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Neko Health is a Swedish healthcare technology company founded in 2018, headquartered in Stockholm and New York. The company is redefining preventative care through proprietary technology that delivers personalized health insights in a single, non-invasive visit under an hour. Neko is shifting healthcare from reactive treatment to proactive prevention, with a mission to make data-driven preventative care accessible before symptoms appear.
This is a senior People Partner role leading the people function for Commercial, Creative, Marketing, Corporate Communications, and Public Affairs—functions currently in build or scale phase with no established internal playbook. This is one of the most senior People roles at HQ outside the Global People Lead.
You will own workforce planning and organizational design for these five functions, designing structures, leveling frameworks, and operating models tailored to their needs as they grow. You'll build a fully resourced, clearly structured function ahead of permanent leadership arrives, enabling them to lead from day one.
You'll serve as the primary strategic partner to Commercial, Creative, Marketing, Corporate Communications, and Public Affairs leadership teams, translating business strategy into people priorities and programs. You'll coach and challenge leaders on organizational decisions, bringing genuine build and scale-up expertise to functions still forming.
You'll champion Neko's cultural Vitals by partnering with leaders to embed them into day-to-day operations, translating them into practical behaviors and decisions, and building rituals and feedback loops that keep culture genuinely lived as these functions scale.
You'll drive talent management for leaders in partnership with the Growth & Engagement team, advising on compensation, mobility, and promotions to ensure internal equity and market competitiveness. You'll lead change initiatives affecting these functions' structures, owning scope, timeline, stakeholder engagement, and change readiness end-to-end. You'll manage complex employee relations matters, coordinating with Legal and People colleagues, and spot strain or risk early—particularly around brand and reputation-sensitive teams where people decisions carry public visibility.
You'll apply deep operating-model and organization-design expertise built specifically for brand-driven, externally facing functions. You'll deliver people analytics and actionable insights that turn data into decision-ready recommendations. You'll work with the Global People Lead on what "built well" looks like for a function with no established precedent at Neko. You'll evaluate how AI informs talent decisions and org design, bringing judgment to design with AI as a genuine participant in how roles and structures should look.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Deep, hands-on experience across organizational design, operating model design, and workforce planning, built specifically through standing up or scaling a function from an early stage
- Track record of building or scaling a function from the ground up, ideally within marketing, creative, communications, or another brand-driven, externally facing domain
- Experience owning leadership development and performance calibration outcomes for a senior leadership population
- Track record of personally leading change initiatives end-to-end: scope, timeline, and stakeholder engagement
- Genuine passion for culture and values, with experience helping leaders embed them into how their teams actually work
- Demonstrable experience in senior HR Business Partner, People Partner, or People/HR leadership roles at Director level or above
- Track record of partnering with and influencing senior functional leaders on complex, high-stakes organizational decisions, operating with genuine autonomy as an independent decision-maker
- Fluent with people data and actively using AI in your own work
- Working knowledge of employment law relevant to creative and marketing talent markets, with the judgment to know when to bring in specialist expertise
