Relay

People Systems & Automation Specialist

Toronto, ON · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 120 days ago

SnowflakeRESTData VisualizationJiraRecruitingHRISLeadership

About the role

We do this by replacing financial guesswork with real visibility, transforming cash flow from a constant source of stress into a clear signal owners can use to run stronger, more resilient businesses.
The mandate is clear: automate the automatable, streamline the rest, and leave the People team operating at a fundamentally different level of efficiency.
The Problem Statement Right now, our People tech stack is fragmented.

Identify what can be fully automated, what needs a human in the loop/lead and why, and what is manual today only because no one has built the solution yet.
Build a prioritized automation roadmap and own delivery against it.
Evaluate workflow automation and integration platforms, make a recommendation on what our team should adopt to best achieve our goals, and implement it.
Build and maintain integrations between systems using native connectors, automation tooling, and lightweight custom solutions where gaps exist.
Partner with IT to understand existing tools, surface underutilized capability, and ensure the People team can use what we have before we add anything new to our stack.
Bring People data into a data visualization tool (Snowflake or similar) so the team has a reliable, queryable data layer, and help build the integrations that get clean and correct data there automatically.
Own documentation on system configurations, integrations, and decisions (via Notion) so nothing lives only in your head.
Identify where AI can replace manual judgment in low-stakes, high-frequency People tasks and build those workflows.
Build and maintain a single source of truth for People data: headcount, attrition, compensation, engagement, and hiring metrics, and keep it accurate.
Build self-serve dashboards that give People Business Partners and leadership real-time visibility without coming to you for every pull.

You have 2-4 years of hands-on experience owning and improving systems and tooling, and more recently with AI's advancements, you have shipped automations that other people now depend on.
The specific tools matter less than the depth of your experience and your ability to transfer it to whatever stack Relay adopts.
You are genuinely

HRIS, ATS, onboarding, employee experience, and benefits tools with a mandate to make them work together.
Stay close to what is new in HR/People tech and AI tooling and experiment quickly.
This is a 12-month contract.
Prepare ad hoc analyses and reporting for board materials and executive updates in partnership with People leadership.
Track ROI on People tech investments and flag what is not earning its cost.

Build and maintain a single source of truth for People data: headcount, attrition, compensation, engagement, and hiring metrics, and keep it accurate.

Map every People process end-to-end: Onboarding, offboarding, employee changes, benefits enrollment, performance cycles, etc, and document the current state with clear eyes.
Own our full People tech stack: HRIS, ATS, onboarding, employee experience, and benefits tools with a mandate to make them work together.
Our current tech stack contains: Rippling, Gusto, Ashby, CultureAmp, Notion, Google Suite, Claude, ChatGPT, Jira, and various benefits/insurance provider platforms.

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