Jobs at Canonical

• We have an open Manager level position that will report directly into the Global Head of Talent Science. We are looking for an experienced talent leader that have driven world class talent initiatives using analytical approaches. You will lead a team of experienced behavioural talent scientists and be able to inspire and influence our senior leaders across the business. We are looking for an exceptional people manager who bring excellent project management skills to ensure our projects and roadmaps are delivered on time.

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

• Lead a team of data driven behavioural experts, responsible for ensuring that our leadership teams are selecting game changing talent for our organisation.
• Drive deep analytics that impact the decisions we make when assessing talent in the Tech industry.
• 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.
• Conduct in-depth behavioral talent interviews providing considerable insights into motivations and behaviours of talent.
• Review our assessment effectiveness to drive continuous improvement.
• Ensure our Employer branding and DEI initiatives support and drive an inclusive environment for our people.

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.
• Strong analytical mindset with solid evidence of using data to answer problems/questions to drive change (ability to use SQL/Python/R a plus, but not essential).
• Management experience overseeing data driven experts in the talent field including managing projects that drive efficiency and deliver results, ideally from in the Technology space.
• 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.
• Experience of running and providing stakeholder training talent topics such as competency based interviews and sourcing.
• Experience of interpreting psychometric assessments with a deep belief that motivations and behaviours are as important as technical domain skills.
• Proven ability of working with senior stakeholders to drive a professional outlook on hiring talent as well as challenge the status quo.
• Passionate about employer branding, candidate experience, DEI.
• Experience of successful configuration of hiring tools that enable the selection process.
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events.

Other Skills You May Bring

• Experience in statistical significance testing and experience in Bayesian inference and/or predictive analytics and ML.
• Experience on building data dashboards.
• Exposure to the following tools: Jira, LinkedIn Talent Insights, Greenhouse, DISC profiling.

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• Support analytics and data mining in a cross-disciplinary team of organisational psychologists, web front end engineers, back end engineers and statistics / analytics experts to help us build a new definition for the 21st century digital workplace. Collaborate to figure out what really drives productivity, effectiveness and happiness in a remote-first globally distributed company.
• In addition to your existing people analytics work experience, this role will combine your skills in psychology, data analytics and visualisation, to help create a more effective workplace.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the AMER region.
All applicants applying must be legally authorized to work in the location they want to work in, as we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this job position.
What your day will look like

• Utilize advanced data analytics to understand how we hire and how we work (productivity, happiness and effectiveness) across a global, remote first organisation
• Focus on quantitative and qualitative data analytics to find insights and meaningful business outcomes
• Tell the story from the insights through dashboards, visualizations and presentations
• Design and conduct research into trends shaping talent science and remote work
• Collaborate with stakeholder teams (ex., engineering, information systems, etc) to improve the data and tool ecosystem supporting our digital workplace

What we are looking for in you

• Background in data science, mathematics, actuarial science, or engineering
• First work experience in People Analytics is an asset
• Knowledge in advanced statistics, data sciences, coding/scripting languages (Python, R, etc), and databases (SQL, etc)
• Strength in data analytics and visualization (Looker Studio, Tableau, etc)
• Ability to translate business questions to key research objectives
• Ability to identify the best methodology to execute research, synthesize and analyse findings
• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Willingness to examine the status quo and resilient in the face of challenges

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• Our team is looking to hire a Manager to lead a group of Talent Scientists whose quest it is to best predict performance outcomes. This role will report directly to the Global Head of Talent Science.

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.