[Hiring] Staff AI Operations Lead @Honeycomb.io

Role Description

Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future, defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do! This role exists to get us past the demo stage, everywhere outside of engineering.

• Ship automated workflows end to end.
• Partner with department leaders to identify the highest-leverage workflows.
• Define success before you build: cycle time, quality, cost, risk.
• Deliver working systems, not prototypes.
• Iterate on adoption like a product manager.
• Establish patterns for model access, orchestration, and agents.
• Build on the Data team's existing infrastructure.
• Create templates, playbooks, and golden paths.
• Run office hours, demos, and community-of-practice sessions.
• Partner with Security, IT, and Legal on access control and data handling.

Qualifications

• Deep experience shipping systems into real business workflows.
• Hands-on fluency with modern AI stacks.
• The ability to learn someone else's job well enough to improve it.
• A track record of leading cross-functional initiatives.
• Comfort navigating security, privacy, and compliance tradeoffs.
• Strong teaching instincts.
• Demonstrated ability to stay current as the landscape shifts.

Requirements

• SQL fluency and comfort in a modern data stack.
• Experience with workflow automation or enterprise systems.
• Familiarity with observability practices for AI systems.
• Change management experience across a distributed, multi-function company.
• Interest in external evangelism.

Benefits

• A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program.
• Time to recharge with unlimited PTO.
• A distributed-first mindset and culture.
• Home office, co-working, and internet stipend.
• Full benefits coverage for employees, with additional coverage available for dependents.
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Annual development allowance.
• And much more...