We are looking for an operations professional to join the Inventure team to help our portfolio companies with talent/hiring & people management on a strategic level. The role will also include some support to our small but growing investment and operations team.

Location: Stockholm or Helsinki 

The Talent Director will have to split his/her time between a large number of portfolio companies across multiple countries and work on the matters where the impact is the greatest at any given time. A key aspect is to only prioritize strategic elements and not work too tactically with the companies.  Note, this is not a recruiter role. 

Key responsibilities include:

• Work with the portfolio companies on strategic matters when it comes to: 

  • Help with sparring the management teams when setting the structure for how to build the organisation over time including recruitment 

  • Employer branding strategies/support

  • Onboarding/offboarding best practices 

  • ESOP/warrant structures 

  • Helping companies benchmark best practices when it comes to hiring in various stages 

  • Diversity & inclusion initiatives across the portfolio

• Support the partners group with internal hiring/team management practices in the following areas: 

  • Help with structure for future hires

  • Career planning and goal setting for the team members 

  • Helping us with the entire operations setup and helping us become a world-class fund when it comes to operational support together with our Platform Manager as well as the rest of the team

Requirements

• Extensive understanding and experience of, and passion for, talent and people management in fast growing companies

• Experience from fast-growing startups/tech companies is a must

• The right candidate probably has around 5-10 years of experience in the talent/people management or recruitment space 

• We think that you are more business focused rather than classic HR/recruitment focused. The optimal candidate is a business-first individual who believes that the best way to get business results are through selecting and engaging the right people 

• Linear or non-linear career pattern that brought you to recruitment/talent management role 

• Ideally an existing network and connections to the European and/or Nordic startup ecosystem

• Undergraduate degree from a top tier university a plus

• Nordic language skills are a plus

• Excellent communicator with ability to articulate ideas accurately and concisely

Apply as soon as you can as we’ll start interviewing as soon as possible.