Head of People Operations
Northern.tech
People & HR, Operations
Remote · Oslo, Norway
Posted on Wednesday, February 2, 2022
To prepare for an expected high-growth phase, we are looking for a people person with a genuine interest in how to create an attractive, next generation work environment for smart people working in a distributed way. The right candidate possesses an innate understanding of how the interplay between technology and humans can lay the foundation for a happy organization.
Please note that for this role candidates can be located either in Oslo or remotely in Europe.
In this position, you will:
- Be a strong force in ensuring Northern.tech remains a happy and healthy organization
- Ensure our values and behavior also apply to Northern.tech’s ecosystem (vendors, partners, customers, etc.)
- Ensure an efficient and effective employee lifecycle, with:
- always enough new employee candidates in the pipeline
- highly streamlined onboarding process of new employees
- data-driven performance metric system of all employees
- fair and effective handling of HR related issues
- Ensure all improvement ideas are based on data, not subjective opinions
- Implement automation of as much as possible (always question old habits)
- Work with recruitment companies and advertisers to identify high quality candidates for company job openings
About you
Required skills and experience
- Experience from at least one culture-first company
- Experience in a fast growing software company
- You have extremely strong multi-cultural interpersonal skill sets
- You enjoy working with and testing out new technologies
- You have basic programming skills, or interest in automating repetitive tasks
- You are humble, and with strong self-confidence
- You are a creative person
- You are structured and effective
- Experience working with hybrid (central and distributed) organizations