Executive Search Lead

Canonical Group Ltd; Emea; Hybrid; IDR 1.477.104.000 - 2.133.596.000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is looking for a seasoned search leader to set up a new team function. The role involves teaching senior executives how to source talent for leadership roles, coaching leadership teams, and conducting behavioral interviews. With a remote-first culture, this position offers an opportunity to work with a diverse, global team committed to excellence. Competitive compensation and development opportunities are provided.

Benefits

Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year

Performance-driven annual bonus

Annual holiday leave

Maternity and paternity leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Professional experience in headhunting senior talent, ideally in Tech.
• Ability to influence and lead senior stakeholders.
• Exceptional academic background including solid Math skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop search strategies ensuring smooth talent pipelines.
• Coach leadership teams to improve hiring outcomes.
• Drive talent analytics for real-time hiring insights.
• Conduct thorough behavioural talent interviews.

Skills

Headhunting senior talent

Training others in search strategies

Behavioural interviewing

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Psychology or related field

Tools

Greenhouse ATS

Thomas International profiling

DISC profiling

Job description

Overview

Canonical is a leading tech company and pioneer of global remote-first collaboration, known for open source software and Ubuntu. We operate with a distributed team across 75+ countries and a policy of remote-first work. This is a unique opportunity with our Talent Science team to hire high-performing talent using objective, rigorous processes that connect performance outcomes to hiring.

Our Talent Science team partners with the business to oversee the hiring process and promote best practice, offering deep analytical insights into talent assessments. We are not recruiters; our focus is the science of talent and performance to enable selection of the best talent from our global pool.

We have a brand new opportunity for a seasoned search leader to set up a new team function. Your role will be to teach our senior executives how to source talent for open senior leadership positions. Location: EMEA - Home based.

Responsibilities

• 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 real-time insight, partnering with the business to help them move through their hiring processes efficiently.
• Conducting in-depth behavioural talent interviews providing considerable insights into motivations and behaviours.
• Building key relationships with global stakeholders to ensure they deliver against their headcount plans, closely monitoring their hiring performance and outcomes.
• 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 are looking for in you

• Professional experience of headhunting senior talent in the Tech industry, either from a reputable executive search firm or in-house.
• An informed opinion of search and approach strategies that deliver results.
• Experience of training others to search for leadership level talent, with the ability to influence and lead senior stakeholders.
• Experience of conducting and training on behavioural, competency based interviewing.
• 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.
• Strong appreciation of the talent tooling marketplace, including knowledge of changing AI lead platforms.
• 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.

Other skills you may bring

• Knowledge of Greenhouse ATS, Thomas International and DISC profiling.
• Results that have focused on connecting candidate assessments to performance outcomes.

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. 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 pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.