Do you want to work with a team that think people and culture are the most important assets of the company? Do you want to become a next generation thought leader in figuring out how to create the world’s greatest working places? Do you find Northern.tech’s culture enticing? Do you have an interest in technology and computers?

We are looking for a young up and coming operations and culture 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. The person will help us improve our people's life-cycle from hiring and onboarding to eventual off-boarding.

You will be our first people and HR person, and we hope you will grow into becoming our head of people and, thereby, become an important leader in the company.

Please note that for this role candidates can be located either in Oslo or remotely in Europe, but need basic Norwegian language skills and help us comply with Norwegian laws and public online systems.

In this position, you will:

• Be a strong force in ensuring Northern.tech remains a happy and healthy organization
• Ensure our culture persists through growth, and we live by our beliefs
• 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