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 collaborate 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 implementation effort.
• Build and maintain workflows for recruiting handovers, onboarding, employee changes, and reporting.
• Develop an HR knowledge assistant using approved policies and guidance while ensuring data security.
• Connect HR systems and collaboration tools through approved integrations.
• Improve data consistency and resolve failed handovers across HR and Finance systems.
• Evaluate tools and vendors with IT, Security, and Legal while defining access controls and data handling procedures.
• Maintain documentation, alerts, and recovery procedures for all deployed workflows.
• Train HR colleagues and managers on new solutions and report on operational metrics like time saved and error rates.

Required skills

• HR technology
• HR operations
• Business systems
• Automation
• Workflow platforms
• APIs
• Webhooks
• Language models
• Data flow troubleshooting
• Project management

Nice to have

• Personio
• Greenhouse
• Google Workspace
• Slack
• Confluence
• SQL
• Python
• German language
• Defence sector experience
• Aerospace sector experience

Qualifications

• Around five years or more in HR technology, HR operations, business systems or automation
• Evidence of AI or automation solutions deployed and maintained
• Practical ability to build integrations using workflow platforms, APIs and webhooks
• Professional fluency in English

About the Company

STARK is a defence technology company that designs, develops and manufactures high-performance, software-defined, and scalable unmanned systems. The company focuses on delivering deployable technology to bolster the edge of NATO Allies and their Partners.