access to media platforms and exceptional customer service help Fortune 500 brands to reach and engage consumers and learn what performs best.Smartly is a multinational and diverse team of 750+ Smartlies from 60+ nationalities, working in 13 countries. Together, we want to create and maintain an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and heard. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion approach is at the heart of it. Visit Smartly to learn more. The processing of your information is described in our Candidate Privacy Notice.
Job Summary: We are looking for an experienced Al Ops Tech Leader — Operations Support to lead the intelligent transformation of our operations support functions. This senior technical leadership role combines deep hands-on contribution to data & Al solutions that directly enhance operations support processes with strategic leadership in developing AIOps tools/platforms and driving Al technical direction for all operations support initiatives. The role is explicitly centered on operations support domains — including incident management, major incident response, problem management, change enablement, service desk / Level 1—3 support, monitoring & observability, service reliability, and operational resilience. You will remain actively involved (-40—50%) in delivering technical support in data solutions that solve real operations support pain points, while leading the design, build, and evolution of AIOps tooling and serving as the principal Al technical authority for operations support transformation programs. This is a player-coach position in the operations support space: hands-on technical delivery + team leadership + Al architecture governance for operational excellence. Key Responsibilities Hands-on Data & Al Solutions for Operations Support • Actively lead and contribute to high-impact data/AI projects that directly improve operations support outcomes — e.g., real-time incident enrichment, predictive alerting, automated root-cause analysis, change risk scoring, ticket clustering & autotriage, knowledge mining for support agents, and intelligent runbooks. • Design and deliver scalable features embedded into operations support workflows and platforms (ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, monitoring tools, ITSM systems, etc.) in collaboration with multidisciplinary competency teams. • Ensure solutions meet strict operations support SLAs for reliability, low latency, auditability, explainability, and zero-downtime deployment. • Up-to-date with innovations and research in AIOPS Tools AIOps Tools & Platform Leadership for Operations Support • Lead the architecture, development, and continuous enhancement of internal AIOps platforms and reusable components that power operations support teams — including integration with ITSM, observability (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK/Dynatrace/Splunk), ticketing, and automation tooling. • Support MLOps/AlOps best practices specifically for production operations support Al systems: model monitoring in live ops environments, drift & performance degradation detection, rollback mechanisms, and cost control at operational scale. Al Technical Leadership for Operations Support Initiatives • Serve as the lead Al technical authority and trusted advisor for all operations support programs, automation movements, and Al transformation efforts across service operations, NOC, support desks, infrastructure operations, and reliability engineering. • Lead technical discussions, architecture reviews, PoCs, vendor evaluations, and solution selection whenever Al is being considered or applied to operations support challenges. • Identify, prioritize, and drive the highest-ROI Al use cases in operations support — e.g., reducing MTTR/MTTD, automating Level 1 triage, predicting PI incidents, autogenerating post-mortems, optimizing shift handovers, and enabling proactive operations support. Team & People Leadership • Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing squad of AIOps specialists focused on operations support outcomes. • Foster a culture of rapid experimentation, production-first mindset, and relentless focus on operational impact (reduced toil, faster resolution, higher availability). • Perform technical coaching, design/code reviews, and career development with emphasis on operations support domain knowledge. Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Collaboration • Partner intensively with operations support leaders, incident managers, service owners, reliability engineers, ITSM/process teams, and infrastructure groups to align Al initiatives with operational priorities and pain points. • Strong collaboration with DS&AI Competency. Qualifications & Experience Required • 10+ years in data engineering, Al/ML engineering, or operations support technology roles, with 4—6+ years in technical leadership positions within operations support / IT operations / service operations environments. • Proven track record delivering production Al/ML/data solutions that measurably improved operations support KPIs (MTT R, MTT D, ticket deflection, toil reduction, availability). • Strong hands-on expertise with modern data/AI stacks (Python, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, cloud data platforms, PyTorch/TensorFlow, LLM frameworks) and integration into operations support ecosystems (ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Splunk, Datadog, Moogsoft, BigPanda, etc.)., Databricks, Azure/ADF. • Deep practical experience with AIOps patterns in live operations support settings: event correlation, anomaly detection, automated actions, predictive analytics, GenAI for ops. • Experience leading development or significant enhancement of AIOps/internaI tooling platforms specifically for operations support teams. Preferred • Background in ITIL-aligned operations support processes (incident, problem, change, service request, knowledge management). • Hands-on work with GenAl/LLM applications in operations support (ops copilots, auto-remediation agents, intelligent knowledge search, summarization of alerts/incidents). • Prior success scaling AIOps capabilities in large-scale operations support / NOC / shared service environments. Leadership & Soft Skills • Ability to stay deeply technical while leading people and strategy in a high-velocity operations support context. • Excellent communication — can explain complex Al concepts to operations support practitioners and translate operational pain into technical roadmaps for executives. • Strong bias for action, production impact, and reducing operational toil through intelligent automation.