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Perkbox Vivup

Principle AI & Automation Lead Fixed-Term Role

Department
Engineering
Job Type / Location
onsite
Experience Required
9+ years
Posted On

This is a fixed-term contract role until the end of 2026.

Does this sound like you? You are a hands-on, cross-functional leader who thrives at the intersection of strategy and execution. With a commercial mindset and a track record of delivering AI or automation solutions, you enjoy identifying high-value problems and turning them into working products. You are someone who goes beyond advisory roles to build, ship, and scale solutions that drive real adoption and measurable business impact.

What you’ll be doing (in a nutshell): In this role, you’ll be our AI transformation lead, responsible for embedding AI into the very fabric of how we work. You will identify the highest-value opportunities for automation across Product, Finance, People, and Customer Service, moving quickly from pilot to production. Your focus will be on driving genuine behavior change, setting internal standards, and ensuring we scale AI responsibly and effectively. This is not a research or advisory role. You are expected to build, ship, iterate, and scale.

Day-to-day you can expect to:

Identify and prioritize AI use cases with clear ROI and business value

Design and implement AI-enabled workflows and automation solutions

Partner with Engineering, DevOps, and Data teams to integrate pilot solutions into production

Run training and coaching sessions to upskill teams across the company on AI tools like Claude, Skills on Claude, Copilot to increase adoption and scale AI usage

Create playbooks and repeatable patterns to embed AI into daily workflows

Establish guardrails and standards for responsible AI usage and data compliance

Monitor productivity improvements and iterate on solutions based on performance data

To be successful, you'll have:

A proven track record of delivering AI or automation solutions with measurable impact

Hands-on experience with modern AI tools and workflows like Claude Code, Cowork, Codex, Skills, Building Agents & Subagents and ChatGPT

Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders and manage change

A commercial mindset focused on efficiency, cost savings, and ROI

Strong cross-functional collaboration skills to work across diverse business units

An understanding of responsible AI usage, risk management, and regulatory requirements

A detail-oriented approach to ensuring the reliability and usability of deployed solutions

Bonus points if you bring:

Experience working in a fast-moving scale-up or private equity-backed environment

Familiarity with low-code automation tools to speed up delivery

Experience building internal AI capability programs or playbooks from scratch

Why Perkbox?

It's an exciting time to join us at such a pivotal moment. We recently launched our Bulgarian operations with a bold mission to build a high-p

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