Careers
Working at Novo Holdings
Why join Novo Holdings?
You will be part of a high-performing team where your growth and learning are catalysed by committed colleagues and influenced by a significant deal flow.
You will contribute to a collaborative work culture where your opinion is valued, and where we celebrate individuals of all backgrounds, orientations, and identities.
Explore a career with our Investment Teams
We invest in the future
Our high-performing culture underpins everything we do, ensuring that our investments not only deliver solid returns but also contribute to a better future through our focus on human and planetary health. Novo Holdings’ legacy, fund structure, and strong balance sheet provide us with advantages in deal sourcing and holding periods, offering unmatched downside protection across all economic cycles. Additionally, our unique ecosystem—built on in-house life sciences expertise and an unparalleled external network—drives our competitive edge. This distinctive approach enables us to achieve outperforming financial results while fostering unique learning opportunities.
Career development & growth opportunities
At Novo Holdings we offer formal as well as informal development opportunities at all stages of the career journey. Our formal development opportunities include mentoring programmes, peer-group trainings and employee transfer experiences, where employees get a chance to work temporarily from one of our offices abroad to build a network and strengthen ways of working. We currently have offices in Copenhagen (HQ), London, Boston, San Francisco, Singapore and Shanghai.
“The people at Novo Holdings truly set it apart. Being surrounded by smart, driven, and down-to-earth team members inspires everyone to excel while also promoting a strong sense of collaboration and camaraderie both in the office and outside of work. The firm’s dedication to learning and growth, with a focus on mentorship at all levels, has empowered me to expand my skills and take on new challenges.”
Jessica Li
Vice President, Principal Investments
Our people are our most important asset, and we take professional development and performance seriously. The performance of our employees is evaluated in our semi-annual Insights process, which guides their performance and helps to ensure that the individual has the right tools and competencies in place to deliver on their key priorities and development areas. For people leaders, we have a number of initiatives in place to secure inspirational and authentic leadership. Additionally, we have programmes that specifically target leaders within the life sciences as well as board excellence courses.
Employee engagement
To ensure that our organisation meets the expectations of our colleagues, we conduct an annual employee engagement survey that measures employees’ views on topics such as well-being, workload, values and purpose. In 2023, the average ranking for employee engagement was 95% compared with a global benchmark of 81%. Employees highlighted factors such as respect and inclusion, mission and values, and company culture as notable qualities in their work life at Novo Holdings.
In 2024, our Boston office was named Best Place to Work by the Boston Business Journal. In this employee-led survey, Novo Holdings stood out for its purpose-driven and collaborative workplace, and employee benefits package.
Health and wellbeing
We believe that mental and physical wellbeing go hand in hand with a rewarding career. Employees benefit from several offers that support a healthy lifestyle, including reimbursement of expenses related to physical exercise, health insurance programmes, health check-ups and more.
Employees’ mental health is a priority, and at Novo Holdings we make every effort to support employees in maintaining emotional well-being. Our approach involves careful training of people managers and a range of treatment- and recreational offers designed to prevent or address emotional challenges.
Our recruitment process
Our recruitment process combines virtual and in-person interviews, as well as work-related case studies.
What we look for
We recruit candidates from diverse backgrounds and with varied levels of expertise, and we place emphasis on:
Motivation to work at the frontier of life science and green transition investing
Investment and asset allocation acumen
A strong work ethic that is aligned with our ethos of high performance with respect and responsibility.
“We offer a purpose-driven, high performing workplace in which our colleagues thrive, are challenged, and have opportunities to develop to their full potential.”
Petrina Knowles Gjelstrup
Chief People Officer