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Posted Jul 11, 2025Executive Search Lead - Technology
at Canonical
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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.
- 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 Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
Additional details
- 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.
- As a pioneer global remote-first tech company with a product that inspires people globally, we attract a huge number of applicants to our organisation.
- We have created a hiring process that is totally unique empowering our business based Hiring Leadership team to lead talent selection.
- Our Talent Science team ensures that our processes are effective and that the business is able to hire high performing talent.
- This is an exceptional opportunity to join a team that is changing the way an organisation hires connecting performance outcomes to hiring.
- Our Talent Science team has a mission to ensure that we follow objective, scientifically rigorous and efficient processes to select the very best new colleagues regardless of location, culture or background.