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Head of Talent Development

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Canonical

Feb 20

  • Job
    Full-time
    Expert Level
  • Consulting
    People, HR & Administration
  • Dresden
    Remote

AI generated summary

  • You need a strong academic background, experience in remote tech management, team-building insight, strategic leadership skills, business acumen, analytical problem-solving abilities, and people management experience.
  • You will design and implement talent development programs, lead management training, create metrics for performance, manage a team, analyze data for career frameworks, and oversee the learning budget.

Requirements

  • An exceptional academic track record from High school and beyond
  • Possess insight and experience on what makes people successful in a globally remote tech company at the management level.
  • Demonstrated experience with strong insight and perspective on the key conditions and practices that create high performing teams
  • Ability to create, lead and execute strategy, and drive change across a company
  • Strong business acumen with the ability to balance strategy with execution
  • Analytical and problem solving skills, for data driven decision making with particular experience in measurement of the impact of development programmes
  • Experience in people management and being accountable for a budget
  • Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Responsibilities

  • Define and implement an inspiring and comprehensive talent development program
  • Develop, drive and embed effective programs of management and leadership development within our remote organisation
  • Design and deliver core training programs, partnering with specialist vendors where appropriate
  • Create and implement leadership performance indicators and metrics
  • Own our leadership skills matrix for performance management, talent assessment, succession planning, mentorship, virtual learning and career development
  • Set up a global learning framework for training and career fulfillment
  • Build and manage a new team of Talent Development specialists
  • Take a data focused lens to understand trends to strategise and define career development frameworks
  • Own and enhance the impact of the learning budget

FAQs

What is the primary role of the Head of Talent Development at Canonical?

The Head of Talent Development is responsible for defining and implementing a comprehensive talent development program, enhancing leadership and people management practices, and building a new team focused on talent development within a globally distributed remote organization.

Is this position remote or in-office?

This role is based remotely in the EMEA region.

What are the key responsibilities of this role?

Key responsibilities include designing and delivering management and leadership development programs, creating performance indicators for leadership, managing a team of Talent Development specialists, and analyzing data to inform career development frameworks.

What qualifications are required for this position?

Candidates should have an exceptional academic track record, insight into management success in a remote tech company, experience in developing high-performing teams, and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

How often would the Head of Talent Development need to travel?

The Head of Talent Development would need to be willing to travel up to four times a year for internal events.

What type of work environment does Canonical offer?

Canonical offers a distributed work environment with opportunities for in-person team sprints twice a year.

What benefits are provided to employees?

Benefits include a personal learning and development budget, annual compensation review, recognition rewards, holiday leave, maternity/paternity leave, an Employee Assistance Program, and opportunities for travel to meet colleagues.

How does Canonical approach compensation?

Compensation is shaped by geographical location, experience, and performance, with annual reviews to recognize outstanding performance and a performance-driven annual bonus or commission.

What is Canonical's stance on diversity and inclusion?

Canonical is proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination and promotes diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds as essential to creating a better work environment and better products.

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Canonical

Enterprise open source, secured and delivered by the publisher of Ubuntu.

Technology
Industry
501-1000
Employees
2004
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Canonical is a technology company known for developing and supporting Ubuntu, a popular open-source operating system. The company focuses on providing reliable, secure, and cost-effective solutions for cloud computing, IoT, and containers. By leveraging open-source technologies, Canonical aims to enable innovation and digital transformation for businesses and developers worldwide. The company is committed to ensuring high performance and scalability, promoting the adoption of open-source software, and fostering a global community of users and contributors.

Benefits

  • Remote working

    Canonical has been a fully distributed organisation since its origin in 2004. Digital collaboration allows us to enjoy our home environment and work with the best in the world in our domain. We meet each other at least twice per year during in-person sprints to nurture cross-team relationships.

  • We build trust

    Zero commute means more time for the things you enjoy. At the same time, we have very high expectations of commitment and independent execution. We invest in people who are self-driven, motivated and highly organised. We take our responsibility for the most critical elements of open infrastructure very seriously, and we are committed to quality in every aspect of our product and services.

  • We engineer excellence

    We aspire to lead on the global stage. There’s no other way to describe it than hard work, hard challenges and hard competition. You will need to show that you can compete in deeply challenging intellectual fields. Your colleagues are aiming for the top, and they depend on you to set the same standard in your area of responsibility. That’s tough but incredibly satisfying. We value those who take ownership of their area and take opportunities to be exceptional.

  • We travel

    We optimise our team structure for time zone overlap. Collaboration and inspiration takes time to fully develop but leadership at Canonical means building cross-team relationships. We nurture those relationships through regular global summits which bring diverse teams or their leaders together. We host these events around the world to discover great places to explore and appreciate in the process. Team events have taken place in Vancouver, Brugge, New York, Budapest, Orlando, Cape Town, Warsaw, Seoul, Paris, Portland, Lyon, London, Toronto and many more.