AI Automation Internship

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Who We Are

Single Grain is an award winning digital marketing agency that partners with innovators like Amazon, Uber, and Salesforce. We drive persistent growth through Paid Media, SEO, Content Marketing—and now cutting edge AI automation. Our mission is to level up every human by moving the marketing industry forward.

Who You Are

As an AI Automation Intern, you transform high leverage ideas into working agentic workflows that save time or generate revenue for our teams and clients.

You:

• Live and breathe AI—new models, forums, and tools are your nightly reading.
• Own outcomes—you see a bottleneck and build a bot before anyone asks.
• Iterate fast—you prototype, ship, measure, and aren’t afraid to scrap v1.
• Are unreasonably resilient—auth errors and broken APIs don’t faze you.
• Make bold, long term bets—you test ambitiously and document everything.

Mission

Build and ship agentic AI automations that create measurable leverage for Single Grain and its clients by eliminating repetitive work and unlocking new revenue opportunities.

Problem to Be Solved

We lack a standardized library of AI workflows that reliably save time or generate revenue at scale.

Key Outcomes (by Day 90)

1. Ship 3 internal automations that each save ≥20 hours per month or 3 client facing automations adopted by ≥5 paying accounts.

2. Publish SOPs and Loom walkthroughs for every automation in the central playbook.

3. Implement telemetry proving hours saved or revenue generated.

4. Present a “lessons learned” demo and forward roadmap to the executive team.

Core Responsibilities

• Opportunity sourcing with CTO/CEO to prioritize high impact automations.
• Design, prompt engineer, and prototype flows in Zapier Agents, n8n, Make.com, Lindy.ai, or custom Python/LangChain scripts.
• Test, debug, and harden automations for production use.
• Record Loom walkthroughs, write SOPs, and maintain the knowledge base.
• Track ROI and report progress weekly.

Requirements

• Junior or Senior pursuing any bachelor’s degree with evidence of hands on AI projects.
• Proficiency with Zapier Agents, n8n, or Make.com.
• Bonus: coding ability (Python or JavaScript) and vector DB experience.
• Able to commute to Westwood / Los Angeles office 2–3 days per week.
• Available 20 hours per week for 12 weeks (summer); paid $20/hour

Behavioral Competencies

• Relentless learner
• Proactive ownership
• Resilient problem solver
• Clear communicator

Values Competencies

• Improvement obsessed
• Unimpeachable character
• Own wins and losses
• Tenacity and hunger
• Humble, hungry, smart

Scorecard Snapshot

Role: AI Automation Intern

Mission: Build and ship agentic workflows that create ≥60 hours/month total savings or onboard ≥5.

Key 90-Day Outcomes:
• 3 automations shipped & adopted
• SOP + Loom created for each
• Telemetry proving ≥20 hours saved

Core Competencies:
• AI-obsessed learner
• Proactive ownership
• Bold experimentation
• Resilience

Benefits

• Gain hands-on experience in the fast-growing field of AI automation and workflow optimization.
• Work alongside experienced professionals on real-world automation projects.
• Flexible remote work setup with room for learning and growth.
• Receive mentorship and support from experts in AI tools, no-code/low-code platforms, and process automation.
• Build foundational skills that can lead to future opportunities within the company.