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WorkflowArchitect
Space (sp-ce.co) · Remote · Full-time
TL;DR
- —Space, an AI-native brand agency, is hiring a Workflow Architect to own the 362 agentic workflows that run the company, and to decide what earns the right to become number 363.
- —Machines calcify process faster than any bureaucracy because they never get annoyed; this role is the productive annoyance.
- —The job is walking real timelines, separating thinking from waiting, deleting the waiting, and redesigning workstreams end to end across humans and agents.
- —Level 5 on Space's published AI Fluency Ladder is the floor: this seat is what Level 5 looks like as a full-time job.
- —Applying is three questions in a short form: one piece you shipped and now hate, the best idea you ever cut, and one thing in culture that makes you jealous.
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About Space
Space is an AI-native brand agency. Three always-on leaders, 82 on-demand specialists, zero juniors. 127 agents, 362 agentic workflows, 14 tools we built ourselves. We ship brand identities, websites, campaigns, and products for funded companies in weeks: Validere got strategy, a full rebrand, and a new site in 8 weeks, lifted inbound 31%, and closed a $43M Series B on the story. We grow entirely by word of mouth, and we publish our AI rules, our hiring bar, and our pricing logic at sp-ce.co/notes, because an agency that won't tell you where AI stops is telling you it doesn't know.
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The job
Our agents execute the 362 workflows exactly as designed, forever, including the three steps that only exist because of how we did things in March. Machines calcify process faster than any bureaucracy, because they never get annoyed. Getting annoyed, productively, is this job.
Every operations role in history has been graded on what it added: the process, the framework, the certification, the meeting. You'll be graded on what stops existing. Our 8-week sprints happened because someone walked the old agency timeline and found it was mostly waiting: for approvals, for handoffs, for Thursday's status meeting to unblock Tuesday's question. We deleted the waiting once. Your job is deleting it forever, across 362 workflows that mix humans and agents, while the models underneath improve monthly and quietly obsolete last quarter's cleverest design.
One of our first principles is "build scalable systems": solve it twice, then teach a machine to solve it forever. You're the person that principle reports to.
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What you'll do
Walk every sprint's real timeline and separate thinking from waiting. Protect the first. Delete the second.
Redesign workstreams end to end across humans and agents, which is Level 5 on our fluency ladder turned into a full-time seat.
Decide what earns the right to become workflow 363. Most candidates shouldn't, and you'll say why in writing.
Retire workflows the way the Agent Wrangler retires agents: on the record, with the reason.
Instrument the handoffs, because that's where quality slips quietly: human to agent, agent to agent, agent back to human.
Turn every redesign into a skill that compounds, so the company never solves the same problem twice.
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What you won't do
Add a process to fix a process. Subtraction first, always.
Run change management theater. No steering committees, no rollout decks, no town halls. You ship the new way, and the old way stops existing.
Certify anything. Frameworks are borrowed taste for operations; here the timeline is the argument.
Manage juniors. There are none. Nobody learns the craft on a client's budget here.
Sit in status meetings, log timesheets, or build spec work for pitches. Your predecessor systems already retired all three, and you'll retire their successors.
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Who you are
Level 5 on our published AI Fluency Ladder: you don't adopt tools, you redesign the workstream around them.
A veteran of real delivery: you've been the producer, the ops lead, or the engineer who watched a beautiful process strangle a fast team, and it still bothers you.
A subtractor with receipts: meetings you ended, steps you deleted, timelines you halved, and the numbers that followed.
A systems writer. Your workflows survive your vacation because they're documented like you mean it.
Honest about humans. The best workflow bends around how people actually behave on a Tuesday, and you design for that Tuesday.
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Who you aren't
A process romantic. If the ritual is the deliverable, you're at the wrong shop.
A framework merchant arriving with a certification and a sixty-slide operating model.
Level 2 on the ladder: someone who ships whatever the model returns. That's worse than not using AI at all, and we said so in print.
Anonymous. Your name goes on every redesign, and we treat that as the perk it is.
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How to apply
No cover letter. No 90-page portfolio PDF. No resume upload, even. The application is three questions:
One piece of work you shipped and now hate, with the reason. Two hundred words max.
The best idea you ever cut, and why it was right to cut it.
One thing in culture right now that makes you jealous.
Use AI to answer if you like; we do. We'll be able to tell whether you reviewed it.
Comeargue.
Yes, this job description was drafted with AI. A named human rewrote it, cut a third of it, and will defend every line on a call. That's the entire model, and it's hiring.
Frequently asked questions
The Wrangler owns the workers; you own the assembly lines. They decide which agents exist and whether they're any good. You decide where agents and humans stand, in what order, with what handoffs.
It's what operations becomes when the goal flips from control to speed: fewer steps, fewer meetings, fewer handoffs, measured in shipped weeks.
Both, unapologetically. The role is real and open; the posting argues the model, because the model is the job.
Because the seat is sized to the person in it. You'll hear a real range in the first conversation, before you've invested anything beyond the three answers.
A named human reads all three answers. If they're real, we call you.