Head of Talent Development

Canonical; Salamanca; A distancia; USD 60.000 - 100.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Join a pioneering tech firm as the Head of Talent Development, where you will shape the future of workplace practices in a globally distributed environment. This role offers the chance to lead a new team dedicated to enhancing leadership and management practices, ensuring success in a remote-first setting. With a focus on innovative training and analytics, you will drive impactful change across the organization. This is an exciting opportunity to influence the development of talent in a forward-thinking company that values diversity and inclusion while fostering a collaborative culture.

Servicios

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 Program & Wellness Platform

Opportunities to travel and meet colleagues

Priority Pass for travel upgrades

Formación

• Experience in remote tech company management.
• Ability to lead and execute strategy effectively.

Responsabilidades

• Define and implement a comprehensive talent development program.
• Develop management and leadership programs within a remote organization.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Organizational Skills

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving

People Management

Educación

Exceptional Academic Record

Descripción del empleo

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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is 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.

We are building a Talent Development function that is future-focused and driven to define the future of the workplace within a global, growing open source software company, pioneers in remote-first collaboration and employment.

This is an opportunity for a person with outstanding leadership, organization, and intellect, to build our Talent Development team to enhance our leadership and people management practices in our remote setting. We are now 1,200+ colleagues across 75+ countries. We aim to create a new team to focus on Talent Development—to deepen our insights and effectiveness as a remote-first and globally distributed organization.

We know that being effective remotely requires discipline and good habits, and we would like to invest in research to understand that, along with training, policymaking, and selection mechanisms that ensure consistency of behaviors. We want to understand what makes a distributed, remote-first workplace successful. While we've been remote-first for nearly 20 years, we recognize there's still much to learn, and the frontier of possibility continues to expand. We plan to invest in research, analytics, and tooling to elevate remote collaboration, organization, and leadership. Most importantly, we aim to invest in training and multi-directional communications to ensure our leadership team maintains consistent expectations, drives desired behaviors, and embeds effective management practices across the company.

This role is the fourth remaining Lead role in our People function, a cross-disciplinary group of organizational psychologists, engineers, analytics experts, talent scientists, and employee relations specialists. We recruit globally, believing in bringing in outstanding colleagues in a fearless, global manner. Our goal with the Talent Development team is to lead leaders toward clarity on our identity, operations, and evolution over time.

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

The role entails:

1. Define and implement an inspiring and comprehensive talent development program.
2. Develop, drive, and embed effective management and leadership development programs within our remote organization.
3. Design and deliver core training programs, partnering with specialist vendors where appropriate.
4. Create and implement leadership performance indicators and metrics.
5. Own our leadership skills matrix for performance management, talent assessment, succession planning, mentorship, virtual learning, and career development.
6. Set up a global learning framework for training and career fulfillment.
7. Build and manage a new team of Talent Development specialists.
8. Utilize data to understand trends, strategize, and define career development frameworks.
9. Own and enhance the impact of the learning budget.

What we are looking for in you:

1. An exceptional academic record from high school onwards.
2. Insight and experience in what makes people successful in a globally remote tech company at the management level.
3. Strong perspective on the conditions and practices that create high-performing teams.
4. Ability to create, lead, and execute strategy, and drive change across a company.
5. Strong business acumen, balancing strategy with execution.
6. Analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience in measuring the impact of development programs.
7. People management experience and budget accountability.
8. Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events.

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 recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide additional benefits reflecting our values and ideals, ensuring fairness globally.

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints
• 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 Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunities to travel and meet colleagues in new locations
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

About Canonical:

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm leading the global shift to open source. As the publisher of Ubuntu, a key open-source project and platform for AI, IoT, and cloud, we are transforming software. We recruit globally and uphold high standards for new hires. Most colleagues have worked remotely since our inception in 2004. Working at Canonical is a future-oriented challenge that encourages innovative thinking, smarter work, skill development, and continuous improvement.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer:

We foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds enhances our environment and products. We consider all applications fairly, regardless of your identity.

Seniority level: Executive

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Human Resources, Software Development

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