Skip to content
CV Rocket
Get started
How it worksThe enginePricingBlogContactSign in

Open nowPosted 43 hours ago

Head of Business HR

Reaktor22 open roles

Where
Helsinki
Work mode
Hybrid
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowHead of Business HRReaktor · Helsinki

  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on Reaktor's own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

9.3% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Reaktor postings stay open a median of 16 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 1.8%1 day
  2. 4.0%3 days
  3. 9.3%7 days
  4. 15.6%14 days
  5. 33.9%30 days
This job: posted 43 hours ago

Reaktor median: 16 days open

The posting

WE'RE HIRING A HEAD OF BUSINESS HR TO HELP DEVELOP AND BUILD THE PEOPLE PRACTICES THAT SUPPORT REAKTOR'S NEXT PHASE: A GROWING SOFTWARE PRODUCT BUSINESS ALONGSIDE OUR CORE TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS WORK.

Reaktor is turning a consulting-led technology company into a diversified technology group, with a software product business growing alongside the technology solutions core that has carried us for 25 years. That shift will succeed or stall on people decisions: which leaders we back, how we organise, how we pay, and how talent moves between businesses that make money in different ways. You lead those decisions where they happen, in the business.

We're around 700 people, organised into business portfolios, each with a People Partner. We're raising what that role means: partners who shape how their portfolio grows, organises, and leads, with our operations team handling the operational work. You lead the partners, partner directly with senior business leaders, and build the people model for Reaktor's growing product business.

The role has three parts.

- Lead the partners. You lead, coach, and develop the People Partner team and define what great partnering looks like at Reaktor: partners who come to a business review with a view on capability, cost, and risk, measured by the decisions they shape and the people metrics that move the business.

- Build the people model for product. You lead on writing the playbook for how Reaktor builds, pays, and grows product teams, and partner with our product leadership directly while it takes shape, alongside the People Partner who covers our wider defence and security portfolio.

- Raise the leadership bar. You help us hire, develop and keep leaders who set the standard, and make sure leadership quality shows up in our talent decisions.

Our strategy and where product fits

Our strategy has three parts that reinforce each other. Technology solutions, our consulting business across eight industries from aerospace to healthcare, is our largest business and has a long record of stable profitability. The software product business starts with a defence and security product family sold to NATO members and partners, followed by products that grow out of client work in our other industries, and over time shifts our revenue toward recurring, higher-margin licences. The Reaktor Ecosystem, the founder-led companies we co-found and invest in, extends what we can bring to clients.

Each part runs on different economics, so each needs something different from its people model. Consulting runs on expertise, utilisation and client relationships. Product runs on licence revenue and product milestones. The job is to serve both from one company, with career paths that let people move between consulting and product without losing standing. You write that model and apply it first to our defence and security product.

Where this role sits

You report to the Chief People Officer and sit on the P&C Lead team. P&C deliberately separates partnering from programme design and operations, and that split shapes this role.

- Specialist teams, including Talent Acquisition, Talent Development and Compensation, design the company-wide programmes. You bring the business's needs into them and make sure they land.

- People Operations (which we call HUG) owns process, data and operational service delivery, and relies on your partners for clean decisions on organisation and roles.

Every business portfolio is served by a People Partner and a TA partner. You own how partnership works in the business.

What you'll own

- The People Partner team. You’ll lead and develop a team of four People Partners, set a shared bar for what great partnering looks like at Reaktor, and hold that bar across every portfolio.

- The product people playbook. Roles, organisation, incentives with Compensation and career paths with Talent Development, applied first to our defence and security product.

- Portfolio people plans. A people plan for every portfolio, tied to its business plan: capability, workforce shape, leadership bench and the risks that matter.

- Organisation design and workforce planning. Sound advice on structure, spans and layers, roles and talent mix, with decisions cleanly recorded and implemented.

- Talent, succession and leadership quality. Talent reviews and succession plans for critical roles, and a higher bar for how people lead.

- Employment relations. Partners handle senior-stakeholder cases, and HUG resolves the rest.

- Organisational change and M&A. Partnering the business through any major change processes, with partners acting as leads for their portfolio.

- People insight. AI-generated people packs give partners and leaders a clear read on the people landscape within their teams, so partner time goes to judgement.

How you'll work

- You think commercially. You understand how product and consulting businesses make money, from recurring revenue to utilisation, and frame people decisions in those terms.

- You're straight with leaders. You give senior people the honest read, including the one they didn't want, and bring options with it.

- You lead with judgement. You know the rules well enough to see when a situation needs something better than the policy.

- You’re hands-on. You lead and develop the people partner team while personally partnering with our product leadership.

What success looks like after a year

- Every business portfolio has a people plan tied to its business plan.

- Business leaders bring their People Partner into decisions before they're made.

- The product people playbook is written, agreed, and in use in our DefSec product business.

- Critical roles have succession cover, and talent reviews lead to decisions that get acted on.

- Regretted attrition is baselined, understood by portfolio, and moving the right way.

- The People Partner team is developing and trusted to work without you in the room.

What you'll bring

- Around 12 or more years in HR, with significant experience as a senior HR business partner and leading a team of partners.

- A product background. We're looking for someone who has led HR in a software or technology product company through growth, and understands how product organisations are built, paid and led.

- Enough grasp of consulting economics to partner both sides of the business, or the appetite to learn them quickly.

- Because you'll work with our defence and security product business, security clearance from the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo). With your consent, we start the process with the final candidate before the offer is confirmed.

- Strong experience in organisation design and workforce planning, including through growth, restructuring, or acquisition.

- Knowledge of Finnish employment law and co-determination, and experience handling complex ER cases. International employment experience is a plus.

- Credibility with senior, opinionated experts, and comfort bringing data and AI tools to people decisions.

- Fluent working English, with Finnish a strong advantage.

How we work

Reaktor has been building digital products since 2000, from Helsinki, Turku, Tampere, Seinäjoki, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Tokyo and New York. Our clients range from Delta Air Lines and Epic Games to Adidas and the Finnish Defence Forces. Hierarchy is light, decisions get made by the people closest to the work, and you're expected to use that freedom.

Location

- Our Helsinki office, at least 3 days per week. The rest is flexible.

Applying

Send us a line. You don't need a CV if you don't have one ready, so a LinkedIn profile, a website or a portfolio works fine. We want Reaktor to be a place that values people for the whole of who they are, and we encourage applications from every background. If you meet most of what's above and not all of it, apply anyway. Please apply by Monday 26 October.

From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against Reaktor's own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.

  3. We apply on Reaktor's form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.

  4. Every reply, sorted

    Reaktor's answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.

  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

Get the CV for this job
By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.