Organisational Development Associate
Job description
An early-career Organisational Development Associate role in Canonical's Talent Development team, embedded in real teams to run diagnostics, drive improvement projects and support managers with 360 feedback. It is a fast-path development role toward running organisational development work independently.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA, Americas
- Languages
- English – business level
What you'll do
- Being embedded inside a real team: see how it works day to day, and surface what is and isn't working.
- Running the diagnostics on a team's health and management effectiveness (engagement, 360, direct feedback), and turning the evidence into a clear, honest read.
- Owning an improvement end to end: a concrete change to how a team works that you design, drive and land, with a senior practitioner alongside you.
- Supporting managers in delivering effective 360 performance feedback to individuals and helping them turn it into two or three real commitments they follow through on.
- Helping build the playbook: the standards, tools and shared language the whole function runs on.
- Learning coaching and organisational development directly from senior practitioners, on a fast, visible path to running this work yourself.
What we're looking for
- A track record of leading and organising early, in a startup, a student society, the military, a team, anywhere.
- A deliberate pull toward developing people and organisations, with a real grounding in organisational or industrial psychology, behavioural science or a comparable basis.
- Drive and eagerness to learn, with your own ideas and the confidence to challenge, and hunger to be coached and to grow fast.
- The presence to sit across from experienced people and talk about change with confidence.
- An exceptional academic track record from high school and university.
- Up to around two years of experience since graduating.
- Business level written and spoken English.
- Organised, accurate, confident, authentic, results-oriented, and enthusiastic.
- Sincere personal motivation aligned with our mission.
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events.
- Precise, taking care to deliver correctness and clarity.
- Reliable, delivering high quality work that builds trust and confidence.
- Accessible, collaborating to build products and systems that are usable.
- Adroit, blending enthusiasm, knowledge, adaptability, style and character.
Nice to have
- Any exposure to people, organisational, coaching or consulting work, through study, an internship or a first job.
- A genuine interest in the craft of management and organisations, not just the subject matter.
- Comfort working with data.
Your team
Talent Development
Exists to make leaders and managers at Canonical genuinely excellent; defines what great management looks like and puts that standard into the hands of managers and leaders across the company.
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person.
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
- Annual compensation review.
- Recognition rewards.
- Annual holiday leave.
- Maternity and paternity leave.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues.
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.
- Performance-driven annual bonus.
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About Canonical
A leading provider of open source software and operating systems
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Its platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles.
Mission
Canonical builds the open-source software that runs the world's clouds, devices and AI.
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open source software and operating systems
- Publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud
- 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries
- Very few office based roles; most colleagues have worked from home since its inception in 2004
- Founder led, profitable and growing
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
What they value
- Precise
- Reliable
- Accessible
- Adroit