Executive Search Lead - Technology
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Job description
A Talent Scientist role in Canonical's Talent Science team, focused on teaching senior executives how to source senior leadership talent and on driving talent analytics. The team oversees the hiring process and provides expert insight on talent assessments rather than acting as recruiters.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA
What you'll do
- Developing a search strategy for our business, ensuring processes enable headhunted talent to move smoothly through the pipeline
- Coaching our senior leadership teams to drive hiring outcomes, enabling them to become expert at approaching and attracting exceptional talent for their management and leadership positions
- Driving talent analytics to provide our business with real-time insight, using SQL or Python to identify trends in data
- Conducting in-depth behavioural talent interviews providing considerable insights into motivations and behaviours
- Building 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
- Seeking continuous improvement on hiring processes and outcomes
- Bringing a passion for diversity and inclusion, ensuring we remove unconscious bias from our hiring process and ensuring our sourcing strategy underpins this
What we're looking for
- Professional experience of headhunting from a reputable executive search firm or in-house search function, with an informed opinion of strategies and experience of successfully sourcing senior talent in the Technology industry
- Exposure or appreciation of psychometric assessments
- Strong analytical problem solving ability to identify trends and patterns from data using SQL or Python, with proficiency in LinkedIn talent modules
- 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
- An exceptional academic background including a Bachelors or Masters degree in a Psychology or people based subject and a good level of Maths from High School
- A high level of personal organisation to work remotely and be effective
- Willingness to travel to company events 2-4 times a year, for up to two weeks each
Nice to have
- Experience of more advanced analytical and statistical analysis to interrogate data
- Exposure to the following tools: Greenhouse ATS, Thomas International and DISC profiling
- Psychometric validity and reliability metrics
Your team
Talent Science
A team with 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.
Benefits
- 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
- Performance-driven annual bonus
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About Canonical
A pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. 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. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles.
Mission
To be at the forefront of the global move to open source, changing the world on a daily basis through Ubuntu, the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud.
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open source software and operating systems
- 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries
- Remote-first company since its inception in 2004
- Founder led and profitable
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
- Publishes Ubuntu
What they value
- Excellence
- Diversity and inclusion
- Fairness globally
- Continuous improvement