People & Culture Automation & AI Project Manager

Celonis Celonis · Data AI · Madrid, Spain · Corporate

This role is responsible for building AI-powered workflows, agentic automations, and system integrations within the People & Culture tech ecosystem. It involves hands-on work with tools like Make, Claude, and Workday, focusing on reducing manual effort and improving employee experience. The role is 80% building and 20% shaping future AI initiatives, requiring strong systems thinking, experience with agentic AI frameworks, prompt engineering, and a good understanding of HR operations.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, build and maintain automations and agentic solutions across our P&C tech stack using Make, API integrations, and agentic AI frameworks
  2. Implement end-to-end AI workflows from prompt design and LLM orchestration to testing, deployment, and iteration as well as owning enabling our people teams on the new solution.
  3. Configure and extend Workday to support new automation logic and integration requirements
  4. Own the AI and automation layer of our tech ecosystem, keeping it performant, documented, and scalable
  5. Project manage the projects you are working on end to end including stakeholder management, governance and enablement

Skills

Required

  • Agentic AI frameworks such as Claude, OpenAI or Gemini
  • Prompt engineering & LLM orchestration
  • Make or similar iPaaS automation tools
  • API integration knowledge such as REST and webhooks and experience with MCP
  • A genuine understanding of HR operations
  • The ability to move fast without cutting corners
  • Clear communication

Nice to have

  • Experience with P&C systems like Workday, Greenhouse, Jira and others
  • Exposure to P&C compliance, data privacy (GDPR), or global employment contexts
  • Experience in a fast-scaling tech company or a P&C Operations environment

What the JD emphasized

  • 80% building, 20% shaping what we should build next
  • primary builder of AI-powered workflows, agentic automations, and system integrations
  • implement, maintain and enable agentic AI as a new way of working
  • Comfort with ambiguity, this is a new role in a team that is actively building its AI practice. You'll need to help define what good looks like

Other signals

  • AI-powered workflows
  • agentic automations
  • system integrations
  • AI and automation tooling
  • practical application of AI