Senior AI Automation Developer (Remote, Freelance / Contract)

Job Description

We're developing an internal AI agent that automates daily hotel operations. This includes everything from lead generation and personalized sales outreach to price optimization, occupancy tracking, email triage, and Slack-based alerts. This isn’t just about building scripts. It’s about creating a smart, self-adaptive system that supports daily revenue, lead conversion, and guest management decisions across multiple hotel properties. What You’ll Build Initial Scope (Pilot Phase): Scrape competitor hotel pricing from sites like Google Hotels, Expedia, and Booking.com Integrate Gmail API to flag, extract, and summarize high-priority emails using GPT Post urgent booking requests or replies into Slack automatically Compare real-time competitor rates against internal base pricing to suggest adjustments Follow-Up Scope (Phase 2): Develop GPT-based email generation logic for lead outreach (contractors, travel nurses, etc.) Implement pricing flex logic based on occupancy, urgency, and budget constraints Build Slack-based follow-up and task reminder flows tied to Airtable status changes Create scalable property-specific controls (so the system works across locations like McKinney, Las Colinas, etc.) Required Skills Experience with Zapier, Make.com, or equivalent automation tools Ability to work with OpenAI’s GPT-4 API and prompt engineering principles Strong with Gmail API and/or Google Apps Script Comfortable building Airtable-based dashboards and workflows Experience building custom Slack bots or workflows via Slack API Web scraping experience (e.g., using Python with BeautifulSoup, Playwright, or Puppeteer) Understands how to chain tools logically and build with clarity Nice to Have Past projects involving sales automation or hospitality operations Ability to think in systems (e.g., input → decision logic → automated action) Comfortable communicating progress async and documenting edge cases clearly Work Environment Work async, communicate via Slack Daily/weekly goals delivered via Trello or Notion You’ll work directly with the founder (no layers of middle management) Speed, clarity, and pragmatic thinking are highly valued How to Apply Send an email to asyed@htravelss.com or message me here on LinkedIn with: A link to your GitHub, Notion portfolio, or past project demo A 3–5 sentence write-up on how you'd approach the email filtering + competitor pricing logic If this looks like a system you’d enjoy building — let’s talk. Show more Show less