Senior HR Business Partner at Oura

Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles. Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office. We are looking for a Senior HR Business Partner to join our People Team. This is a Oulu, Finland-based role that involves regular interaction and collaboration with Oura colleagues in Finland, across the US and more. In this role you are the HR partner and HR operations expert for Finland+. You will: • Act as a trusted strategic advisor to leaders, managers, and employees in Finland and across global functions. • Own and improve HR operational processes for Finland+ (Finland and selected geographies / EOR arrangements). • Serve as the country subject-matter expert for Finnish employment practices, ensuring people programs, systems, and processes are compliant and scalable. • Act as the link between our Finnish employee base and global People programs, bringing local insights into global design and ensuring high-quality execution. This role is ideal for a senior HR professional with deep Finnish HR and labor law expertise, strong HRBP experience, international exposure, and a hands-on, process-minded approach. • Travel: Occasional travel within Finland for team gatherings and collaboration. Occasional travel to the US (once or twice a year) is also required. • Time zones: We have regular meetings to accommodate collaboration with Oura colleagues in the US (US Pacific Time Zone, 10 hours behind the Eastern European Time Zone), Usually our global meeting are organized between the hours of 5 PM and 8PM. What You Will Do • Strategic people partnership: Advise leaders on organizational design, talent, performance, compensation, and employee relations, helping teams navigate change and make sound, and balanced people-business decisions. • Business acumen & organizational effectiveness: Combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution to design and deliver people solutions, using data and insight to anticipate and address people-related risks and challenges. • HR operations for Finland+: Together with the team continuously improve end-to-end HR lifecycle processes (on/offboarding, job and compensation changes, internal mobility) and localized SOPs and templates, ensuring compliance with Finnish labor law and alignment with global standards. • Compliance & employee relations: Support continuous dialogue practices and act as the primary escalation point for complex employee cases in Finland, interpreting and applying Finnish employment and labor law and partnering with Legal and global peers to manage risk across countries. • Talent, performance & development: Facilitate performance management, calibration, and talent reviews, and connect Finland to global L&D and growth opportunities. • Data, systems & insights: Safeguard HR data quality, contribute to HRIS and tools projects, and use data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities. • Culture, teamwork & coaching: Role-model a strong team-first mentality in the Finland People team and with global HR peers; coach managers, share knowledge generously, and help build a collaborative, inclusive culture that reflects Oura’s values. What You’ll Bring / Requirements • Education: Bachelor’s degree in HR, business, law, or related field, or equivalent practical experience. A Master’s, MBA, or HR certification is a plus. • Experience: • 7–10+ years of progressive experience as an HR Business Partner and/or HR Operations expert in growing, global or multi-site organizations. • Demonstrated impact operating at a senior/expert level, leading complex, cross-functional people initiatives. • Functional expertise: • Expert-level, hands-on knowledge of Finnish employment and labor law, including collective agreements, co-operation and continuous dialogue requirements, working time rules, statutory benefits, holiday accrual/pay, GDPR in the HR context, and core payroll processes. • Experience interpreting and applying labor law in complex situations (e.g., reorganizations, terminations, co-operation procedures, cross-border arrangements) and translating legal requirements into practical guidance for leaders. • Proven experience owning and improving HR lifecycle processes and documentation (SOPs, templates, policies). • Strong understanding of core HR domains: organizational design, talent and performance management, compensation, and change management, including in an international context. • Systems & process mindset: • Experience with HRIS platforms (e.g., Workday, HiBob, BambooHR or similar) and related tools. • Ability to document, standardize, and improve processes, and contribute to HRIS implementation or optimization. • Analytics & problem-solving: • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, able to interpret data, identify patterns, and turn insights into concrete actions. • Comfortable making decisions in ambiguous, fast-changing environments, balancing legal, business, and people considerations. • Collaboration & communication: • Excellent communication skills in Finnish and English, written and verbal. • Proven ability to influence and collaborate with senior leaders, managers, employees, and global stakeholders, often without formal authority. • Ways of working & mindset: • Experience in a high-growth, fast-paced, mixed office/remote environment, ideally in tech, health tech, or a similar domain. • Willingness to roll up your sleeves and handle both strategic topics and hands-on execution. • Proactive, positive attitude and a genuine passion for health, wellbeing, and Oura’s mission. Nice to Have • Experience implementing compensation and equity programs in a private company context. • Prior involvement in HRIS implementation projects • Experience supporting employees in other European/Asian countries or through EOR models. What we have to offer At Oura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Oura has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health. • Exciting and fast paced international environment in a growth company • Supportive team • Competitive Salary • Flexible working hours • Enhanced occupational health care • Lunch benefit • Wellness benefit • Personal Oura Ring plus lifetime membership • Friends & Family discount code If this sounds like the next step for you, please send us your application and CV by April 13th. We aim to start interviewing as soon as suitable candidates are found. Oura is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. 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