Business Automation Specialist - Customer Care
Role Summary
Join Perk as a Business Automation Specialist in Customer Care to design and implement automated solutions that enhance productivity and customer experience.
About the Organisation
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.
Customer Care at Perk is being rebuilt around automation and AI. This role is for someone who likes taking a messy operational problem and turning it into something that runs in production.
As an Automation Specialist, you'll design and ship the systems that cut manual work, make agents faster, and improve what customers actually experience. You'll work across Make.com, Airtable, Zendesk, Claude, APIs, and whatever else the problem needs. Some days that's a workflow. Some days it's an AI tool with evals, guardrails, and a kill switch. The through-line is the same: get it from idea to live, then keep it reliable.
You'll partner with Operational Excellence, Customer Care Leadership, and Operations. You'll own delivery end to end, and you'll be measured on whether the things you build actually stick.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and deploy solutions across Make.com, Airtable, Zendesk, Claude, APIs, and AI tooling.
- Wire up multi-system integrations that remove real manual effort, not just move it around.
- Own projects from the first sketch through production and ongoing improvement.
- Stand up proper testing and validation environments so "it worked in my scenario" isn't the bar.
- Turn business problems into technical designs, and flag new automation opportunities as you go.
- Stay close after launch: watch adoption, fix what breaks, iterate on what underperforms
Minimum Requirements
- Shipped production automations on Make.com, Zapier, Claude, or similar not just demos.
- Worked with Airtable or comparable systems as a real ops backbone, not a side spreadsheet.
- Built LLM-powered workflows with prompt craft, evaluation, and guardrails — and knows when the model shouldn't act alone.
- Strong at debugging production systems under time pressure.
- Can turn a fuzzy business request into something scalable and supportable.
- Comfortable working with both technical and operational partners.
- Prefers speed and ambiguity over perfect specs.
Working Conditions
AI is embedded in how we work across every function. The tools you'll use day-to-day are AI-enabled, so you can move faster and spend more time on the work that matters. In practice, that means using AI to research and prioritise accounts, draft and refine outreach, handle customer interactions more effectively, synthesise information, and cut through shadow work - the invisible tasks that pull people away from the work only they can do - so you can focus on relationships and outcomes.
We don't expect you to be an AI expert, but we do expect you to be curious and intentional about it. The bar is judgment: knowing when AI makes your work better, when to verify what it produces, and when to rely on your own expertise instead.
We'll ask about how you use AI in your interviews, not to test tool knowledge, but to understand how you think about it. That reflects how we work every day.
- Receive competitive compensation and equity ownership in Perk
- Rest and recharge with 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- Take control of your physical health with private medical cover and voluntary dental insurance from Bupa, and discounted gym memberships with GymFlex
- Plan for your future with our qualifying earnings company pension plan with Aviva
- Know that your loved ones are protected financially through your Life Insurance if the worst were to happen
- Rest assured that you’re covered by income protection in case you experience a long-term sickness or absence
- Leverage tax-efficient cycle and electric car schemes with Cycle2Work & Octopus
- Join our unforgettable Perk events, including our spectacular annual summer party
- Always feel supported with Spring Health, our market-leading wellbeing partner, providing fast, comprehensive access to 12x therapy and 12x coaching sessions for you and your loved ones
- Focus on your family with 12-16 weeks’ paid parental leave
- Contribute to your community with 16 paid hours per year to spend volunteering for your dearest charitable causes
- Broaden your horizons with up to 20 "Work from Anywhere" days per year
- Stay savvy with access to a wide variety of discounts and rewards
- Follow your passions and take a four-week, fully paid sabbatical once you reach 5 years
- Let us help you move to one of our hubs with relocation support
Eligibility Criteria
The job does not specify eligibility for international applicants, including those from Africa.
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