diff --git a/app/controllers/html_variant_trials_controller.rb b/app/controllers/html_variant_trials_controller.rb
index 00d212136..2a5bec0fe 100644
--- a/app/controllers/html_variant_trials_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/html_variant_trials_controller.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 class HtmlVariantTrialsController < ApplicationController
   def create
-    HtmlVariantTrial.delay.create(html_variant_id: params[:html_variant_id], article_id: params[:article_id])
+    HtmlVariantTrialCreateJob.perform_later(html_variant_id: params[:html_variant_id], article_id: params[:article_id])
     head :ok
   end
 end
diff --git a/app/jobs/html_variant_trial_create_job.rb b/app/jobs/html_variant_trial_create_job.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0552b1381
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/jobs/html_variant_trial_create_job.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+class HtmlVariantTrialCreateJob < ApplicationJob
+  queue_as :html_variant_trial_create
+
+  def perform(html_variant_id:, article_id:)
+    HtmlVariantTrial.create!(html_variant_id: html_variant_id, article_id: article_id)
+  end
+end
diff --git a/spec/jobs/html_variant_trial_create_job_spec.rb b/spec/jobs/html_variant_trial_create_job_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..468a12d8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/jobs/html_variant_trial_create_job_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+require "rails_helper"
+require "jobs/shared_examples/enqueues_job"
+
+RSpec.describe HtmlVariantTrialCreateJob, type: :job do
+  include_examples "#enqueues_job", "html_variant_trial_create", [{ html_variant_id: 789, article_id: 456 }]
+end
diff --git a/spec/requests/html_variant_trials_spec.rb b/spec/requests/html_variant_trials_spec.rb
index 8f1c60da6..9edc1d9da 100644
--- a/spec/requests/html_variant_trials_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/requests/html_variant_trials_spec.rb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ RSpec.describe "HtmlVariantTrials", type: :request do
 
   describe "POST /html_variant_trials" do
     it "rejects non-permissioned user" do
-      run_background_jobs_immediately do
+      perform_enqueued_jobs do
         post "/html_variant_trials", params: {
           article_id: article.id,
           html_variant_id: html_variant.id