Careers

We are not looking for executors.We look for people able toown what they decide.

Northbound works on problems that arrive without a finished brief, cut across business and technology, and matter to whoever is in charge.

That is why our team is small, senior and close to the decision.

Who we are

An executive advisory house

We work where business, product, technology, data, AI and finance meet. We do not hire people to fill capacity: we build teams around the problems we take on.

Here, seniority means understanding context, forming an opinion, defending it and owning the outcome.

How we work
01

Context before solution

Understanding the business comes first. Tooling is a consequence.

02

Clarity over volume

We do not measure work by the number of deliverables.

03

Autonomy with accountability

You get room to decide and responsibility for the outcome.

04

Disagreement is part of the job

We expect better arguments, not agreement.

Areas where we look for excellence
  • Product and discovery with business maturity
  • Data and applied AI, focused on real usage
  • Engineering and architecture at operational scale
  • Consulting and complex project leadership
  • Finance, governance and risk reading
  • Enablement and team development
You probably fit if…
  • you can navigate problems with no ready answer
  • you talk to the business without hiding behind your specialty
  • you know how to disagree with an argument
  • you prefer responsibility over bureaucracy
  • you can move from strategy into execution
  • you do not need micromanagement to deliver
What you find here

Few layers

You work directly with those who lead Northbound and with the client's decision-makers.

Problems that matter

The work exists because a relevant decision has to be made.

Experienced peers

We expect seniority and we put seniority around you.

Real autonomy

Less control over how you work. More accountability for the outcome.

Maybe this is not for you

Maybe this is not for you.

If you need a fully defined scope before starting, prefer receiving decisions over making them, or measure seniority by the size of the team you lead, there are probably better places for you.

Here we expect autonomy, repertoire, judgement and responsibility for what happens after the recommendation.

Hiring process

Our process tries to look like the work.

1

Application

Through LinkedIn, on the open role.

2

Conversation

Context, background and expectations.

3

Real case

A discussion on a problem close to our daily work.

4

Partners conversation + offer

Ways of working, scope, compensation and start date.

Open roles live on our LinkedIn page.

If nothing is listed there, we are not hiring at the moment.