Talent Analytics Manager at Canonical

Your role will include:

• Leading a team to deliver an analytical roadmap of projects (Prediction of performance outcomes, advancing psychometric approaches, driving automation on our platforms) using innovative and scalable solutions to hiring as we go through a period of significant growth.
• Act as a partner to our senior stakeholders bringing exceptional analytics to our hiring process with a point of view to how an organisation builds a culture of exceptional talent.
• Use advanced data driven analytical approaches to solve problems and innovate.

Location: EMEA - Home based
What your day will look like
In this role you will:

• Lead a team of data driven analytical talent experts who are responsible for ensuring that our hiring teams are able to select game changing talent.
• Lead and drive deep analytical and data backed approaches to projects that enable us to develop our hiring processes and outcomes, including statistical significance testing, Bayesian inference and/or predictive analytics and ML and tools such as SQL/Python/R.
• Bring an expert point of view talent assessment discovering the attributes that drive ultimate job success, reviewing our assessment effectiveness to drive continuous improvement.
• Passionately conduct in-depth behavioral interviews providing considerable insights into motivations and behaviours of candidates as part of our interview process.
• Build key relationships with global Hiring Leadership stakeholders to drive our hiring agenda.
• Be seen as a thought leader on talent initiatives with an inherent belief that past performance predicts future success.

What we are looking for in you

• An undergraduate or postgraduate degree in psychology/industrial psychology, or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path, together with an exceptional academic track record throughout your education years.
• Proven management experience inspiring and leading talent teams to deliver against strategic hiring initiatives.
• Excellent project management skills to lead roadmaps, including driving efficiency and delivering results.
• Exceptional analytical skills to examine data and identify patterns, trends and behaviours: statistical significance testing, Bayesian inference and/or predictive analytics and ML and tools such as SQL/Python/R.
• Experience of using and interpreting psychometric assessments to examine candidate drivers.
• A thought leader in the talent space with the ability to influence best practice, bringing a solid point of how to build a high performance organisation.
• Proven ability of working with senior stakeholders to drive a professional outlook on hiring talent as well as challenge the status quo.
• A sense of urgency with results driven approaches to deliver business critical projects
• Willingness to travel internationally up to 4 times a year for internal team and company events.

Other Skills You May Bring

• Experience on building data dashboards.
• Exposure to the following tools: LinkedIn Recruiter and Talent Insights, Greenhouse, DISC profiling/Thomas International.