AI & Automation Specialist (Talent Acquisition)

About Us

Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. Built to tackle the time-consuming, manual work that gets in the way of real work, our tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses, invoice processing, and more. By eliminating this shadow work that wastes hours, erodes morale, and saps innovation, we’re on a mission to power real work, with real impact.

We’re trusted by more than 10,000 companies worldwide, including Wise, On Running, Breitling, and Fabletics, and we’re tackling the 7 hours of lost productivity per employee each week, a $1.7 trillion problem.

Founded in 2015, Perk has grown into a global company of more than 1,800 people across 12 offices globally, with headquarters in London and Boston. We combine innovation, control, and simplicity to transform how businesses work and how people feel at work.

At Perk, we’re driven by our values, like being an owner, delivering a 7-star experience, and working as one team. We value curiosity, purpose, and mindset, not just knowledge, to unlock the power in your potential. Our talent team brings together leading minds from the travel and SaaS industries, representing over 70 countries. If you’re excited about having a real impact and shaping how millions of people experience work, we’d love you on the team.

Visit www.perk.com to learn more.

The mission of this role couldn’t be more clear: We're building a best-in-class recruiting engine and we want to automate as much of the candidate journey as possible and leverage AI to remove shadow work. As our AI & Automation Specialist within the Talent Acquisition team, you'll be the person who makes recruiting faster, smarter, and more consistent by building the artifacts, systems and automations that power it. Are you ready for the challenge?

This is a builder role within the Talent Acquisition team. You'll have ownership over what gets built and the autonomy to choose the right tool for each job, from a Make scenario to a Python service to a lightweight internal app.

Reporting the Head of Talent Acquisition Operations and Insights, you'll sit within the Talent Acquisition team to work closely with recruiters, hiring managers, and the broader People function to identify manual work that shouldn't be manual, and then eliminate it with scalable and easy to maintain solutions.

What you'll do

AI & Automations

Own the design and build of applications, automations, and integrations across the recruiting stack

Map candidate journey touch points to identify friction and manual effort

Build solutions such as Zapier or Make flows, Python scripts, web hooks and API integrations, and lightweight internal tools

Connect the ATS with other systems, including communication tools, HRIS, sourcing platforms, and LLMs

Ensure data moves cleanly between systems

Write AI-assisted SQL queries to pull and validate data

Build operational reports and surface insights to help the team make better decisions.

Turn recruiter-described repetitive tasks into workflows

Enablement:

Document the applications you built and the integrations you implemented, then roll them out and train the team on how to use them.

Enable the team, allowing them to better understand how they can use the available AI tools in their day-to-day.

Stay up to date with AI innovations and identify opportunities, benchmark and eventually implement new features or technologies as they arise.

What We're looking for

The successful candidate will have most of the following elements as part of their experience:

More than 3 years of experience working as Engineer or related field

At least has been the last year building applications using AI and implementing automations in a professional/real company context

Knowledgeable about the key differences between main LLM models and selecting the best model for each use case

Worked extensively with no-code/low-code platforms such as Zapier or Make at a large scale

Proficient in creating SQL to query operational data and build reports independently

Understands the recruiting process, data model, and candidate experience to design contextually appropriate automations

Experience in the Talent Acquisition domain: Background may include HR Tech, recruiting software companies, or TA/Business Operations in a tech company

Why Join Us

Impactful Work: The role offers the opportunity to drive transformational change in how recruiting is done, leveraging cutting-edge AI and automation to remove manual, repetitive tasks.

Innovation: The position is at the forefront of integrating AI and automation in Talent Acquisition, allowing the successful candidate to stay ahead of industry trends and continuously implement the latest technologies.

Ownership & Autonomy: You will own the design and build of key systems and automations, making a tangible difference to the efficiency and effectiveness of the recruiting process.

Collaboration: There is potential to collaborate with talented recruiters, hiring managers, and the broader People function, giving you strong exposure across the business and opportunities to learn from different perspectives.

Skill Growth: The mix of technical work (AI, scripting, integrations, SQL) and enablement (documentation, training, team empowerment) will help you develop a versatile and future-proof skill set.

Domain Expertise: You’ll work within the growing Talent Acquisition function, gaining deep experience in HR Tech and recruiting operations within an innovative company.

How We Work

At Perk, we take an IRL-first approach to work, where our team works together in-person 3 days a week. As such, this role requires you to be based within commuting distance of our hubs. We fundamentally believe in the value of meeting in real life to improve connectivity, productivity, creativity and ultimately making us a great place to work.

For certain roles, we can help with relocation from anywhere in the world, English is the official language at the office. Please submit your resume in English if you choose to apply. Do not forget to submit an updated portfolio and/or resume.

Perk is a global company with a diverse customer base, and we want to make sure the people behind our product reflect that. We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means you’re welcome at Perk regardless of how you look, where you’re from, or anything else that makes you, well, you.

Protect Yourself from Recruitment Scams

All official communication from Perk will always come from email addresses ending in @perk.com or @externalperk.com, our verified social media channels, or recruiters listed on our official LinkedIn page. We will never ask you to pay for equipment, training, or fees, request sensitive personal information such as bank details early in the process, or communicate through unofficial apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal. If you receive a message claiming to be from Perk that seems suspicious, please do not respond. Forward it to security [at] perk .com, and we will confirm whether it is legitimate.