Solid technical literacy plus a QA / testing mindset (enough to judge quality and test — you need NOT be a senior architect or full-stack developer).
Good documentation habits and a process-driven approach; a collaborative, ego-light team player.
Process-Minded: When you see a colleague manually copying data from one window to another, or spending hours manually organizing client assets, your immediate instinct is to ask: How do we build an automated workflow to make this run itself?
Clear Communicator & Documenter: You will be the bridge between technology and creativity. You need excellent communication skills to explain technical automation concepts to non-technical creatives, alongside the discipline to write crystal-clear, scannable documentation for the tools you build.
Thinks beyond simple task execution and looks at the entire system.
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