Innovation Developer

Role Within Team The Innovation Team is small and touches a lot of the agency including analytics/reporting, vendor management, and increasingly AI/technology projects. This role is the team's hands-on builder. What This Person Will Generally Be Doing Building and maintaining internal business applications on Microsoft's Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate)Building AI-assisted automations and agents (Microsoft Copilot Studio or similar) to support specific departments as needs come up (legal, marketing, and others over time)Contributing to web development projectsActing as the team's go-to technical resource. Helping think through architecture, feasibility, and build-vs-buy questions for projects across the agency, not just the ones assigned directly to the teamTaking on a mix of larger, multi-month builds and smaller one-off requests from teams across SSP, often starting from a loosely defined ask The Type of Person We're Looking For Early-career but someone who might already have some experienceReal developer fundamentals, not just comfort using AI tools. Someone who understands code and logic well enough to build and maintain real systems, and to know when AI-generated output is actually correctComfortable using AI as part of how they work day-to-day, including coding, automation, and building AI-powered tools for others, but as something additive to development skill, not a substitute for itCurious and comfortable with ambiguity. This person won't be handed fully scoped requirements; they'll need to take direction on business context from the team and own the technical execution themselvesAble to move between bigger strategic builds and small, immediate requests without needing everything perfectly defined upfront