Granter is building an AI Grant Consultant, an AI agent that handles grants for your organization, end-to-end. It helps companies discover funding opportunities, draft stronger proposals faster, and manage funded projects after approval.

Our mission is to enable businesses of all sizes to leverage incentives to grow and innovate. We are deeply involved in the Portuguese startup ecosystem and were the winners of the Web Summit Pitch Competition 2025.

We are now looking for an AI Automation Specialist to help make Granter truly AI-native.

Half evangelist, half builder: you get teams excited about what's possible, then make it real. That means embedding with each department, understanding their goals, and turning them into working automations that move the numbers.

You're genuinely AI-pilled, technically strong, and sharp on product and business, someone who can talk to anyone and deliver 10x productivity gains you can actually measure.

What This Role Involves

• Be the internal champion for AI and automation and show every team what is now possible

• Meet with every department (operations, product, engineering, sales, and more), understand their workflows and goals, and find where AI and automation create the most leverage

• Devise a plan and prioritize. Decide what is worth automating first based on impact and effort, and align the relevant teams around it

• Build the automations end-to-end using tools like n8n, Make, Zapier, scripts, etc, connecting the systems the team already uses

• Measure impact. Track the time, cost, and errors each automation saves, and iterate on what actually matters

• Document what you build so it is reliable and the rest of the team can depend on it

What We Are Looking For

We care far more about profile than about years of experience. Three things matter most.

“AI-pilled”

• You have already tried most of the relevant AI tools and have a strong, opinionated sense of which tool is best for what

• You use AI daily and instinctively reach for automation before doing anything manually

• You keep up with what is new and can quickly judge whether it is useful or just hype

Technical background

• Enough technical foundation that the role can go as technical as it needs to: scripting, APIs, connecting systems, reading and adapting code

• You're comfortable reading and adapting code, working with APIs, and connecting systems.

• You can show us things you have built, vibe coded or automated, in a job, a side project, or just for yourself.

Product and business sense

• Able to talk to and understand each department's initiatives, translate their goals into automation opportunities, and prioritize by impact

• Strong analytical thinking and the ability to judge whether something is actually worth automating

• You think about outcomes for the business, not just the elegance of the automation

Additional Plus

• Bonus if you're already following the AI startup world closely: what's being built, how these companies operate, what's working

• This role has no seniority bar. but you need to stand out. Send us your projects, your automations, your GitHub, your side experiments. Show us you've been seriously walking this road.

Communication

• Clear and direct communicator

• Able to document issues clearly and make them easy to act on

• Fluent in English and Portuguese

Location requirement

This role requires physical presence in Lisbon. Please do not apply if you are not currently based in Lisbon.

Mindset

• High standards and a strong sense of ownership

• Strong structured thinking and problem solving

• Perseverance to go deep and do the work required to get things right

• Curiosity about how AI systems work

  
  

How We Like to Work

We aim to build a team of high-agency builders - people who take initiative, move problems forward, and don’t wait for permission to improve things.

You’ll likely do well here if you:

• Take ownership

• Focus on outcomes, not just outputs

• Move ideas forward quickly through testing and iteration

• Communicate clearly and give direct, no-B.S. feedback

• Collaborate effectively across disciplines

• Stay comfortable operating in ambiguity

• Are curious about AI and how technology reshapes work

  
  

Granter is still early in its journey, and we are serious about creating an environment where things get built. People here tend to befriend each other and often stay engaged with the team beyond the strict boundaries of work. We regularly spend time together through team activities and startup ecosystem events.

If that excites you, we’d love to hear from you. If it scares you, this may not be the right place, and that’s okay.