People Lead - Operations & Partnering at Ardoq

Driving operational excellence and people partnering as fuel for our high-performance culture.

The Ardoq Story

Ardoq is one of Norway’s most exciting scale-ups—a truly global company built out of Oslo. We are a SaaS platform that helps organizations understand, manage, and evolve their complex digital landscape. By providing a dynamic, collaborative "digital twin" of their business, we connect systems, people, and processes to drive better decision-making and accelerate digital transformation.

Today, we help some of the world’s most complex organizations (like Exxon Mobil and British Telecom) gain clarity in a changing world. We are backed by leading global tech investors, including EQT and One Peak, giving us the stability of a mature company with the speed and soul of a startup.

About the Role

At Ardoq, we believe that high performance is fuelled by people and scalable efficiency. As our People Lead in Operations & Partnering, you are a force behind our operational excellence and a partner to Ardoqians and leaders. Reporting to the People Operations Director and part of a wider People Operations and Partnering teams, you will take our global people standards and plans, turning them into a high-impact execution. Whilst this role is based in Oslo it supports multiple geographies.

We are extremely fast paced and operate internationally in: thought, approach and scale. We are a high performance culture and it’s expected you’ll make a significant impact, and this will be reflected in the career experiences you’ll gain, and the awesome Ardoqians you’ll collaborate with.

This is a highly independent individual contributor role that is very hands-on delivering execution excellence and you will also contribute to evolving how we work. You have the conviction to solve and scale everyday tasks, wrestle with the complex, remove ambiguity and advise up to senior stakeholders. You'll have the mindset to ensure our engine runs with efficiency and precision.

What you’ll do

• Execute with Excellence: Deliver and optimize the end-to-end people operations and partnering lifecycle, ensuring processes are executed with high-quality and friction-free. This ranges from transactional tasks, payrolls and benefits mgt, the ‘shared service’ style support queries resolution & advisory.

• Partnering: Act as an advisor to functional leaders & Ardoqians, providing the "on-the-ground" partnership that translates into team performance.

• Feed the Future: Work closely with the People Operations Director, Partnering & CoE teams to provide data-driven insights / reporting.

• Oslo Culture Lead: A key representative for the People team in Oslo, building community connectivity both ensuring our Nordic roots remain strong as we scale and as an International business.

• Drive AI & Efficiency: Proactively use AI and automation to improve our impact and customer experience, from removing manual tasks from your own workflow and the wider team's, ensuring we focus on high-impact.

Who you are

We are looking for someone who can easily flex their focus by zooming in and out as required. Someone who can handle a large and varied workload and self manages to work at incredible efficiency and pace. A collaborator who balances deep domain expertise with a humble, "team-first" mindset. You enjoy being with colleagues and office attendance is typically minimum 3 days a week. You are also comfortable working for an international organisation that will sometimes require flexibility in hours that cross over with colleagues in the UK and USA.

• The Operational Master: You have deep, hands-on experience with Norwegian labor law and Norwegian HR operations. You take pride in "getting it right" the first time. You roll your sleeves up and are in the machinery whilst looking where we are going.

• The Senior Partner: You have business commercial understanding and gravitas to manage up to senior stakeholders. Including "Caring" candor to deliver difficult feedback when necessary.

• The Problem Solver: You are highly analytical and driven to find solutions at the root. When you see a broken process, you don't just flag it; you propose and deliver the fix.

• The Tech-Savvy Lead: You are AI-fluent and proactively look for ways to leverage to solve scaling challenges.

• Language & HR: You are fluent in both Norwegian and English. Preferably native Norwegian and must have extensive deep understanding of Norwegian labor practices.

The "Ardoq Way"

We live by three core values that define how we work and treat each other:

• BOLD:You continuously raise the bar, challenging what’s possible and acting decisively even when information is incomplete to maintain momentum.

• CARING: You care enough to be candid. You deliver direct, kind, and constructive feedback to help your teammates grow, always putting collective success ahead of personal wins.

• DRIVEN: Each Ardoqian has stock options, so you can act like an owner, you know exactly what to do. You prioritize ruthlessly, saying "no" to distractions to focus on the highest-value outcomes at speed.

Why Ardoq?
You will work with exceptionally talented Ardoqians, all working towards our common goal. We also believe that high performance is powered by a competitive package that matches our performance expectations, along with personal and financial health benefits.

• Employee Stock Options - share in Ardoq’s success as we grow together

• 25 days annual leave offered globally

• Enhanced parental leave available globally to support you and your family

• Retirement and insurance benefits: healthcare, pension and may sometimes include travel, health, and life insurance. (depending on country)

• Annual learning budget to support your growth and development

• Access to a hybrid working policy as required: 3 days per week from our Oslo HQ. Its hoped however this role will predominantly be in the office.

How to Apply

Send us your CV - we’d love to hear from you. Our hiring process typically includes 3 - 4 interview stages:

Intro screen → chat with hiring manager → case interview → meet with the team.

Final Note

At Ardoq, every teammate has a voice. Whether you love tackling enterprise-scale challenges or improving how companies run, you’ll not only belong, you’ll impact, grow, and make work meaningful.

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