About the job

Aralab is a leading manufacturer of environmental chambers and is committed to innovation, quality, design, and social responsibility. We are engineering-driven and hundreds of renowned research institutions and multinational companies have partnered with us for the past 41 years. Our team is currently 100 strong and is headquartered in Sintra, Portugal.

Your Team

The IT & Digital Transformation Team is a young and ambitious team located at our headquarters in Sintra. We are responsible for maintaining and improving the systems that keep our company running, ensuring our employees are happy and as efficient as possible at their jobs. We do that by keeping our infrastructure and software tools at the state of the art and by regularly delivering digital transformation projects to our teams and to our products.

Your Role

You'll be joining the IT & Digital Transformation Team to (a) take AI-powered digital projects from idea to production and (b) to product-own the Aralab Portal, our cloud platform for environmental chamber management. As part of our technical Business Operations cluster, you'll be the bridge between business stakeholders across the company and the engineering resources (internal, AI-assisted, and outsourced) that turn their pain points into working software.

We're looking for someone who's AI-native — you're already using tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or OpenCode daily. You don't wait for specs; you prototype, iterate, and deliver. You create systems that make your team more efficient.

What you'll do:

• Product-own the Aralab Portal, our B2B SaaS for environmental chamber management. You'll own the roadmap, translate stakeholder needs into user stories, gate releases before production, coordinate feature launches, and prepare our internal teams to confidently operate the backoffice.

• Discover, design, prototype, and later product-own AI-powered digital projects across the company. Spot friction in R&D, production, sales, or service; build something that works within days; then decide whether to scale it in-house, commission it externally, or kill it.

• Manage our external software development partners — scope engagements, review deliverables, validate quality, and gate everything before it touches production.

• Run user research, write clear functional and technical requirements, and procure software development or SaaS when building doesn't make sense.

About You

• You have a strong sense of ownership and a builder's mindset. You're entrepreneurial and ambitious — you take a half-formed problem, carve out a path, and ship. You'd rather put something imperfect in front of users this week than something perfect next quarter.

• You're a great communicator who moves comfortably between shop-floor conversations, engineering sync-ups, and leadership updates. You keep stakeholders aligned without creating bureaucracy.

• You're intensely curious and always learning. When you hit something unfamiliar, your first instinct is to dig in, read the docs, and figure it out — not to delegate it away.

• You have recently created software with AI agents (not Lovable, Replit, or similar) — you don't need to be a formally trained developer, but you can read code, prototype a small tool, and debug your way through a Python or TypeScript file when you need to.

• 3+ years of experience in software development, tech consulting, BizOps, or a related field

• Fluent in Portuguese, intermediate English

We'll consider a plus if you have:

• Shipped a side project or internal tool you can show us

• Created AI agents

• Experience with automation platforms such as n8n, Power Automate, Windmill, Kestra, Activepieces, etc.

• Experience with Python or Typescript

• Familiarity with Docker, DevOps, and Git workflows

• Experience managing tech projects in a small company, startup, or scrappy team environment

Why Aralab?

• Competitive salary and bonuses

• Flexible hybrid work policy

• Upskill allowance for certs and events

• Clear internal career progression path

• Company phone and laptop

• Health insurance from day one

• Company-wide events and teambuilding activities