Director - Talent Analytics
Job description
A leadership role in Canonical's Talent Science team, reporting to the Global Head of Talent Science, leading a team to deliver strategic objectives focused on product design and implementation of the hiring roadmap. The position is remote and available across the globe.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · Worldwide
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- 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're looking for
- 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
- Analytical tooling to coach and lead the team
- Experience of leading roadmaps and projects
- Experience of leading others to achieve exceptional results
- 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
- Advanced psychometric skills
- A deep understanding of human behaviour, in particular intrinsic motivation
- Experience of using Superset and/or Greenhouse
Your team
Talent Science
Ensures that Canonical follows an objective, scientifically rigorous and efficient process to select the very best new colleagues regardless of location, culture or background, using a data centric approach to examine hiring data and create talent analytics and business intelligence.
Benefits
- 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
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
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About Canonical
A pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source
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. 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.
Key facts
- 2024
- Open source software
- Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT
- We are founder-led, profitable, and growing
- We have no central headquarters
- Most of us work from home
What they value
- Precise
- Reliable
- Accessible
- Adroit