Posted Jul 15, 2025

Graduate HR Generalist - AMER

Home Based Americas, United StatesOn-site

Responsibilities

Create purchase orders for internal departments.
Conduct regular audits of employment files and systems to ensure they are up-to-date, accurate, and GDPR compliant.
Track record of exceptional achievement from high school and graduate studies. Internship

Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT.
We require an HR function that thinks and acts globally. We're looking for a Graduate HR Generalist to offer their expertise to our AMER region.
You must be able to work independently, take a hands-on approach, and interface effectively with professionals at all levels.
You'll need excellent communication, professional and interpersonal skills as well as the ability to function in a proactive, innovative environment.
Maintain our HRIS, ensuring a high degree of accuracy and timeliness in processing all team member changes and new joiners.
experience working in an HR/People team is beneficial, preferably in the Technology industry.
High level of honesty, integrity, and ability to handle confidential data.
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 of software.

Liaise with payroll to guarantee smooth salary payments.
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.
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
Annual compensation review.
Annual holiday leave.
Maternity and paternity leave.

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets.
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.
It's an exciting time to join with the opportunity to help shape and create an HR function for the future. You will demonstrate a high work ethic and the personal confidence to set and defend high expectations of colleagues, counterparts and processes.
We look to HR both to support our colleagues in their personal needs and development, and also to maintain consistently high standards across multiple teams, managers and directors.
Location: This role will be based remotely in the AMER region
Provide HR support by answering team members’ questions and responding to requests regarding their employment and contracts, escalating when necessary.
Requests may include information about the new starter process and onboarding, questions regarding global benefits, employment verifications, and other general inquiries.