People Lead, Norway

Ardoq LLC; Oslo; On-site; NOK 1,000,000 - 1,700,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Stock Options

25 days annual leave

Enhanced parental leave

Retirement and insurance benefits

Annual learning budget

Hybrid working policy

Job summary

Ardoq is seeking a People Lead for Norway to partner with senior leaders, shape how teams are built, and protect our Oslo roots as we scale globally.

You will coach leaders, drive organizational design, and own compliance in a high-trust culture, using AI to reduce manual work and focus on people impact.

Qualifications

• Experience coaching leaders and shaping teams in a scale-up or high-growth setting.
• Deep knowledge of Norwegian labour law, employment relations, and local compliance.
• Fluency in both Norwegian and English with strong communication skills.
• Experience with payroll coordination and data privacy (GDPR) practices.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders to design organizational structure, talent, and leadership capabilities.
• Lead as the People presence for Norway, preserving culture while scaling globally.
• Improve the employee lifecycle using engagement data and targeted changes.
• Manage complex employee relations with local regulatory knowledge.
• Modernize People processes with AI and automation while maintaining compliance.

Skills

Leadership

Organizational design

Talent management

Norwegian labour law

English and Norwegian fluency

Payroll coordination

GDPR

Job description

People Lead, Norway at Ardoq

The trusted People Partner and culture carrier who turns Norwegian growth into high-trust, high-performance teams.

The Ardoq story

Ardoq is one of Norway's most exciting scale-ups, a truly global company built out of Oslo. We're 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 ExxonMobil and British Telecom) gain clarity in a changing world. We're 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 help big companies move like small companies. That only works if we run our own house the same way. As People Lead for Norway, you're the person who makes that real on the ground: the trusted partner senior leaders turn to, and the culture carrier who keeps our Oslo roots strong as we scale globally.

This role has deliberately shifted its centre of gravity. It's less about running process for it’s own sake and more about partnering: coaching leaders, shaping how teams are built, and helping people do the best work of their careers. The operational and compliance foundation matters, and you'll own it to a high bar, but as a team, we will increasingly use AI and automation to clear the manual work so your time goes where it counts, with people.

At Ardoq, we value autonomy and psychological safety. You won't follow a script; you'll have the influence to shape your domain and the ownership to see your ideas through.

What you'll do

• Partner with leaders: Act as a trusted People Partner to functional leaders, coaching them on organizational design, talent, and what great leadership looks like.


• Carry the culture: Lead as the People presence for Norway, building community and keeping our Nordic identity strong.


• Raise the employee experience: Use engagement data to improve the employee lifecycle and make targeted changes people actually feel.


• Own complex employee relations: Guide sensitive cases with deep knowledge of Norwegian employment law.


• Modernize the People engine: Use AI and automation to remove manual work and keep our operational and compliance foundation audit-ready, from GDPR to Norwegian labour law.

On a typical day, you will

You might start by coaching a manager through a tricky team restructure, then join a leadership session where your read on engagement data shifts the plan. Before lunch you've pressure-tested a compensation decision against Norwegian norms and flagged a risk the global team hadn't seen. In the afternoon you ship an automation that takes a recurring manual task off the whole team's plate, and you end the day as the person a new joiner feels genuinely welcomed by.

Who you are

You lead with candor and care. You'll say the hard thing kindly, and you balance the needs of local Norwegian employees with global goals without losing either.

• The Partner: You've influenced leaders and steered organizational change, and people come out of those conversations trusting you more, not less.


• The Norway expert: You bring deep, current knowledge of Norwegian labour legislation, trade union relations, and local compliance, and you're fluent in Norwegian and English.


• The operator: You can run compensation, benefits, and payroll coordination when it's needed, and you hold a high bar for data accuracy and GDPR.


• The bold one: You act decisively with incomplete information, and you're driven by outcomes, not effort.

The Ardoq Way

We live by three values, Bold, Caring, and Driven, that define how we work, how we treat each other, and how we win. Take a look at our careers site to learn more

Why Ardoq?

We believe that high performance is powered by wellbeing. You'll have access to a competitive package that supports performance, wellbeing, and long-term success.

• 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, including travel, health, disability and life insurance


• Annual learning budget to support your growth and development


• A hybrid working policy: 2-3 days per week from our Oslo office

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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