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Lead Performance Psychologist

Join our mission to build a psychologically sustainable future where taking care of your mind is as normal as taking care of your body is.

We're looking for a Lead Performance Psychologist to join our team. The application period ends on the 18th of December.

Salla Ibrahim
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‍salla@laavu.io

Lead Performance Psychologist

Are you an experienced psychologist with a growth mindset who’s ready to join a company that’s far from your typical psychology house? Does coaching executives, leading your own team, and rolling up your sleeves in sales excite you? Perfect, then keep on reading!

Laavu is a growing company providing psychological coaching for entrepreneurs and business leaders. Our mission is to create a new norm in which taking care of your mind would be just as normal as taking care of your body is. Our vision is to become an indispensable companion to every growth-minded company in Europe.

What we have to offer?

  • A key leadership role in a mission-driven, fast-growing company committed to psychological performance and sustainability.
  • The chance to impact the future of Laavu’s growth and development.
  • A warm, collaborative, and ambitious team with a low-hierarchy culture.
  • Opportunity to both do high-impact client work and lead a motivated, high-performing team
  • Modern workspace in Helsinki city center with a strong sense of community.
  • Salary 5000-5400€ month
  • Lunch/sports/well-being benefit of 100 € / month.
  • Opportunity and support to grow within one of the most ambitious companies in the psychology field.
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Main Responsibilities

As a Lead Performance Psychologist, you’ll be right at the heart of the action: coaching your own clients while leading a team of 6–10 performance psychologists. You’ll keep the team inspired through regular 1:1s, setting clear, energising goals, and creating a high-trust, growth-driven environment where people genuinely thrive. And because great leaders stay close to the craft, you’ll also coach around 16 bi-weekly clients (about 8 hours a week), keeping your skills sharp and your impact immediate.

With full P&L responsibility, you won’t just talk about growth, you’ll be hands-on in making it happen. Through multi-channel outreach, outbound sales, and booking introduction sessions, you’ll build your own client base while ensuring your team hits their client and invoicing targets.

This role is ideal for an experienced organisational psychologist with strong coaching skills, a people-first leadership style, and a willingness to roll up their sleeves to grow the business.

  • Deliver coaching to 16 individual bi-weekly clients approximately 8h/week
  • Have regular 1:1s with the team, wellbeing check-ins, ensuring team well-being and engagement
  • Set invoicing/sales goals, and ensure the team meets client targets and maintain profitability.
  • Participate in recruitment and onboarding of new psychologists, growing the team over time to meet demand.
  • Communicate company direction, goals and culture to the team; maintain two-way communication, creating a psychologically safe, high-trust environment aligned with Laavu’s values.
  • Be strongly hands-on in sales and building your own client base by multi-channel sales, and supporting the team to meet their client targets.
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What would make you a perfect fit?

  • Master’s in Psychology and +6 years of experience in work & organisational psychology
  • Coaching experience and strong coaching skills
  • Leadership experience and approach aligned with Laavu’s values:
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    You are ambitious and hungry. You push both yourself and your team toward their best, set clear goals, and celebrate milestones.

    You naturally create connection and collaboration. For you, the team’s success beats any solo victory.

    You lead with authenticity. Your empathy builds trust and fosters an environment where people feel safe to show up as their true selves.

    You take the work seriously, but not yourself. Even when things get challenging, you appreciate moments of humour that help everyone breathe.

    You act consistently, follow through on commitments, treat all people with respect and equality.
  • Sales / business development experience: thriving in multi-channel outreach. Resilience in approaching potential clients.
  • Interest in growth company environment, and ability to navigate in a fast-growing, dynamic culture.
  • Excellent communicator in English and Finnish.
  • High level of self-reflection, comfortable with feedback, committed to personal growth and development.

Join Our Team of Professionals

No need for lengthy CVs and Cover Letters. Apply by dropping your contact information in the form below and answer couple of questions.

Why Laavu?

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Culture

We are extremely proud of our culture (as if that isn’t something any company would say). Laavu is filled with warm, real, and ambitious people. We are not afraid to have difficult conversations, admit our mistakes or show our vulnerabilities. We are not big on the hierarchy as we believe everyone knows how to do their job best. However, we’re always there for each other.

We could write an essay on how amazing we are and how much fun we have together (you wouldn’t believe it anyway), but the best way is to see it yourself – so just call one of us or come visit our office!

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Growth

Growth is at the very center of our operations and culture. We believe for Laavu to grow, we need our employees to grow as well. That’s why each employee starts with an extensive onboarding before working with clients. In addition to growing by coaching our bright and demanding clients, as a psychologist, you also get to develop yourself in weekly steering meetings, 1on1s, and training sessions. Also, our psychologists have versatile tasks that go beyond the work of a traditional psychologist.

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Clients

Laavu’s client base is unique. It consist of founders, CEOs, and other high-performing individuals. They are very motivated to challenge themselves and work towards their goal. Working with them, you get to immerse yourself in meaningful conversations with amazingly bright people, which is a great opportunity to learn new things and get new perspectives. Typically, you get to work with each client for more than 6 months which makes it possible to build meaningful relationships and work on complex topics.

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Compensation

And did we mention that you also get paid for doing this? Compensation covers a monthly salary of 3 800€ - 4 600€ and employee benefits (a laptop, a phone + Epassi).

Are you interested in being a freelancer? Read more from the FAQ on the bottom of the page.

Our recruitment process

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A Coffee Chat (~20 min)

We will call you to explore your background and career interests.  We'll also give you an overview of what working at Laavu is like and answer any questions you have. The aim is to see if we're a good match for each other.

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Competence interview
(1.5h)

A face-to-face discussion on your motivation, leadership style and competencies at our office in Hakaniemi. And it’s not just us asking the questions. We encourage you to challenge us with your questions regarding the position and working at Laavu.

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Demo Coaching (1.5h)

In this phase, your technical coaching skills are certainly important, but what stands out even more is your capacity for self-reflection and your willingness to engage in constructive feedback discussions. This deeper level of engagement helps us see your commitment to growth and continuous improvement.

Here's an overview of the recruitment process for the position.
Our intention is to conclude the process and reach a decision by the end of January 2026.