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Posted Jul 11, 2025Executive Search Lead - Technology
at Canonical
On-site
Responsibilities
- Building key relationships with global stakeholders to ensure we deliver against our hiring agenda, closely monitoring hiring activities, driving results and ensuring that there is consistency in our operational processes
Requirements
- Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT.
- Experience of identifying and approaching senior leadership talent from either a professional search firm or from an in-house search function, working within the Technology industry.
- Strong analytical problem solving ability to identify trends and patterns from data, with SQL or Python.
- Driving talent analytics to provide our business with real-time insight, using SQL or Python to identify trends in data.
- experience of headhunting from a reputable executive search firm or in-house search function, with an informed opinion of strategies and
- experience of successfully sourcing senior talent in the Technology industry.
- Strong analytical problem solving ability to identify trends and patterns from data using SQL or Python, with proficiency in LinkedIn talent modules.. •
- Experience of conducting behavioural, competency based interviews with the ability to train stakeholders and advise on how to get the best out of an interview.
- 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.
- A high level of personal organisation to work remotely and be effective.
- Experience of more advanced analytical and statistical analysis to interrogate 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 on a daily basis.
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.