Do you want to help some awesome companies build their future?

Merknad til norske søkere: denne stillingen er fast ansettelse på lokal kontrakt i San Francisco, og forutsetter arbeidsvisum og fast bosted i USA.

Innovation Norway San Francisco and Silicon Valley seeks a driven and effective team member to support Norwegian companies—especially early-stage and scaling SMEs—with partnerships, sales, investor outreach, and business development. We are a government-owned agency working to increase value creation in Norway. Learn more about our mission here: innovasjonnorge.no/en/start-page/about/our-mission/

With teams across Norway and in more than 20 countries worldwide, we give local ideas global opportunities. From offices in San Francisco and Palo Alto, we connect Norwegian companies to the U.S. ecosystem and support U.S. companies entering Norway.
We focus on areas where Norway has an edge, offering insights, networks, and strategic advice to help companies grow and scale internationally.

The role and responsibilities:

• Assist Norwegian companies entering North America.

• Support companies in all aspects of sales.

• Provide professional advice to our clients and play a key role in supporting the development and implementation of their export priorities.

• Proactively engage to identify and promote export opportunities and effectively build strong relationships with key partners nationally and internationally.

• Accommodate and train Norwegian executives through Innovation Norway’s global competence programmes.

• Facilitate impactful business conferences, networking events and executive visiting programmes.

• Actively contribute to driving a culture of collaboration and high performance empowering Norwegian businesses in existing and future prioritized sectors.

• Provide market updates, collecting and leveraging data.
  

Key competencies and personal skills:

• Master’s degree within technology or business.

• Knowledge of relevant industries and businesses (please elaborate on area of expertise), and evidence of the ability to deliver client impact within allocated budgets, i.e. from management consultancy.

• Significant understanding of the commercial drivers of trade and investment.

• Experience and proven results from Sales or Business Development/Consulting.

• Minimum four years of working experience.

• Well-developed sensitivity to secure confidence of clients and key stakeholders, and the resilience to operate in a highly competitive business culture and under sustained pressure.

• Fluency in English is required; proficiency in a Scandinavian language is an advantage.
  

Desired personal skills:

• Result driven individual encouraging high levels of performance to deliver impact.

• Strong communicator and good interpersonal skills.

• Capable of establishing connections within new industries.

• Dedicated team player with a pay-it-forward attitude.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Proactive, able to produce results and manage own time in an effective manner.
The role will include some travelling and requires a valid work permit in the US.

Work location will be San Francisco with occasional work from Palo Alto, and is a local position with local employment terms and conditions.

Only applications received electronically through the application link will be taken into consideration.

Contact: Jon Olsen (jon.olsen at innovationnorway.no).

Application deadline: October 19th, 2025.

Why work at Innovation Norway? This position offers you the opportunity to develop your national and international network—both internally, through our offices in every county in Norway, and globally, with presence in over 20 countries around the world. We are committed to professional development and have allocated 40 hours annually for each employee to enhance their expertise. We are a dynamic and innovative organization that places great emphasis on creating an inclusive environment where everyone can be themselves and thrive in their roles. We offer flexible working hours and the possibility of partial remote work.

Innovation Norway is committed to diversity. We seek employees with a variety of competencies, perspectives, ages, genders, and life experiences. Diversity is important to both our working environment and the tasks we aim to accomplish. Innovation Norway may conduct background checks on relevant candidates to verify documents and information, and to assess security-related matters. Candidates selected for further consideration will receive additional information about this process. Furthermore, applicants should be prepared to provide information regarding ties to high-risk countries as part of a security assessment.