Talent Scientist Full-time Job

As a Talent Scientist you will:

Drive talent analytics to provide our business with real-time insight, partnering with the business to help them move through their hiring processes efficiently.

Conduct in-depth behavioural talent interviews providing considerable insights into motivations and behaviours.

Build 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

Drive data driven insights, making sure our decision making process is robust and supportive to inform our decisions.

Consider our employer brand and how our interactions with a candidate impacts their experience

Review and streamline hiring processes and tools to drive continuous improvement.

Work with external third parties and platforms to ensure we maximise our return on investment.

Bring a passion for diversity and inclusion, ensuring we remove unconscious bias from our hiring process and ensuring our sourcing strategy underpins this.

What we are looking for in you

An exceptional academic background including a Bachelors or Masters degree in a Psychology based subject

Strong analytical problem solving ability to identify trends and patterns using R or Python, SQL, statistical analysis, BI tooling etc.

Exposure/appreciation of psychometric assessments, including interpretation.

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 demonstrative viewpoint on talent, with a deep appreciation of how to predict and measure success of people.

Passionate about how an organisation selects talent using scientific approaches.

A high level of personal organisation to work remotely and be effective.

Willingness to travel to company events 2-4 times a year, for up to two weeks each.

We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company.We're also the publishers of Ubuntu, the worlds most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000+ contributors. Ubuntu means 'humanity to others'. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation.Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers.Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation - this is the future of open source, which is why we're proud to be the developers of the fastest growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.If you're interested in a career at Canonical, we are a remote-first company so please apply to any suitable role as skills are valued more than location, despite some having a preferred geographic preference.