hr
Posted Jul 15, 2025HR Generalist
at Canonical
Home Based Americas, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Ensure accuracy and timeliness in processing employee changes, joiners and leavers.
- Manage and drive benefit programs spanning either our EMEA (UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Spain) or AMER (US, Canada and Brazil) locations
- Support the full life-cycle of HR including onboarding, benefit administration, and departure.
- Produce data driven reports to inform and influence HR initiatives.
- Lead and participate in projects where you’ll see the impact of your work.
- Support internal resource groups to drive initiatives such as diversity and inclusion.
- Create, update and maintain corporate policies that have a global lens with local application.
- Ensure consistency of application of our HR policies and procedures.
Requirements
- Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT.
- 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.
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Relevant professional qualification and certifications.
- Self-directed, organised problem solver with the ability to prioritise and meet goals and deadlines.
- Demonstrated ability to exercise discretion, sound judgement, tact and diplomacy in all communications.
- 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.
Benefits
- 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.