At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and implement automation solutions to enhance customer care efficiency.
- Company: Join Perk, a leading platform transforming travel and spend management.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, equity ownership, and 25 days of annual leave.
- Other info: Be part of a dynamic team driving innovation in a global company.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by streamlining operations and improving customer experiences.
- Qualifications: Experience with automation tools like Make.com, Zapier, and Airtable.
The predicted salary is between 56700 - 69300 £ per year.
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.
About the Role
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.
What You’ll Do
- 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.
- Write automations that are maintainable, documented, and safe for someone else to pick up.
- Monitor production systems, debug fast, and keep operational impact low when things go wrong.
- Know when Make/Zapier-class tools are enough, and when the problem needs a different approach.
- Keep an eye on new automation and AI capabilities, and bring the useful ones in deliberately.
- Be the person others ask when they're stuck on architecture, platform limits, or how to ship AI safely.
- Review builds before they go live when that review actually reduces risk.
- Create reusable components, patterns, and standards so the next build is faster and cleaner.
Teamwork
- Sit with Opex and Operations until you understand the real problem, then design the right fix.
- Shape discovery and scoping so solutions stay practical and maintainable.
- Keep stakeholders clear on progress, risks, dependencies, and dates.
- Feed operational feedback back into the next version.
What We’re Looking For
- 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.
How We’ll Know You’re Winning
- Automations that meaningfully cut manual work in Customer Care.
- Multi-system builds that stay reliable once they're live.
- High reliability, performance, and adoption - not just "launched".
- Clear gains in operational efficiency, agent experience, and customer experience.
What We Offer
- Receive competitive compensation and equity ownership in Perk.
- Rest and recharge with 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
Business Automation Specialist - Customer Care in Birmingham employer: Perk
As a leading fintech company in London, we pride ourselves on fostering a dynamic work culture that champions innovation and collaboration. Our employees benefit from a hybrid working model, competitive remuneration, and ample opportunities for professional growth within the rapidly evolving payments sector. Join us to be part of a forward-thinking team dedicated to operational excellence and making a meaningful impact in the fintech landscape.
