About the role
At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As the People Automation & AI Partner at Vanta, you'll be the hands-on builder embedded in our Recruiting and People teams, designing, shipping, and scaling the workflows, agents, and automations that remove manual work across recruiting and People operations so our team can focus on the work that moves the business. Recruiting is the front door to that talent, and the speed, quality, and consistency of our hiring engine is a top priority for this role. The People team at Vanta is building the infrastructure to hire, develop, and retain world-class talent at scale. We're not just running processes, we're rethinking them. That means bringing in the tooling, AI, and automation capabilities to match the speed and ambition of the company we're building. What you’ll do as a People Automation & AI Partner at Vanta: Design, build, and maintain AI-powered workflows, automations, apps, and agents (Claude, Claude Code, Dust, Zapier) that eliminate manual lift across Recruiting and People operations Own Dust agent architecture for the People team: build and maintain agents, skills, and connectors that support recruiters, coordinators, hiring managers, and People partners across pods Take team-generated concepts and one-off ideas and turn them into durable, documented, adopted production workflows Build and maintain automation across the recruiting funnel, sourcing outreach, interview scheduling and coordination, candidate communication, and offer-to-hire handoffs, as a first-class use case for this role Serve as a technical build partner for Ashby-driven workflows, treating the ATS as a primary automation surface alongside Dust and Claude Proactively identify automation opportunities across People processes and prototype solutions fast, from AI-powered reporting pipelines to candidate communication workflows Partner with People Systems on automations that touch system architecture or data structure, without owning that configuration yourself Partner with People Operations on workflow automations that support their process execution Partner with broader Recruiting & People Operations teams to structure and maintain the knowledge base (Confluence/Guru) that powers AI agents and automations Evaluate, pilot, and implement new AI and workflow tools as the market evolves, with a bias toward tools that meaningfully reduce manual effort for