CAREERS / OPTALE

Show your work.

Optale is a small Norwegian operator team. We don't post roles on a cadence. We hire when we meet the right operator and the work is there. The bar is what you've shipped, not what you've claimed.

HIRING · WHEN THE WORK IS THERE

Who we hire.

04 · ARCHETYPES
OPERATOR

Domain operator with regulated-sector reps.

You've run finance, public, energy, healthcare or industrial operations and you know what audit-grade looks like in practice.

DOMAIN ADVISOR

Named sector advisor.

You've spent a long career inside one regulated sector (public, finance, energy or health) and your name carries weight there. You join engagements where deep credibility matters. Fractional, named, accountable.

ENGINEER

Shipped AI in production.

You've built systems where humans depend on the output. You know the gap between that and a demo deck.

GENERALIST

End-to-end builder.

You can run a Bridge sprint without six layers of approval. You write, you ship, you talk to the customer.

What we weigh.

05 · DIMENSIONS

We don't read CVs. Formal education and titles aren't filters. The signal is concrete and lives in five places.

TRACK RECORDWhat you've shipped in production that someone depended on.
GRITHow you handled the failure that taught you the most.
AI FLUENCYHands-on depth with agents, evals and models built into real systems.
OPERATOR MINDSETOwnership, customer-face, comfort with ambiguity.
DOMAIN REPSYears inside the sectors we run with, when relevant.

How we hire.

05 · STEPS
  1. STEP · 01

    Send work.

    Repos, deploys, write-ups, decks, anything that shows what you've actually shipped. Plus a line on what you'd want to own here.

  2. STEP · 02

    We respond inside 5 business days.

    If the work doesn't land, we say so directly. If it does, we set up a conversation.

  3. STEP · 03

    Conversation.

    Sixty minutes on the work, the operating layer, what you'd build. No whiteboard puzzles.

  4. STEP · 04

    Paid trial, one to two weeks.

    We work together on something real. You see how we operate. We see how you operate.

  5. STEP · 05

    Both sides decide.

    If the trial lands, we offer. If it doesn't, you keep the pay and the work.

What you can expect.

BASELINE
BASERemote-first. Norway and EU time-zone overlap.
LANGUAGESBokmål and English equally first class.
EQUITYAvailable for full-time hires.
CADENCEShip to production in weeks.
PROCESSNo daily standups. No Jira theatre.
§ APPLY

Send work to careers@optale.com.

Subject line: what you'd want to own. Body: a few links to the work, and a paragraph on why Optale specifically. We read everything and respond within 5 business days.

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