Summer 2026
AI Automation Engineer Co-op
Posted on 6/24/2026
Later
1,001-5,000 employees
Social media management and influencer marketing
Compensation Overview
$23.08/hr
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Remote
Remote within Canada; must be eligible to work in Canada.
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- Currently enrolled in a Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or related program, or equivalent practical experience.
- Some experience building with code (Python, JavaScript, C# or similar) and comfort picking up new tools quickly.
- Curiosity about AI and automation: you've experimented with LLMs, prompt design, or no-code tools and want to go deeper.
- A bias toward action: you'd rather ship something imperfect and learn from it than wait for a perfect plan.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, you can explain a technical idea to someone who doesn't code.
- Comfort with ambiguity: you can make progress on a loosely defined problem without needing every detail up front.
- Familiarity with APIs, scripting, or automation tools (Zapier, Make, n8n, or similar) is a bonus.
- Any experience with data: pulling it, cleaning it, and reasoning about what it means, is a plus.
- Shadow and interview non-technical stakeholders across Operations, Finance, Marketing, and Customer Success to understand their day-to-day workflows.
- Help identify repetitive, manual tasks that are strong candidates for automation.
- Contribute to translating fuzzy workflow problems into clear, scoped technical solutions with guidance from the team.
- Build working automations and internal tools using AI-native platforms, APIs, and no-code and low-code tools.
- Ship v1 prototypes quickly so stakeholders can validate value before investment grows.
- Wire together LLMs, agents, and prompt design patterns with existing systems to deliver real workflow outcomes.
- Iterate on automations based on stakeholder feedback and real-world use.
- Write clear documentation so automations can run unattended and teammates can understand what was built.
- Contribute to error handling and basic monitoring so automations recover gracefully.
- Help maintain a library of reusable templates, prompt patterns, and integration examples.
- Support working sessions and lightweight training that helps non-technical colleagues understand and use the automations you build.
- Collaborate with engineers, operations teammates, and other stakeholders to deliver solutions that work in practice.
- Share what you learn openly, contributing to Later's growing citizen-developer community.
Later offers a suite of social media tools for marketers, brands, and influencers, including Later Social Media Management, Later Influence, and Later Link in Bio. It works by providing planning, scheduling, and analysis for posts; automating influencer campaigns with ROI tracking; and routing traffic from a single bio link to multiple destinations, all through subscription plans. It differentiates itself by combining influencer marketing, social media management, and link optimization with real-time ROI insights and expert services for large brands. Its goal is to help marketers achieve predictable, measurable returns from social media and build the first Social Revenue platform.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$3.8M
Headquarters
Vancouver, Canada
Founded
2014
Your Connections
People at Later who can refer or advise you
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Enterprise growth exceeded 100% year over year in Q1 2026.
- Mavely expands creator commerce and shoppable payout infrastructure.
- Later serves major brands including Nike, Southwest Airlines, Wayfair, and Unilever.
What critics are saying
- TikTok Shop and Instagram native tools compress Later Influence differentiation.
- Google and Bing answer engines weaken Creator AEO's strategic importance.
- Enterprise concentration around large brands increases churn sensitivity and revenue volatility.
What makes Later unique
- Later unifies social management, influencer marketing, and link-in-bio tools.
- Later 360 provides unified reporting across organic, paid, and commerce outcomes.
- Creator AEO targets visibility in AI-powered search and recommendation surfaces.
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Benefits
Hybrid work environment
Education & conference budget
Wellness spending account
Flexible hours & work schedule
Technology bonus
Annual company retreat
Vacation & wellness days
Parental leave top-up
Learning & development workshops
Stock options
Company News
Later, an influencer marketing platform, has reported over 100% year-over-year growth in enterprise business for Q1 2026. The company now powers $2.9 billion in verified influencer-driven purchases and has delivered more than $250 million in cumulative creator payouts. Global brands including Nike, Southwest Airlines, Wayfair and Unilever are using Later's platform to manage creator programmes at scale. The company attributes its growth to brands consolidating their creator and social programmes around data-driven, performance-focused solutions. Later appointed Mohsin Hussain as chief technology officer, effective 1 April 2026. Hussain joins from LiveRamp, where he served as CTO. He will accelerate innovation behind Later EdgeAI, the company's AI-enabled technology that helped marketers manage 70% more creators per campaign and achieve 40% higher engagement last year.
Later, an influencer marketing platform, has appointed Paige Kelly as General Manager, Creator. She will lead the growth of Later's creator community and strengthen connections between the company's enterprise clients and hundreds of thousands of creators. Kelly joins from Wayfair, where she spent 14 years helping scale the company from 400 to over 12,000 employees, including through its 2014 public offering. She most recently headed Wayfair's housewares vertical, global supplier acquisition and branded product strategy. At Later, Kelly will expand creator resources, accelerate campaign opportunities and deepen community engagement. The company has been hosting creator meetups across major US cities including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Later's platform leverages over a decade of proprietary data and has facilitated $2.4 billion in verified influencer-driven purchases.
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