Talent Scientist - Graduate Lead

Talent Scientist - Graduate Lead at Canonical

Location: remote position based in the EMEA region

What your day will look like

• Build effective partnerships with leading academic institutions to raise awareness of our graduate opportunities.
• Create a highly effective proposition to inspire top talent to apply to Canonical.
• Drive talent analytics to provide the business with real time insight, partnering with the business to help them move through their hiring processes efficiently.
• Conduct in-depth behavioural talent interviews providing considerable insights into motivations and behaviours.
• Build key relationships with global stakeholders to ensure we deliver against our hiring agenda, closely monitoring hiring activities, driving results and ensuring consistency in our operational processes.
• Drive data driven insights, making sure our decision making process is robust and supportive to inform our decisions.
• Consider our employer brand and how our interactions with a candidate impacts their experience.
• Review and streamline hiring processes and tools to drive continuous improvement.
• Work with external third parties and platforms to ensure we maximise our return on investment.
• Bring a passion for diversity and inclusion, ensuring we remove unconscious bias from our hiring process and that our sourcing strategy underpins this.

What we are looking for in you

• An exceptional academic background from high school and university, with a Bachelors or Masters degree in Psychology or a People based subject.
• Experience of hiring talent in the technology industry, with an informed viewpoint on graduate hiring.
• A highly data driven mindset with the ability to create measurable outcomes, using SQL.
• Passionate about how an organisation selects talent using scientific approaches with a viewpoint on how to predict and measure hiring outcomes.
• Exposure to psychometric assessments preferable, including interpretation.
• Experience conducting behavioural, competency based interviews with the ability to train stakeholders and advise on how to get the best out of an interview.
• Experience with tools such as Greenhouse, LinkedIn, Superset, Thomas International/DISC assessments.
• A high level of personal organisation and self drive to work remotely and be effective.
• Willingness to travel to company events 2-4 times a year, for up to two weeks each.

What we offer you

• 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, including lounge access, for company travel.

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. It publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud.

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.