Pleo · 7 hours ago
People Tech Systems Lead
Holland, MI
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expPleo is a company dedicated to transforming spend management for businesses, aiming to simplify and enhance financial processes for both finance teams and employees. The People Tech Engineering Lead will be responsible for overseeing the People Technology systems, ensuring they align with the company’s growth and operational needs while providing technical guidance and leadership. This role involves defining the technical roadmap, improving processes, and enhancing the overall People Tech experience.
Financial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobile PaymentsPayments
Responsibilities
Define the technical roadmap and architecture for our People SaaS ecosystem including HiBob, GreenHouse, Zinc, Contractbook and supporting tools, setting integration standards and assessing new platforms
Partner with People Operations, Talent Acquisition, Payroll and L&D as a trusted advisor to improve processes, clarify ownership and strengthen operational maturity, balancing technical feasibility with business needs
Build and maintain integrations using APIs webhooks scheduled jobs and lightweight code to ensure accurate secure and reliable data flows
Drive automation to improve lifecycle processes including onboarding, offboarding, promotions, compensation changes and organisational moves
Perform hands-on configuration, system administration and low-code/no-code tooling work to implement improvements directly
Establish documentation standards playbooks and system patterns that support consistency knowledge sharing and high quality decision making
Lead improvement initiatives that enhance data quality, system reliability, process scalability and the overall People Tech experience
Troubleshoot incidents and complex technical issues across our People systems and integrations ensuring timely resolution and clear communication
Own data governance across People systems, ensuring GDPR compliance and secure data transport between platforms
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in People Tech / HRIS engineering, system administration, or technical HRIS roles
Strong understanding of HRIS architecture system integrations and API based automation
Experience managing and optimising People systems such as HiBob, Ashby, Workday, Greenhouse or similar tools
Proven ability to reason about processes at both a high level and a detailed technical level
Confidence working autonomously in ambiguous environments with a proactive problem solving mindset
Ability to write clear documentation patterns and explanations that guide others
A collaborative approach with the ability to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions
Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to build trusted relationships across People teams and the wider business
Benefits
Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
Lunch is on us for your work days - enjoy catered meals or receive a lunch allowance based on your local office 🍜
Comprehensive private healthcare - depending on your location, coverage options include Vitality, Alan or Médis
We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
For our Team, we offer both hybrid and fully remote working options
Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
We use MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and well-being support with great success so far ❤️🩹
Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work 👶
Company
Pleo
Pleo provides smart payment cards for employees to buy work-related products while giving employers control and oversight over the spending.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$470.93MKey Investors
HSBC Innovation BankingCoatueStripes
2024-05-01Debt Financing· $42.87M
2021-12-09Series C· $200M
2021-07-06Series C· $150M
Leadership Team
Jeppe Rindom
Co-founder & CEO
Petr Janda
VP of Engineering
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