Operating Partner

London, England, United Kingdom

7/21/2025

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.