Operations and Automation Specialist

About Buffer

We create social media and brand-building software for small businesses, creators, and individuals. Our mission is to provide essential tools to help small businesses get off the ground and grow. Through exceptional customer service and uplifting content, we help our customers believe they can succeed and do good along the way.

Buffer is a fully distributed team, and we’ve always aimed to do things a little differently at Buffer. Since the early days, we’ve focused on building one of the most unique and fulfilling workplaces by rethinking a lot of traditional practices. We also default to transparency, so you can read all about our metrics, and our successes and failures along the way on our.

We're united by Buffer's, and we hire and work from all over the world. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive work environment, and we are building a culture where underrepresented groups are welcome and can flourish. Please note that we do travel to work together in person once or twice per year, and those events are highly encouraged to build deeper connections among our small team.

As you get to know Buffer and consider joining the journey, feel free to read more from and as they share their first experiences with Buffer, as well as from, who captured why she still calls Buffer home after 8+ years.

About the role

Buffer is a fully distributed company, spread out across many continents and timezones. We have big ambitions for Buffer, which are captured in a cascading set of separate but overlapping strategic themes, company initiatives, projects, and tasks. We believe in radical transparency, so we prioritize documentation and context both internally and externally. Like most growing SaaS companies, we operate across a range of tools and systems, with varying levels of access and ownership.

As a 15-year-old company that continues to evolve, we’re actively refining how we work. And lately, we have a focus on integrating AI to operate more effectively.

So, we are looking for a systems-minded operator and builder to work cross-functionally across Buffer and help improve how communication flows, how decisions are surfaced, owned, and documented, how context is shared, how we approach tooling and IT, and how we adapt as AI transforms how we work.

As we grow, and as AI reshapes the nature of work, we see an opportunity to:

• Remove friction from daily work
• Use automation and AI thoughtfully
• Build operating systems that help scale our level of transparency, trust, and care.

Reporting into the People team, this role will own and strengthen our company operating system as a remote, global team, and help Buffer shape a calmer, clearer way of working by reducing complexity as we build for and serve our customers.

What you'll own

• Team-wide communication flow and documentation. Improve how our tools and rituals work together, including project management in Linear, internal communication in Slack, and company-wide touchpoints like All Hands and our weekly newsletter, to create clearer alignment and shared context.
• Information Architecture. Own and improve our Notion space, balancing a combination of swiftly changing internal reference material, historical documentation, and a transparent company handbook.
• Tooling. Take a bird's eye view of our tools to streamline systems across Finance (renewals and budgeting), and IT and Security (provisioning and deprovisioning, and permissions and access). Manage the gradual but constant evolution of our tools stack by helping us optimize the tools we're using, explore and suggest new solutions, and offboard as needed.
• People Data. Develop thoughtful tracking and reporting to increase visibility into People topics such as benefits usage, time off, performance and promotions, diversity, and tenure, as well as operational health indicators like strategic alignment, decision velocity, team sustainability, and overall effectiveness.
• Automation and AI adoptions. Support exploration and adoption of AI tools and automation to improve communication, information access, and pace of decision-making and execution.

Helpful skills and experience

• A love of tinkering. You are an early adopter of AI and automation tools and use them as a core part of how you work. You have hands-on examples of building and shipping practical solutions using platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, Zapier, Make, n8n, Retool, or similar tools. Whether automating workflows, connecting systems, or prototyping internal tools, you turn ideas into working solutions. You may not come from a traditional technical background, but you are technically confident, highly resourceful,