Talent Scientist - Graduate Lead

The role

This role focuses on advancing graduate hiring strategy by building partnerships with top ranked universities. You will use data analytics and scientific approaches to assess junior talent and provide insights to the business.

What you will do

• Build effective partnerships with leading academic institutions
• Create a highly effective proposition to inspire top talent to apply
• Drive talent analytics to provide real-time insight to the business
• Conduct in-depth behavioural talent interviews
• Build key relationships with global stakeholders to deliver against the hiring agenda
• Drive data driven insights to inform decision making
• Consider employer brand and candidate experience
• Review and streamline hiring processes and tools
• Work with external third parties and platforms
• Ensure sourcing strategy removes unconscious bias

Required qualifications

• Exceptional academic background from both high school and university
• Bachelors or Masters degree in a Psychology or People based subject
• Experience of hiring talent in the technology industry
• Informed viewpoint on graduate hiring
• Highly data drive mindset with the ability to create measurable outcomes using SQL
• Experience of conducting behavioural, competency based interviews
• Ability to train stakeholders and advise on how to get the best out of an interview
• High level of personal organisation and self drive to work remotely
• Willingness to travel to company events 2-4 times a year, for up to two weeks each

Nice to have

• Exposure/appreciation of psychometric assessments including interpretation
• Experience of Greenhouse
• Experience of LinkedIn
• Experience of Superset
• Experience of Thomas International/DISC assessments

Benefits

• 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
• Performance-driven annual bonus

About the company

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm that publishes Ubuntu. It has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004.