AI E-Commerce Operator

The Role

The AI E-Commerce Operator will execute Shopify tasks for clients across Lake House Group’s portfolio, using our proprietary Shopify coding agent to build sections, add features, and fix bugs, combined with hands-on Shopify admin work where AI can’t reach yet. You’ll receive tasks from our Product Owners and deliver at a pace and quality level that wasn’t possible before these tools existed.

You’re the person who makes things happen inside Shopify stores. You’ll also help us refine how we make things happen, feeding back what works and what doesn’t into our AI workflows. You’ll also work with our Klaviyo agent on email and SMS-related tasks as the tooling evolves.

There is no “typical week” for this role. What you do in month one won’t look like what you do in month three. The scope will expand as the tools improve and as you push their limits. You’ll work directly with our AI engineer when you need access to the latest capabilities or hit advanced technical questions. Your job is to operate at the edge of what’s possible and report back what you find.

You’ll be expected to stay on top of what’s happening in AI and e-commerce. On X, in newsletters, in communities. This isn’t optional. The landscape moves weekly, and so does this role.

Reality Check

Lake House has tripled in size over 3 years and is aiming to do it again. We’ve built proprietary AI tools that change how e-commerce work gets done. This role is part of that bet.

The tools are real and working. But they’re also evolving. You’ll sometimes be the first person to test a new capability. Things will break. Workflows will change. What you do in month one won’t look like what you do in month six. That’s the point.

You’re not joining a polished operation with a fixed playbook. You’re joining a team that’s building the playbook while delivering real work for real clients. If that sounds exhausting, it probably isn’t the right fit. If it sounds exciting, it probably is.

Non-Negotiables

• 2+ years working in Shopify. You know the admin inside out. Products, collections, metafields, metaobjects, themes, apps, Flow. You don’t need a tutorial to navigate the platform.
• Advanced AI user. You’ve gone way beyond chatting with an AI. You’ve built custom skills, used coding agents like Claude Code to ship real work, automated workflows with AI, or pushed tools into territory they weren’t designed for. We’ll ask you to show us. If your AI experience is limited to asking ChatGPT to rewrite an email, this isn’t the role.
• Obsessively current. You follow AI and e-commerce developments daily. On X, in newsletters, in communities. You can tell us what happened this week. If we have to tell you about the latest Shopify or AI news, it’s probably not the right fit.
• Comfortable with technical concepts. You don’t need to write production code, but you understand how Liquid templates work, what an API does, how theme sections are structured. When the coding agent produces output, you can evaluate whether it’s right.
• Detail-oriented executor. You catch what others miss. You test before you ship. You care about the quality of what goes live on a client’s store.
• Based in Montreal. Hybrid work from our downtown WeWork office.

This Role Is Not For You If

• You need a clear, stable job description. There’s no established career path called “AI E-Commerce Operator.” The expectations will shift as the tools and the business evolve. If ambiguity stresses you out, this won’t work.
• You resist changing how you work. The coding agent gets better constantly. What required manual work last month might be fully automated next month. If you want to keep doing things the way you’ve always done them, you’ll fall behind here.
• You trade speed for quality. You’ll be able to deliver more than a traditional Shopify operator. But “more” doesn’t mean “sloppy.” The quality bar stays high even as throughput increases.
• You prefer deep focus on one thing. You’ll work across several brands in a given week. Context switching is part of the job.

What Makes Someone Succeed Here

You’re genuinely curious about AI and what it can do. Not as hype, but as a tool. You test things on your own time. You’ve probably broken a few things experimenting. You don’t wait to be told what to try. You try it and report back. You’re rigorous about the details even when moving fast. You care about getting it right, not just getting it done. You communicate clearly when something doesn’t work or when you spot a better way. You’re comfortable saying “I don’t know yet, but I’ll figure it out.”

What You’ll Learn & Grow Into

How AI agents actually work in production. Not theory, real daily execution. Deep Shopify mastery across complex multi-market, multi-catalog implementations. How to evaluate, improve, and push the limits of AI-powered workflows. A front-row seat to how an agency is redefining e-commerce services. The skills to operate in a category that barely exists today but will define e-commerce operations in the years ahead.

You’ll have access to unlimited AI tokens. If that sentence excites you, you’re probably right for this role.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary, discussed during the interview process.
• Hybrid work. A mix of working from home and from our downtown Montreal WeWork office.
• Wellness and cell phone allocation.
• Unlimited access to AI tools. We invest in the infrastructure so you can push limits.
• Room to grow. Small team means real impact.
• Learning environment. This is a team that’s obsessed with getting better.
• Autonomy.

About Lake House Group

Lake House Group is an AI Commerce agency for Shopify brands, helping companies break through growth and operational bottlenecks by modernizing systems, automating workflows, and embedding intelligence across operations, marketing, and product management.

Through the right mix of technology, training, and hands-on partnership, Lake House helps brands move with more clarity, speed, and adaptability in the era of intelligent commerce.