People Lead - Operations & Partnering
About this role
<h3><span><strong id="docs-internal-guid-6529c5fb-7fff-204d-b379-59c6facc2d3f">People Lead - Operations & Partnering at Ardoq</strong></span></h3><p><span><strong id="docs-internal-guid-6529c5fb-7fff-204d-b379-59c6facc2d3f">Driving operational excellence and people partnering as fuel for our high-performance culture.</strong></span></p><p><span><strong id="docs-internal-guid-6529c5fb-7fff-204d-b379-59c6facc2d3f">The Ardoq Story</strong></span></p><p><span>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.</span></p><p><span>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.</span></p><h3><span><strong id="docs-internal-guid-6529c5fb-7fff-204d-b379-59c6facc2d3f">About the Role</strong></span></h3><p><span>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.</span></p><p><span>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.</span></p><p><span>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.</span></p><p><span><strong id="docs-internal-guid-6529c5fb-7fff-204d-b379-59c6facc2d3f">What you’ll do</strong></span></p><ul><li><p><span><strong id="docs-internal-guid-6529c5fb-7fff-204d-b379-59c6facc2d3f">Execute with Excellence: </strong>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 management, the ‘shared service’ style support queries resolution & advisory.</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong id="docs-internal-guid-6529c5fb-7fff-204d-b379-59c6facc2d3f">Partnering: </strong>Act as an advisor to functional leaders & Ardoqians, providing the "on-the-ground" partnership that translates into team performance.</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong id="docs-internal-guid-6529c5fb-7fff-204d-b379-59c6facc2d3f">Feed the Future: </strong>Work closely with the People Operations Director, Partnering & CoE teams to provide data-driven insights / reporting.</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong id="docs-internal-guid-6529c5fb-7fff-204d-b379-59c6facc2d3f">Oslo Culture Lead: </strong>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.</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong id="docs-internal-guid-6529c5fb-7fff-204d-b379-59c6facc2d3f">Drive AI & Efficiency: </strong>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.</span></p></li></ul><p><span><strong id="docs-internal-guid-6529c5fb-7fff-204d-b379-59c6facc2d3f">Who you