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understanding their careers, ambitions and views on the market.\nOver time, we want OakNorth to be one of the first calls exceptional lending professionals make when they're thinking about their careers.\nTurn Intelligence Into Business Insight\nYou'll turn what you're seeing in the market into useful intelligence for our leadership team.\nThat could include:\nTalent and competitor heatmaps\n\nTeam and leadership movements\n\nCompensation intelligence\n\nEmerging talent\n\nCompetitor hiring activity\n\nNew market entrants\n\nTeam stability and succession risk\n\nGeographic talent pools\n\nMarket opportunities\n\nThe goal isn't research for the sake of research.\nYour insight should help OakNorth make better decisions about where, when and who we hire.\nBuild Our Talent Intelligence Platform\nYou'll use Ashby as our Talent CRM and create a living picture of the US lending talent market.\nYou'll build and maintain:\nTalent communities\n\nExecutive relationships\n\nCompetitor maps\n\nMarket intelligence\n\nFuture hiring pipelines\n\nRelationship history\n\nTalent dashboards\n\nYou'll help us move from traditional recruiting pipelines towards a long-term talent ecosystem.\nExperiment With AI\nWe want to rethink how talent intelligence is built.\nYou'll experiment with AI and emerging technology to improve research, market mapping, relationship management, workflow automation and reporting.\nYou'll have the freedom to test new approaches rather than simply follow an established recruiting playbook.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nWithin your first year, we want you to have built a talent intelligence capability that our US Lending leaders actively use to make decisions.\nWe should have:\nA clear map of the most important firms, teams and talent across our priority lending markets\n\nStrong relationships with exceptional people before vacancies exist\n\nLive intelligence on competitor teams and market movements\n\nHigh-quality future talent pipelines\n\nBetter visibility of compensation and talent trends\n\nA growing network of emerging and established lending leaders\n\nAn Ashby Talent CRM that contains genuinely valuable market intelligence\n\nMost importantly, when we decide to enter a market, build a team or make a critical hire, we should already know who we want to speak to.\nWho We're Looking For\nWe're deliberately open-minded about where you've built your career.\nYou might currently work in:\nExecutive search\n\nTalent intelligence or strategic sourcing\n\nCommercial banking or private credit\n\nLending-focused research or market intelligence\n\nStrategy or competitive intelligence\n\nAnother environment where you've developed deep knowledge of the US lending market\n\nWe're more interested in how you think and operate than whether you've previously held this exact title.\nYou'll likely be someone who:\nUnderstands the US commercial lending landscape and can quickly build credibility with senior professionals\n\nLoves researching markets and finding people others miss\n\nIs naturally curious about firms, teams, deals and people\n\nBuilds relationships without needing an immediate transaction\n\nCan turn fragmented market information into useful commercial insight\n\nIs comfortable speaking with senior executives\n\nHas a strong hunter mentality and isn't reliant on inbound applications\n\nEnjoys building something from scratch\n\nUses technology and AI to work smarter and move faster\n\nHas an entrepreneurial mindset and strong bias for action\n\nAn existing network across US lending would be valuable, but the ability to build one is just as important.\nWhy OakNorth?\nOakNorth was founded by entrepreneurs to help ambitious businesses scale.\nSince launching in 2015, we've built one of the UK's leading commercial banks and are now building the next chapter of OakNorth in the United States.\nThis role gives you something unusual: the opportunity to create a talent intelligence capability from scratch and work directly with the leaders building our US lending business.\nThere isn't an established playbook to inherit.\nYou'll help write it.\nBenefits and Perks\n401k plan with Principal (ON match up to 4%)\n\nMedical Care (managed through Insperity) - 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