Location: Home based - EMEA
Our Talent Science team ensures that we follow an objective, scientifically rigorous and efficient process to select the very best new colleagues regardless of location, culture or background. With a data centric approach, we examine hiring data to create talent analytics and business intelligence to fuel our decision making on hiring. We leverage data to enable evidence-based decisions, weaving behavioural science throughout our selection process.
Working closely with our Hiring Leadership team, who ultimately lead on hiring, our team ensures that hiring decisions are being made in the right way and that our hiring model supports the selection of world class talent.
We are looking for a set of leaders to support our team growth and to help drive our strategic objective outcomes. This role will report directly to the Global Head of Talent Science.
To be successful you will bring:
Analytical tooling to coach and lead the team
Experience of leading roadmaps and projects
Experience of leading others to achieve exceptional results
Location:
These are remote based positions that are available across the globe.
The role entails
Leading a team to deliver against a set of strategic objectives, with focus on product design and implementation of our roadmap.
Cracking the code on hiring, connecting performance outcomes back to selection methods to ensure we identify and progress exceptional talent.
Designing professional processes and frameworks, allowing efficient delivery of our agenda.
Coaching and mentoring team members to grow and develop skill sets specifically around analytical capabilities and thought leadership, developing training materials and documentation to support team members.
Driving and representing the team in the absence of the Head of, acting as a credible and trusted adviser and an inspiring leader.
Working closely with company leaders to understand, appreciate and communicate our vision for talent at Canonical.
What we are looking for in you
Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university, with an undergraduate degree in a people based subject.
7+ years experience in a Talent function, with a deep appreciation of recruitment and selection and analytics that drive decision making.
Proven analytical ability to dissect and analyse data using SQL. Alternatively use Python, R, SPSS, or, possess the ability to run lookups, indexing, matching formulae with an appetite to learn SQL.
Exposure to BI tools (Superset is our platform).
Exemplary ability to lead and drive others to deliver, including exceptional project management and coaching to lead roadmap execution and delivery.
Exceptional written and spoken English with strong presentation skills for a senior audience.
Sincere personal motivation aligned with our mission.
International travel 2-4 times a year for company events up to two weeks long.
In addition we expect that you will match our values, by being:
Precise, taking care to deliver correctness and clarity.
Reliable, delivering high quality work that builds trust and confidence.
Accessible, collaborating to build products and systems that are usable.
Adroit, blending enthusiasm, knowledge, adaptability, style and character.
Nice-to-have skills
Advanced psychometric skills.
A deep understanding of human behaviour, in particular intrinsic motivation.
Experience of using Superset and/or Greenhouse
What we offer colleagues
We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We assess performance and revisit compensation twice annually to ensure we recognize outstanding colleagues. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per year
Bi-annual compensation review
Company recognition rewards
40 days annual leave per annum, including public holidays and our All Company holiday periods
Maternity and paternity leave
Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues, with Priority Pass for lounge access
About Canonical
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. We are founder-led, profitable, and growing.
Powered by worldwide distributed collaboration since our inception in 2024, we believe tech and business leadership can emerge anywhere. We have no central headquarters. Most of us work from home, but we are exceptionally disciplined about this. We have very high expectations of all colleagues, and are champions of excellence. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products.
Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
Location: Home based - EMEA
As a pioneer remote-first tech company with a product that inspires people globally, we attract a huge number of applicants to our organisation. We have created a hiring process that is totally unique empowering our business based Hiring Leadership team to lead talent selection. Our Talent Science team ensures that our processes are effective and that the business is able to make the best decisions to select exceptional talent. This is an exceptional opportunity to join a team that is changing the way an organisation hires.
Our Talent Science team has a mission to ensure that we follow objective, scientifically rigorous and efficient processes to select the very best new colleagues regardless of location, culture or background. We work closely with our key stakeholders to ensure that decisions are being made in the right way and that our hiring model supports the selection of world class talent, regardless of location, culture or background.
As a Talent Scientist, you will work closely with these Hiring Leads to drive initiatives, automation and best practice whilst offering an expert viewpoint on talent assessments. This is not a recruiter position; it's about the science of talent and performance, raising awareness and insights across the business so that they are able to select the best talent available from our global talent pool.
We have a number of mid-senior level openings in our team seeking the following:
Passion and drive to embed scientific approaches that deliver impact on how an organisation selects talent.
Strong behavioural interviewing techniques (competency based and psychometric assessments).
Excellent analytical problem solving ability to identify trends and patterns using SQL, statistical analysis or Python, BI tooling, etc.
An exceptional academic background including a Bachelors or Masters degree in a Psychology based subject.
A high level of personal organisation to work remotely and be effective.
Location: This is a remote position based in the EMEA region
What your day will look like
As a Talent Scientist you will:
Drive talent analytics to provide our business with real-time insight, partnering with the business to help them move through their hiring processes efficiently.
Conduct in-depth behavioural talent interviews providing considerable insights into motivations and behaviours.
Build key relationships with global stakeholders to ensure we deliver against our hiring agenda, closely monitoring hiring activities, driving results and ensuring that there is consistency in our operational processes.
Drive data driven insights, making sure our decision making process is robust and supportive to inform our decisions.
Consider our employer brand and how our interactions with a candidate impacts their experience.
Review and streamline hiring processes and tools to drive continuous improvement.
Work with external third parties and platforms to ensure we maximise our return on investment.
Bring a passion for diversity and inclusion, ensuring we remove unconscious bias from our hiring process and ensuring our sourcing strategy underpins this.
What we are looking for in you
An exceptional academic background from high school and university, with a Bachelors or Masters degree in a Psychology based subject.
Experience of hiring talent in the technology or consulting industry.
A highly data drive mindset with the ability to create measurable outcomes.
Passionate about how an organisation selects talent using scientific approaches with viewpoint on how to predict and measure hiring outcomes.
Strong analytical problem solving ability to identify trends and patterns using SQL, with Python and/or advanced statistical analysis preferable.
Exposure/appreciation of psychometric assessments, including interpretation.
Experience of conducting behavioural, competency based interviews with the ability to train stakeholders and advise on how to get the best out of an interview.
A high level of personal organisation and self drive to work remotely and be effective.
Willingness to travel to company events 2-4 times a year, for up to two weeks each.
Other skills you may bring
Experience in sourcing and headhunting with the ability to teach our senior leadership team how to hunt for industry leaders.
Experience in statistical significance testing and experience in Bayesian inference and/or predictive analytics and ML.
Exposure to the following tools: LinkedIn Talent Insights, Greenhouse, DISC profiling, Superset.
Psychometric validity and reliability metrics.
What we offer you
We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Annual compensation review
Recognition rewards
Annual holiday leave
Maternity and paternity leave
Employee Assistance Programme
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
About Canonical
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products.
Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
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