Talent Acquisition Strategist

Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

THE ROLE ENTAILS

• Leading and delivering the strategic Talent Science project roadmap using exceptional project management capability and influencing skills to manage multiple projects at any given time.
• Leveraging expertise from your career to date to design and implement solutions to complex problems that ultimately ensure we hire exceptional talent.
• Ensuring all talent selection initiatives map to high performance outcomes and career frameworks.
• 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 psychology or people based subject.
• A track record of team leadership in a talent function from the technology or consulting industry, with exceptional project management, to lead roadmap execution and delivery.
• Deep understanding of talent selection, with a technological mindset to create automation's and products to drive hiring efficiencies.
• Advanced analytical ability to dissect and analyse data, using either SQL, Python and/or statistical analysis.
• Exceptional written and spoken English with strong presentation skills for a senior audience.
• Ability to travel internationally 2-4 times a year for company events.

NICE-TO-HAVE SKILLS

• Advanced psychometric assessments with an excellent understanding of the marketplace and vendors
• A deep understanding of human behaviour and what drives intrinsic motivation
• Experience of using Superset and advanced dashboarding

WHAT WE OFFER COLLEAGUES

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 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 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 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. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

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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