Role overview
At Pencil, we are driving innovation in advertising technology through our state-of-the-art SaaS product, which harnesses Generative AI to redefine content creation. Our mission is to make AI the default in advertising without replacing creative people. To achieve this, we need to make sure that our technology isn’t just in the hands of big brands - we need to try to help small businesses and creative individuals too. We're looking for someone who loves building automations, agents and workflows, and wants to point that instinct at People Ops. You'll own the data and systems behind our People Ops stack (HiBob, Ashby, Remote), and use that ownership as the foundation for turning slow, manual, multi-tool processes into things that mostly run themselves. This is a role for someone who'd rather ship a working automation this week and improve it next week than spend a month planning the perfect system - someone who gets a genuine kick out of making the unglamorous stuff disappear. You’ll bring expertise, energy, and commercial thinking to help us elevate our People processes. Key responsibilities: • Design, build, and maintain automations, workflows, and AI agents across our People Ops tooling (HiBob, Ashby, Remote) - from a simple triggered workflow to a more sophisticated internal agent - turning multi-step manual processes into things that run themselves. • Own the data layer everything else depends on: keep HiBob/Ashby/Remote data clean, resolve integration and schema issues between systems, and treat data integrity as the foundation of what you build, not an afterthought. • Run new joiner onboarding end to end, but treat every manual step you touch twice as a candidate for automation, with the goal is to keep making the proc