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What this posting asks for
Level: Senior — The posting asks for 5 years of experience.
Main responsibilities
- Every team at CookUnity has workflows that could be 10-100x more effective with the right automation. But unlocking that requires someone who can see the opp…
- You'll embed directly with the cross functional AI team as a dedicated AI engineer. Your job isn't to write code faster with AI. It's to fundamentally redesi…
- You'll architect the automated version, build it, and then own it in production: tracking KPIs, managing evals after model changes, and continuously improving.
- This is equal parts business analyst, systems integrator, and engineer. You'll spend as much time interviewing stakeholders and mapping data flows as you wil…
- You'll report to the Head of Applied AI.
- Discover and Design
- Map the team's highest-value workflows end-to-end: structured and unstructured data flows, decision points, handoffs, and bottlenecks.
- Identify where automation can drive step-change outcomes: processing orders of magnitude more inputs, collapsing multi-day processes into hours, or enabling …
- Design the future-state workflow: where an agent acts autonomously, where a deterministic app handles the logic, where humans review, what context is needed,…
- Build the business case. You can articulate why this workflow matters in terms of time saved, revenue impact, or cost reduced.
Competencies an interviewer will look for
- Technical skill Core
In the posting: “Your job isn't to write code faster with AI.” · “You'll spend as much time interviewing stakeholders and mapping data flows as you will writing code.” · “Write clean, maintainable code.”
Show it by: Names the tools, languages or systems used and how; Explains a technical choice and its trade-off. - Communication Core
In the posting: “Monitor performance, track KPIs, and explain outcomes to stakeholders.” · “Communication skills to work cross-functionally.” · “You'll interview stakeholders, present business cases, and explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical leaders.”
Show it by: Adapts the message to the listener; Gives an example of explaining something clearly in writing or speech. - Teamwork and collaboration Core
In the posting: “You'll embed directly with the cross functional AI team as a dedicated AI engineer.” · “Collaboration: Slack, Notion, Google Workspace” · “The values and behaviors that guide how we operate, collaborate, and scale.”
Show it by: Says what they did inside a team, not only what 'we' did; Shows how a disagreement was handled. - Ownership and accountability Core
In the posting: “You'll map existing workflows end-to-end, identify where throwing compute at a task creates step-change value, and then build the solution: sometimes that's …” · “Map the team's highest-value workflows end-to-end: structured and unstructured data flows, decision points, handoffs, and bottlenecks.” · “Design the future-state workflow: where an agent acts autonomously, where a deterministic app handles the logic, where humans review, what context is needed,…”
Show it by: Takes a task from start to finish without being chased; Owns a mistake and what was changed after it. - Leadership and mentoring Core
In the posting: “👩🏾🏫 Personalized Spanish coach” · “We believe great leadership starts with alignment on vision, values, and ways of working.” · “To give you deeper insight into who we are and what we're looking for, we invite you to explore: CookUnity's Leadership Principles .”
Show it by: Describes setting direction or a standard others followed; Names someone they coached and what changed for them. - Data and analysis Core
In the posting: “You'll architect the automated version, build it, and then own it in production: tracking KPIs, managing evals after model changes, and continuously improving.” · “This is equal parts business analyst, systems integrator, and engineer.” · “You'll spend as much time interviewing stakeholders and mapping data flows as you will writing code.”
Show it by: Uses a number to describe the situation or the result; Explains what the data showed and what was done with it. - Attention to detail and quality Core
In the posting: “You'll use AI tools to move fast, but you own the quality of what ships.” · “Manage evals and regression testing after model updates, prompt changes, or upstream data shifts.” · “You understand git, version control workflows, and basic security and safety practices when deploying AI into production environments.”
Show it by: Gives an example of an error caught before it caused harm; Names the check or standard they used. - Stakeholder management Core
In the posting: “You'll spend as much time interviewing stakeholders and mapping data flows as you will writing code.” · “Monitor performance, track KPIs, and explain outcomes to stakeholders.” · “You'll interview stakeholders, present business cases, and explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical leaders.”
Show it by: Shows how they aligned people with different goals; Explains how they handled a 'no' from someone senior. - Planning and organisation Supporting
In the posting: “🌅 401k Plan”
Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how. - Adaptability and learning Supporting
In the posting: “Use your judgment on the right tool for the job: agentic workflows when tasks require reasoning and flexibility, deterministic apps and scripts when the logi…”
Show it by: Describes learning something new quickly and using it; Shows a change of plan and how they adjusted.
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Practice questions
- Tell me about yourself. Dedicated step-by-step practice.
- If an interviewer asks something improper How to respond to questions about age, family, origin or health.
- Built from this posting (8):
- Walk me through a piece of work where you used your strongest technical skill. What exactly did you do? From this posting
- Tell me about a time you had to explain something complex to someone outside your field. From this posting
- Describe a time you worked with another team to deliver something. What was your part? From this posting
- Tell me about a task you took from start to finish without anyone asking you to. From this posting
- How have you used python in your work? Walk me through one real example. From this posting
- Tell me about a problem you solved using writing. From this posting
- Tell me about a time you helped someone on your team get better at their work. From this posting
- You have three urgent tasks due today and time to finish only two. How do you decide? From this posting
- This posting reads as Finance & accounting: its questions come first.
- Tell me about a time you found an error in a financial report or reconciliation. Finance & accounting
- Walk me through how you build a budget or forecast. Finance & accounting
- It is the last day of month-end close and a balance will not tie out. What do you do? Finance & accounting
- Describe a time you explained a financial result to a manager outside finance. Finance & accounting
- How do you make sure your work holds up in an audit? Finance & accounting
- Tell me about an analysis that saved money or found revenue. Finance & accounting
- Three urgent requests arrive during close. How do you decide the order? Finance & accounting
- Describe a finance process you made faster or more reliable. Finance & accounting
- Walk me through how you would check whether a report's numbers are right.
- Describe a time you handled an upset customer or colleague.
- Tell me about a time you had several deadlines at once. How did you decide what to do first?
- Give an example of a mistake you caught before it caused a problem.
- Tell me about a time you taught someone how to do something.
- Describe a time you took the lead without being asked.
- Tell me about a time you had to explain something complicated in simple terms.
- Describe a process you improved.
- Do you have any questions for us?
- Why do you want to work here?
- Why is there a gap in your employment? Difficult question
- Why did you leave your last job? Difficult question
- Why are you changing careers? Difficult question
- What is your greatest weakness? Difficult question
- What are your salary expectations? Difficult question
- You seem overqualified for this role. Why do you want it? Difficult question
- Improper-question practice: How old are you? / Do you have children? / Where are you from originally?
- A customer is angry about a delay you did not cause. What do you do?
- How do you keep track of many open customer requests?
- Tell me about a time you could not give a customer what they wanted.
- You find that the inventory count does not match the system. What do you do?
- Tell me about a time a shipment or delivery went wrong.
- How do you make sure safety rules are followed on a busy shift?
- Two managers ask you to book the same room at the same time. What do you do?
- How have you used spreadsheets in your work?
- Tell me about a time you had to enter or check a lot of data accurately.
- Tell me about a sale or agreement you are proud of.
- A prospect says your price is too high. How do you respond?
- How do you keep your pipeline organised?
- Tell me about a technical problem you solved on your own.
- You find a bug right before a release. What do you do?

