We’re looking for a high-calibre Operating Partner to work shoulder-to-shoulder with OakNorth’s Co-Founder & CEO and Executive Leadership Team. This is a hands-on, high-impact role designed for a strategic operator and business builder—someone who thrives on complexity, drives with urgency, and has the horsepower to turn bold vision into tangible results.
You will take ownership of mission-critical initiatives, build and lead high-performing cross-functional teams, and deliver business value through the design, optimisation, and execution of scalable strategies, products, and operating models.
This is not a theoretical or advisory role—you’ll be in the arena, proactively solving problems, leading change, and accelerating OakNorth’s growth and impact.
What You’ll Do:
- Drive Strategy Into Execution
- Translate CEO-level priorities into measurable, high-impact initiatives.
- Lead end-to-end delivery of strategic projects across functions and geographies.
- Step into ambiguous spaces to create clarity, drive momentum, and land results.
- Identify, assess, and action new revenue and growth opportunities.
- Build Operating Leverage
- Architect and refine company OKRs, performance KPIs, dashboards, and reporting rhythms.
- Design and scale high-efficiency business processes and systems across verticals.
- Build cross-functional operating muscle where gaps or bottlenecks exist.
- Drive the adoption of modern, tech-enabled ways of working, with a strong focus on leveraging GenAI, automation, and process optimisation to enhance efficiency and scalability.
- Accelerate Organisational Performance
- Own or turn around strategic verticals, functions, or special projects.
- Hire, lead, and mentor high-performing teams; inspire excellence and accountability.
- Improve how the Executive team functions: decision-making, planning, and alignment.
- Serve as an extension of the CEO in key forums—internal and external.
- Partner at the Highest Level
- Be a thought partner to the CEO and Execs, offering challenge and support in equal measure.
- With the CEO and Executive team, a scalable operating rhythm across the company, enabling alignment and execution at pace. Bring structure and accountability to cross-functional initiatives. Identify blind spots, dive in and problem solve
- Filter and focus CEO input to ensure highest-leverage impact of their time and energy.
What you will need:
- 8+ years’ experience in a top-tier strategy consultancy, investment bank, private equity firm, or hyper-growth tech/fintech environment.
- Strong academic background in mathematics, STEM, Economics, or a similarly rigorous and highly numerate field; must be highly numerate. MBA or equivalent experience preferred
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, strong commercial acumen, and relentless bias for action.
- Deep analytical ability—comfortable with financial models, dashboards, and data-led decision making.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a knack for influencing across all levels.
You’ll Thrive Here If You Are…
- Impact-Driven: You focus on outcomes, not activity. You’re known for shipping, landing, and scaling meaningful results.
- Analytical & Insightful: You interrogate data deeply and challenge assumptions thoughtfully.
- Strategic & Systems-Oriented: You see the big picture, spot patterns, and architect elegant solutions.
- Emotionally Intelligent: You work across stakeholders and functions with humility, empathy, and influence.
- Hands-On: You roll up your sleeves and get stuck into the detail when needed—no task is too small.
- Adaptable & Resilient: You thrive in ambiguity and rebound quickly from setbacks.
- Growth-Minded: You’re constantly learning, evolving, and pushing boundaries for yourself and others.