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Client Story

Scaling Bakken & Bæck's Product, Design, People, and Commercial Teams.

By taking full ownership of Bakken & Bæck’s recruitment process, our embedded consultants were able to hire a Talent Acquisition Partner, a People Operations Specialist, a Finance Coordinator, two Product Managers, a UX writer, Software Engineers, a Unity Developer, a Spatial Interaction Designer, two Creative Copywriters, and Head of Communications.

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Bakken & Bæck

With offices in Oslo, Amsterdam, Bonn, and London, Bakken & Bæck is a technology-driven digital product development studio that helps ambitious companies elevate their products, brands, and businesses, through end-to-end design solutions. Their tight-knit team of 80+ engineers, designers, and writers explore and implement new modes of interaction that evoke meaningful and inclusive connections between human beings and their technological surroundings. Bakken & Bæck’s work helps ambitious companies identify, explore and respond to new opportunities.

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The Early Stages of the Hiring Process

Bakken & Bæck is a global agency with experience in product, design, consulting - and more recently, growth. As their distributed team continues to grow across Europe, the Bakken & Bæck team needed help filling niche roles with intricate skillsets, as well as building lasting recruitment strategies that streamline the recruitment experience for hiring managers and candidates alike.

Bakken & Bæck turned to Amby to take full ownership of its recruitment process in order for the Head of People Operations to have more time for core responsibilities. Given the unique nature of Bakken & Bæck’s work and the distributed nature of its team, the people team needed a strategic partner who really understood its objectives, culture, domain, and market in order to deliver with both speed and quality. Acting as Bakken & Bæck’s strategic partner, we handled the recruitment process from A-Z across its tech, design, and people team. Since the internal talent team only consisted of a Head of People Operations, it was especially important for them to bring on a Talent Acquisition Partner and a People Operations Coordinators, so that the internal talent function could be set up for success.

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The Process

In order to fully understand Bakken & Bæck as a company, the Amby team initially spent time fully immersing itself into the team to understand the ins-and-outs of the company. This allowed us to set up a hiring roadmap and run recruitment end-to-end at Bakken & Bæck in the most efficient way possible. Essentially, this meant that we were able to start hiring people quickly and identify relevant candidates because we invested in understanding Bakken & Bæck’s domain and market. By fully onboarding ourselves into the company, we not only understood what kind of profiles would not fit, but were able add real value to the Bakken & Bæck team.

We also ensured that Bakken & Bæck had a clear understanding of the way we run recruitment at Amby in order for us to truly work together as partners. with. Once we set the partnership up for success, our focus then shifted ensuring that the most pressing roles were being filled and moved onto the rest of the hiring roadmap with speed and quality at the forefront of our delivery.

Kristine Angeltvedt
↑ Kristine acted as the dedicated project manager responsible for leading the team in quality delivery, overall performance and development in projects.
Amanda Kieding Nicolaysen
↑ Amanda was responsible for attracting and retaining relevant candidates across multiple recruitment processes with both speed and quality.

The Result

Our partnership, commitment to data, and competency-based assessment methods ensured that Bakken & Bæck’s initial key roles - like the Talent Acquisition Partner and People Operations Coordinator - were filled with top candidates. The Amby team worked to provide the best recruitment solutions by sitting down with Bakken & Bæck for job analysis meetings, crafting search strategies, deciding on candidate assessment methods and sourcing passive candidates. By taking full ownership of Bakken & Bæck’s recruitment process, we were able to hire a Talent Acquisition Partner, a People Operations Specialist, a Finance Coordinator, two Product Managers, a UX writer, Software Engineers, a Unity Developer, a Spatial Interaction Designer, two Creative Copywriters, and Head of Communication.

With all of our efforts being channelled into recruitment for Bakken & Bæck, we were able to ensure a positive candidate experience through close and consistent follow-up, and fair and objective decision-making processes. We have also allowed Bakken & Bæck to streamline its recruitment processes by providing the team with a valuable knowledge hub on all things recruitment. This also equips its People Operations team to run recruitment more efficiently moving forward. The new recruitment hub includes things like templates, guides, instructions and other resources that enable both the People team and the hiring managers to scale the Bakken & Bæck team more productively in the future.

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— There's something to be said for the service minded attitude that all of Amby's consultants bring to the table. Since they embed themselves into the company, the vision, the strategy, they really understand where urgencies are coming from and what our needs are, as opposed to someone who operates on the outside.
Palak Bisen Head of People Operations, Bakken & Bæck
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