About the role

As the Expansion Lead, you will play a key role in expanding the Norrsken mission and geographical footprint by project leading the launch and opening of new Norrsken Houses. From evaluating new markets and conducting research to developing the business cases and proposals required for funding, you’ll navigate between high-end strategic thinking and operational hands-on work.

Additionally, you’ll manage the Norrsken Expansion Blueprint to ensure a standardized and effective framework/“backbone” for our global growth. In this role, you’ll collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders both internally and externally, and become the go-to-person for guidance, expertise and know-how on how to turn a concept into a global movement.


This role reports to the Head of Expansion & Strategic Initiatives and is based out of Norrsken House Stockholm.

Key responsibilities (but not limited to):

• Drive end-to-end project management of Norrsken House expansions (from exploration to opening), leading and overseeing budget, real estate fit out, stakeholder relationships and collaboration required to deliver on timelines and milestones (including legal, leasing, and design), until a local managing director has been onboarded.

• Complete ecosystem assessments for new market entries, shaping the local ecosystem overview and what Norrsken can contribute with in the local ecosystem that isn’t currently satisfied.

• Support on real estate sourcing and fundraising for new houses by activating network to engage in selective introductory dialogues and engaging with local stakeholders and potential co-founders.

• Lead local onboarding, managing the integration of new team members in each new location.

• Continuously develop and manage the Expansion Blueprint, maintaining all essential documents (e.g., timelines, milestones, contracts, business case, budgets, recruitment profiles, and property criteria) based on completed work and learnings from previous expansions.

• Selectively lead prioritized strategic initiatives by owning the end-to-end planning and execution of selected initiatives

Who you are

• You are a self-starter, execution-oriented person with a forward-leaning ‘can-do’ attitude. More than anything, you want to be part of making the world a better place.

• You have relevant international experience and have an open-minded character.

• As you will manage multiple initiatives and stakeholders in parallel, it’s important that you are structured, organized with solid project management skills.

• You are a logical, strategic thinker with a problem solving attitude.

• You have solid stakeholder management skills, are naturally curious, find energy in creative, meaningful and strategic interaction with others, while navigating such dialogues in a dynamic way.

• You are accountable for your work and make sure to go the extra mile to ensure we deliver at the highest standards.

• You embody a high level of professionalism, with exceptional interpersonal and communication skills. You can effortlessly engage with stakeholders at all levels of the organization in a respectful, mature and approachable manner.

• You enjoy rolling up your sleeves and you have a hands-on approach in your way of working.

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant work experience from e.g., management consulting, start-up/scale-up operations, real estate/proptech expansion or equivalent.

• Openness to international travel – both short exploratory trips (days) and longer site stays (months) during launch phases.

• English (working proficiency), additional languages are a plus.

Working at Norrsken

A job at Norrsken is like working at a startup. It’s a fast-paced and exciting place to work. Tasks and challenges will be demanding, responsibilities and priorities will change and shift, but we guarantee that in return we will fast-forward your personal and professional development. And, you’ll get to work in a team of caring people with deep passion and equally as high ambitions. Ten years from now, you will be proud of the projects and ideas you developed and acted on together.

We believe in radical transparency and aim to honour this in our recruitment processes. For more perspective on what it’s like to work at Norrsken, read our Employee Value Proposition here and Culture Foundation here.

What we offer you

• The position will be based in Stockholm and will require traveling.

• The salary level for this position is 50,000 SEK, 7 weeks of vacation, health benefits, pension, parental top up and relevant insurance, as well as the potential opportunity to invest in Norrsken’s funds.

We will review applications on an ongoing basis so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The target start date is December 2026.