Executive Business Partner

ROLE HIGHLIGHTS: - Executive Business Partner - Location: Lisbon, Portugal - Department: CEO Office - Reports to: CEO of ICEYE Portugal - Employment type: Permanent - Workplace model: Hybrid - Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO, where required) WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS: You are the operating engine of ICEYE Portugal's Center of Excellence. As the company builds its Lisbon base for sovereign intelligence from space, someone has to make the organisation run: set the rhythm, keep decisions moving, and make sure the things we commit to actually happen. That is this role. Working directly alongside the CEO, you run the operating cadence across every CoE function: engineering, sales, marketing, the HR and finance business partners, and legal. You turn a fast, ambitious agenda into structured execution, meetings that produce decisions, decisions that produce action, and action that gets followed through to closure. You keep momentum high while the organisation scales. This is also a growth path. The role is scoped today at Executive Business Partner level: an individual contributor with no direct reports. It is explicitly designed to grow into Chief of Staff for ICEYE Portugal as you build trust, take on more of the CEO's agenda, and prove you can own the operating system of the company. We are hiring someone who wants that trajectory. WHO WE ARE ICEYE is the world leader in sovereign intelligence from space. We deliver persistent monitoring capabilities to detect and respond to changes in any location on Earth. ICEYE owns the world's largest and most advanced SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite constellation. To our customers we provide intelligence with unmatched quality, latency and revisit times, in any weather, day or night. To governments who choose to operate their own constellation we provide this proven capability as a sovereign system. ICEYE-built constellations serve customers in defence and intelligence, environmental monitoring, insurance and emergency management. We enable fast decisions that contribute to a safer future. Founded and headquartered in Finland, ICEYE operates globally with over 1000 employees across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. YOUR DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILITIES OPERATING RHYTHM AND CADENCE - Design and run the CoE's operating rhythm: leadership meetings, staff meetings, business reviews, planning cycles and offsites, with clear agendas, pre-reads and outcomes. - Protect the CEO's time and focus; help shape priorities, prepare for key engagements, and make sure the week is spent on what matters most. DECISION TRACKING AND FOLLOW-THROUGH - Capture decisions and action items across the CoE and hold them to closure, keeping a single, trusted source of truth on what was decided and who owns it. - Chase progress across functions without waiting to be asked; surface blockers early and keep senior stakeholders accountable to their commitments. CROSS-FUNCTIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT - Run initiatives that cut across engineering, sales, marketing, HR/finance and legal, keeping timelines, dependencies and owners visible. - Bring structure to ambiguity: take a loosely defined goal and turn it into a plan, a cadence and a result. INSTITUTIONAL AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT - Support the CEO's engagement with government and institutional stakeholders (ministries, defence, civil protection, ecosystem and industry partners): prepare briefings and materials, coordinate meetings, and track follow-ups. - Represent the CEO office with professionalism and discretion in a sovereign, security-sensitive context. ORGANISATIONAL MOMENTUM AND SCALE - Build the operating system of a growing organisation: the rituals, tooling and reporting that let ICEYE Portugal move fast without losing rigour. - Draft internal communications, leadership updates and board or investor materials on behalf of the CEO office. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR Must haves: - 6 to 10 years in a demanding operat…