AI Automation & Architecture Lead
Kogan.com is Australia's largest pure-play online retailer, a publicly listed, high-scale eCommerce platform serving millions of customers.
This is a fully remote role open to US-based candidates. You'll be expected to visit our Melbourne HQ a few times a year to collaborate in person with the team. Flights and accommodation covered. Melbourne consistently ranks among the world's most liveable cities and is famous for its food, coffee culture, and tech scene.
In this role, you get focused remote work from home plus genuine in-person time with a sharp, tight-knit team building real things at scale. If you fall in love with the city after your visits and want to relocate, we're open to that conversation, including visa sponsorship for the right person.
This is not a standard AI role.
Are you an AI visionary who can vibe code at the speed of thought? Do you live and breathe autonomous agents, process optimization, and the bleeding edge of LLM capabilities?
At Kogan.com, we are looking for an elite AI specialist to become our internal evangelist and lead our artificial intelligence transformation. Reporting directly to the CEO and CTO, you will have a unique mandate: work on top-priority special projects at the executive level, while simultaneously partnering with every department across the business to ruthlessly optimise our operations.
We aren't just looking for someone who can write ChatGPT prompts. We need an architect who can deploy highly autonomous "God-Mode" agents (like OpenClaw, OpenHands, N8N and CrewAI) securely within a massive e-commerce infrastructure. If you know how to build multi-agent swarms, implement strict security sandboxes, and want to shape the future of Australia's leading retail pioneer, we want you on the team.
What you’ll be doing:
Serving as Kogan.com’s AI Evangelist, driving adoption and innovation across the entire organization.
Working one-on-one with the CEO/CTO on high-impact, special projects to give us an unfair competitive advantage.
Rapidly prototyping and deploying production-ready software using AI-assisted "vibe coding."
Architecting and deploying autonomous agents (OpenClaw, OpenHands, LangGraph) to automate complex workflows in supply chain, marketing, and customer service.
Designing Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) workflows to ensure AI bots have appropriate guardrails and approval gates before executing high-stakes production tasks.
Connecting AI agents securely to our e-commerce stack, ERPs, CRM, and internal databases.
What you'll need:
Strong foundation in computer science, systems architecture, and API integrations.
Proven experience with the absolute latest AI automation tools, multi-agent frameworks, and advanced workflow builders (n8n, Make.com).
Deep understanding of AI security protocols, containerization (Docker), and permission allowlists to protect enterprise data from prompt injections and rogue agent behavior.
Strong commercial awareness of LLM API costs to prevent resource drain and optimize token usage.
A relentless passion for AI and a habit of staying three steps ahead of industry trends.
Apply now and help us build the future of retail.
Why Kogan.com:
You will have direct access to executive decision-making, real scale, and the freedom to build.
This is an opportunity to define how AI is actually used inside one of Australia’s leading digital retailers, not just experiment on the sidelines.
Our culture is unlike anywhere else and regardless of where you are in your career journey, we empower you to do your best work and have a big impact. Check out https://devblog.kogan.com/ and https://goodteams.app/engineering/kogan.com.
Work with an incredible team to solve important challenges, helping to drive Australia and New Zealand’s eCommerce future.
Your role has a lot of ownership, autonomy and little red tape. You’ll be empowered to achieve positive outcomes and your work will have a real impact.
You’ll be at the forefront of the eCommerce industry and be part of a company that are the Pioneers of eCommerce in Australia.
Be an Intrepreneur, playing a hands on role in shaping our strategy at our HQ.
A range of employee benefits such as; Meaningful Learning budget. Complimentary Kogan First Membership, team exclusive discounts, Health & Wellness program, Learning & Development and Lunch & Learns, Hackathons, Team member referral program, Company and team events and celebrations, community engagement (volunteering) and extensive career development opportunities plus loads more!
About Us:
AI-enabled. Human-driven. Shipping smarter every day.
Kogan.com is a pioneer of Australian eCommerce. Our vision is to use and build technology to deliver personalised, innovative and fast customer experiences. We are pragmatic in our solutions, scalable in our architecture, strong on quality and not afraid to fail fast.
As a team, we are empowered to make change, share our views and build each other’s capability. We see where AI is heading and we are building towards it. We keep testing, learning and embedding new capabilities into our stack where they add value. It supports our engineers to move faster, make better decisions and focus on solving the right problems, increasing their impact. The software we build, including www.kogan.com, is used by millions of customers, so this role has real impact. You will be a key member of a fast paced, independent and ambitious team, working across the full tech stack. We believe in using and building technology to improve the online shopping experience, and we are driven by seeing our software shipped to production every day.