HR AI and Automation Lead

About the role

You will own the practical application of AI and automation across HR at Stark to reduce administrative work and improve data quality. Your goal is to identify opportunities, build and deploy solutions, and measure their impact across recruiting, people operations, and workforce planning. You will work with HR leadership, IT, Security, Legal, and Finance to ensure solutions are reliable for a defence technology environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the HR AI and automation roadmap and prioritise projects by business value and readiness.
• Build and maintain workflows for recruiting handovers, onboarding, employee changes, and reporting.
• Develop an HR knowledge assistant using approved policies and ensure it references current sources.
• Connect HR systems and collaboration tools through approved integrations to improve data consistency.
• Improve workforce reporting with reliable headcount, hiring, and process data.
• Evaluate tools and vendors with IT, Security, and Legal while defining access controls and data handling.
• Test output quality, permissions, and failure scenarios to maintain dependable workflows.
• Train HR colleagues and managers while reporting on results like time saved and error rates.

Required skills

• HR technology
• HR operations
• Automation
• AI solutions
• Workflow platforms
• APIs
• Webhooks
• Language models
• Project management

Nice to have

• Personio
• Greenhouse
• Google Workspace
• Slack
• Confluence
• SQL
• Python
• German language

Qualifications

• Experience in HR technology, HR operations, business systems or automation
• Experience in defence, aerospace, manufacturing or another regulated sector

About the Company

Stark is a defence technology company that equips NATO Allies and partners with next-generation autonomous defence platforms and advanced AI-driven software. They combine elite engineering talent with agile technology to turn complex defence challenges into multi-domain solutions.